The Most Popular Baby Names of 2021 for Both Boys and Girls (PART ONE)
BY MARISA LASCALA
Jan 8, 2021
Here, we look at the current most popular baby names, along with the trends that will affect baby names in 2021.
Every year, the Social Security Administration releases its list of the most popular baby names in the United States. You can see the top 50 for girls and boys below, but, at the moment, the reigning champs for girls are OLIVIA, EMMA, AVA, SOPHIA and ISABELLA for girls, and LIAM, NOAH, OLIVER, WILLIAM and ELIJAH for boys.
But that was for last year, based on data for 2019. If you want to know what's going to be most popular this year, you have to look at the list of the fastest climbers. Luckily, the SSA keeps track of the names with the biggest jumps in popularity, too. For girls, the hottest risers are AMOURA, THEODORA, NAVY, EMANI and YARITZA; for boys, they're SEKANI (which went up 6,159 places in rank!), ERMIAS, AMIAS, KYRO and AMBROSE. This means that girls' names ending with an -a sound continue to be popular, like the current faves of OLIVIA and EMMA, while boys names ending with -ias, like perennial fave SILAS, are getting even hotter. Names that end in -iel, too, are doing well for boys: The next two chart-climbers for boys are AZIEL and ELIEL.
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For boys, it's names that end with -en sounds. JAXTYN, BRYSEN, COEN, IMRAN, PAYTON and JAXEN are all on the list of names that are losing popularity, along with CHAD, BOWIE and DESHAWN.
For girls, while ending with an -a is popular, beginning one is one the wane: AISLINN, AIYANA, AVALYN, AVAH and ANSLEY are saw some of the biggest drops, in addition to EMMARIE, SANIYAH, TATIANA, ZHAVIA and JAYDEN.
"The hottest among them fall into three distinct categories," the site reports. "Egyptian place names, such as Cairo and Egypt; Italian city names, including Rome and Milan and biblical place names, such as SALEM and ZION." Cities in the United States are becoming popular, too, like ASPEN, BOSTON, DALLAS, DENVER and MEMPHIS.
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