Girl Names: Our 100 most popular for 2013 (so far)

Oct 31, 2026 5:36 PM

See all the girl names on Nameberry here.

　　There’s a new girl in town, and her name is Imogen — the breakout Number 1 among girl names on Nameberry for the first half of 2013.

　　Imogen unseated longtime favorite Charlotte as our most-viewed girl name so far this year. In third place we have another new entrant to the girl names list, Harper, which we’ve moved over from unisex given that over 90 percent of the babies named Harper are now female.

　　This list of Nameberry’s Top 100 girl names is based on over 8 million views of our name pages for the first half of 2013.

　　Compared with our own baby name popularity list for 2012, the girl names moving up the fastest are Merida, Clementine, Elodie, Eloise, Francine, Everly, Beatrix, Frances, Kinsley, and Ada.

　　This list shows the influence of popular culture, news events, and celebrity on interest in names. Merida was an animated film heroine, while Clementine and Everly were girl names chosen by celebrities and Francine and Frances may be inspired by the new Pope.

　　And we see names in the lower half of the list moving up on the coattails of their more popular sisters: Elodie and Eloise are rising behind Eleanor, for instance, while Mae and Maisie follow Maeve. Ada is a new entrant at Number 92, and we predict will move up on the strength of the popular Ava, still strong at Number 12.

　　While many of the girl names popular with Nameberry visitors also rank high on the U.S. baby names popularity list, others are outliers. Our top girl name Imogen, for instance, has never been on the U.S. Top 1000.

　　Here, Nameberry’s top girl names 2013….so far:

　　1. Imogen

　　2. Charlotte

　　3. Harper

　　4. Eleanor

　　5. Violet

　　6. Amelia

　　7. Seraphina

　　8. Isla

　　9. Penelope

　　10. Katniss

　　11. Evelyn

　　12. Ava

　　13. Maeve

　　14. Cora

　　15. Olivia

　　16. Merida

　　17. Alice

　　18. Adelaide

　　19. Sophia

　　20. Elizabeth

　　21. Eliza

　　22. Aurora

　　23. Hazel

　　24. Emma

　　25. Clementine

　　26. Evangeline

　　27. Clara

　　28. Claire

　　29. Grace

　　30. Nora

　　31. Matilda

　　32. Elodie

　　33. Willa

　　34. Wren

　　35. Rose

　　36. Scarlett

　　37. Josephine

　　38. Beatrice

　　39. Ivy

　　40. Lila

　　41. Aurelia

　　42. Eloise

　　43. Ruby

　　44. Isabella

　　45. Caroline

　　46. Audrey

　　47. Lucy

　　48. Mila

　　49. Maisie

　　50. Aria

　　51. Iris

　　52. Poppy

　　53. Genevieve

　　54. Emily

　　55. Adeline

　　56. Arabella

　　57. Mia

　　58. Everly

　　59. Margaret

　　60. Harlow

　　61. Mae

　　62. Chloe

　　63. Stella

　　64. Emmeline

　　65. Lydia

　　66. Lily

　　67. Francine

　　68. Ella

　　69. Jane

　　70. Juliet

　　71. Phoebe

　　72. Gemma

　　73. Esme

　　74. Sadie

　　75. Olive

　　76. Vivian

　　77. Cecilia

　　78. Hadley

　　79. Cordelia

　　80. Willow

　　81. Abigail

　　82. Beatrix

　　83. Delilah

　　84. Hannah

　　85. Frances

　　86. Kinsley

　　87. Anna

　　88. Luna

　　89. Georgia

　　90. Zoe

　　91. Ada

　　92. Madeline

　　93. Maya

　　94. Ellie

　　95. Isadora

　　96. Pearl

　　97. Louisa

　　98. Mabel

　　99. Piper

　　100.Anais

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