The leading website for naming your baby has tallied up the most popular names of the year and
the winners announced today in a media release are Liam and Charlotte for the third year in a row. “Entertainment is influencing baby naming more than ever,”
says BabyNames.com founder, Jennifer Moss. “We’re seeing celebrity names and character names flooding the popularity charts. The name Liam, for
example, started to become popular after the actor Liam Neeson, but then jumped to #1 when Liam Hemsworth came on the scene.”
Parents are also using popular character names from fiction, especially television. Moss says the name Aria/Arya hit the top ten
names for girls after the television shows Pretty Little Liars and Game of Thrones both featured popular characters with that name.
BabyNames.com compiles its name ranking from the site members’ favorite name lists. “We have millions of members that add names to
their favorite name lists each year,” states Moss. “So we can track which names are trending in real time. Our lists often predict the
actual birth name trends by one to two years.”
So what entertainment names are rising fast? According to the BabyNames.com trends, we will be seeing more baby boys named Archer
(Archer), Finnick (The Hunger Games) and Atticus (To Kill a Mockingbird). For girls, watch for Aurora (Sleeping Beauty), Hazel
(The Fault in our Stars), and Piper (Orange is the New Black).
BABYNAMES.COM’S TOP 20 BABY NAMES FOR 2014 include alternate spellings of the same name
Girls Boys
1 Charlotte Liam
2 Amelia Noah
3 Aria Oliver
4 Olivia Ethan
5 Violet Asher
6 Ava Benjamin
7 Sophia Henry
8 Emma Owen
9 Scarlett Caleb
10 Nora Jackson
11 Audrey Grayson
12 Aurora Declan
13 Vivienne Landon
14 Lily Alexander
15 Abigail Levi
16 Chloe Aidan
17 Adalyn Finn
18 Ella Elijah
19 Elizabeth Lucas
20 Alice Gavin