New US Top Baby Names Released 🥳
Happy Baby Name Christmas!
It’s the week we’ve been counting down to all year: the new US baby name data for 2022 are here! Liam and Olivia top the official charts (again), and there’s oh so much going on beneath them.
For the Top 10 boy and girl names, and the biggest risers and fallers of the year, check out our initial analysis — to be followed by much more over the coming weeks and months.
Top 10 Competition Winners
In last week’s newsletter, we asked you to guess the new Top 10 boy and girl names. No one predicted all the names in the right order for both sexes — proving just how hard it is — but seven impressive people got the correct names in a different order.
Big congratulations to Rachel, Shirley, Stephanie, Andrea, Glitterbug, Christian, and Rachel!
They all correctly guessed that Luna would replace Harper in the girls’ Top 10, and all other names would remain the same. It’s a reminder that at the top of the charts, change really does happen very slowly. Even among the Nameberry editors, we all thought there would be a new entry to the Top 10 boys, either Jack or Levi. Maybe next year!
Baby Names 2022: Read More
The best new entries to the Top 1000, including Neriah and Belle, Dutton and Aurelio.
Huge thanks to our forum member Wandarine for finding all the girl debuts and boy debuts that are totally new to the US charts. Standouts include Pluto, Spruce, Cloudy and Prophecy, to name but a few.
Join the conversation about the new stats on the Nameberry forums.
The release of the name data always falls just before Mothers’ Day. If you’re celebrating, have a good one! And we can all appreciate the new generation of Mom Names, aka the top girl names of the 1980s and 90s.
I’m not at all offended to be the 13th fastest-falling name of the year ðŸ˜
I am looking forward to reviewing as I think about the name for my fourth!