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Popular Boys’ Names: Top 100 Makeover
Popular Boys’ Names: Top 100 Makeover
Jun 18, 2026 11:34 AM

  by Pamela Redmond Satran and Linda Rosenkrantz

  It was the Case of the Great Missing Baby Names Blog.

  One of our most-read blogs of all time, a makeover of the top 100 most popular boys’ names, disappeared from our archive.  We didn’t even notice it was gone until a Berry wrote wondering where it was.  The girls’ makeover, also written by Elisabeth Wilborn of You Can’t Call It It, is still there.  But the boys’: stolen, zapped, vanished into thin air.

  So we set out to fashion a new version, using the current popular boys’ names list of 2012.

  These are our suggestions of similar-but-different names you might substitute if you like the original boys’ name, but it’s just too popular.

  Jacob –> Abel

  Mason –> Miller

  Ethan–>Ephraim

  Noah–>Jonah

  William  –> Wallace

  Liam –> Leon

  Jayden  –> Jude

  Michael –-> Malcolm

  Alexander –> Augustine

  Aiden –> Amias

  Daniel –> Nathaniel

  Matthew –> Mathis

  Elijah –> Eleazar

  James –> Seamus

  Anthony –> Vincent

  Benjamin –> Benno

  Joshua –> Sasha

  Andrew  –> Anderson

  David –> Davis

  Joseph –> Josiah

  Logan –> Rogan

  Jackson –> Pierce

  Christopher –> Caspian

  Gabriel –> Raphael

  Samuel –> Samson

  Ryan –> O’Brien

  Lucas –> Lucian

  John –> Junot

  Nathan –> North

  Isaac –> Izar

  Dylan –> Thomas

  Caleb –> Calvin

  Christian –> Grey

  Landon –> Lander

  Jonathan –> Jotham

  Carter –> Booker

  Luke –> Luther

  Owen –> Otis

  Brayden –> Brady

  Gavin –> Garrett

  Wyatt –> Wylie

  Isaiah –> Sayer

  Henry –> Harry

  Eli –> Ezra

  Hunter –> Bridger

  Jack –> Mack

  Evan –> Everett

  Jordan –> George

  Nicholas –> Nico

  Tyler –> Tai

  Aaron –> Abram

  __Cameron –>__ Camden

  Levi –> Adlai

  Jeremiah –> Jedediah

  Julian –> Julius

  Brandon –> Brennan

  Angel –> Anselmo

  Austin –> Auden

  Connor –> Connery

  Adrian –> Hadrian

  Robert –> Robin

  Charles –> Channing

  Thomas –> Tobias

  Sebastian –> Bastian

  Colton –> Cole

  Jaxon –> Maxon

  Kevin –> Keegan

  Zachary –> Zebedee

  Ayden –> Axton

  Dominic –> Donovan

  Blake –> Blaise

  Jose –> Joaquin

  Oliver–> Otto

  Justin –> Justus

  Bentley –> Bennett

  Jason –> Jay

  Chase –> Case

  Ian –> Ewan

  Josiah –> Ozias

  Parker –> Palmer

  Xavier –> Javier

  Adam –> Asa

  Cooper –> Clooney

  Nathaniel –> Bartholomew

  Grayson –> Gray

  Jace –> Rafe

  Carson –> Carsten

  Nolan –> Noble

  Tristan –> Torin

  Luis –> Lucio

  Brody –> Barnaby

  Juan –> Julio

  Hudson –> River

  Bryson –> Byron

  Carlos –> Claudio

  Easton –> West

  Damian –> Darius

  Alex –> Alec

  Kayden –> Curran

  Ryder –> Walker

  Any makeover ideas for these popular baby names for boys that you’d like to add or change?

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