See the hottest names for 2011!

　　Baby names 2010, nameberry style, are a fascinating collection, with Charlotte still at the top of the list for girls. Seraphina and Olivia follow at numbers 2 and 3, as they did at the end of the first quarter.

　　Names making the biggest leap up the list for girls are Harper, Jane, Quinn (influenced, no doubt, by Glee), Clara, Clementine, Ivy (a new entrant to the Top 100), and Bryn.  Other names new to the girls’ list are Juliet, Jillian, and Pearl.

　　Names falling the fastest are Willa, Lydia, Piper, and Lauren. Off the Top 100 this quarter are Bella, Beatrix, Maya, Mila, and Yvaine (though we confess to having to idea how that made it to the most-searched roster last time around).

　　Our Baby Names 2010 Top 100 list is compiled from the most-viewed names on nameberry for the first half of the year. The up and down arrows represent movement up or down the list compared with the first quarter of this year; an equal sign means the name is in the same position as it was first quarter. Double arrows indicate movement of more than fifteen places up or down.

　　Don‘t, however, take the meaning of the arrows too much to heart.  Often they represent movement of only a place or two, and a name’s movement over a single quarter can be influenced by a host of small factors unrelated to a true shift in popularity.

　　Of course, this list is vastly different than the official list of Most Popular Names in the U.S. The Social Security list is based on all actual births and name choices in the country, while the nameberry list measures which names our relatively style-conscious visitors are most curious about. Plus the nameberry list is up-to-the-minute, while the most recent Social Security list is for 2009.

　　Consider this, then, a look at which names will be more popular in the months and years ahead. We got some flack when we issued the quarterly list for calling these “elite” names, but we stand by that characterization. On the premise that nameberry’s visitors are better informed about names and have more discerning name taste than the general population (you do, don’t you?), we see these as names favored by parents who are looking for names with style, class, and staying power.

　　Can a small number of people searching repeatedly for a specific name skew the results? No. We can see not only how many times a name was searched but by how many unique individuals, so to those of you who tried to game our system by searching for Pervis and Gomer: We’re on to you.

　　Here, the Top 100 girls’ names for the first half of 2010. Tomorrow we’ll bring you the boys.

　　girls

　　1. CHARLOTTE =

　　2. SERAPHINA =

　　3. OLIVIA =

　　4. VIOLET up

　　5. ELIZABETH down

　　6. ISLA down

　　7. SOPHIA down

　　8. LAURA up

　　9. CAROLINE up

　　10. AVA =

　　11. ALICE down

　　12. IMOGEN up

　　13. LUCY down

　　14. AMELIA up

　　15. SCARLETT down

　　16. MAISIE down

　　17. GRACE down

　　18. CLAIRE down

　　19. LILY down

　　20. STELLA down

　　21. ADELAIDE up

　　22. HARPER up

　　23. ISABELLA up

　　24. ELLA down

　　25. EMMA up

　　26. ELIZA down

　　27. JANE up

　　28. CHLOE down

　　29. MAEVE down

　　30. QUINN up

　　31. AVERY down

　　32. EVANGELINE down

　　33. CLARA up

　　34. MATILDA down

　　35. RUBY down

　　36. CLEMENTINE up

　　37. AUDREY down

　　38. LILA down

　　39. ZOE down

　　40. SADIE down

　　41. LOLA down

　　42. IVY up*

　　43. PENELOPE up

　　44. ARABELLA down

　　45. ELOISE up

　　46. IRIS down

　　47. BEATRICE up

　　48. SARAH down

　　49. ANNA down

　　50. EVELYN down

　　51. ESME down

　　52. EMILY down

　　53. NORA down

　　54. DELILAH =

　　55. ELEANOR down

　　56. AURORA down

　　57. WILLA down

　　58. MIA down

　　59. HAZEL down

　　60. ROSE down

　　61. GEORGIA down

　　62. MARY up

　　63. CORA down

　　64. MOLLY up

　　65. POPPY down

　　66. LYDIA down

　　67. FIONA down

　　68. HANNAH down

　　69. JOSEPHINE down

　　70. PHOEBE =

　　71. SOPHIE up

　　72. BRYN up

　　73. ADELINE down

　　74. DAISY down

　　75. PIPER down

　　76. COCO up

　　77. WREN down

　　78. MARGARET up

　　79. EMMELINE down

　　80. NATALIE down

　　81. LEAH down

　　82. FLORA up

　　83. ELLIE down

　　84. HARLOW up

　　85. LULU down

　　86. JULIET up*

　　87. JULIA up

　　88. JESSICA down

　　89. SASHA down

　　90. JILLIAN up*

　　91. LAUREN down

　　92. MADELINE down

　　93. GENEVIEVE down

　　94. GEMMA down

　　95. MAE down

　　96. ABIGAIL down

　　97. KATE down

　　98. CELIA down

　　99. PEARL up*

　　100. LOUISA down

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