By the Editors of Nameberry

　　The Most Popular Baby Names of 2017 at the half-year mark are in. The big news, for a change, is with boys’ names, with Asher reclaiming the crown from Ezra at Number 1.

　　And there’s more hot news: Nearly a fifth of all boys’ names on the Top 100 are new ones compared with Nameberry’s 2016 list of popular names, with such style darlings as Kane, Magnus, Arlo, and Cassius moving into the spotlight.

　　Boys’ names new to the Top 10 are Theodore, perhaps catapulted into the spotlight as the name of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s youngest child, and Jasper.

　　With girls’ names, things are relatively more stable, with Olivia, a name that’s never reached the top of  the official US charts, hanging on as the Number 1 girls’ name. Amelia and Charlotte remain in second and third place.

　　The new names in the girls’ Top 10 are classics Evelyn, Penelope, and Eleanor. Celeste, Ines, Fiona, Saskia and Alexandra are the more surprising five new names on the girls’ Top 100.

　　The half-year popularity list is calculated by looking at traffic data to gauge which names were viewed most often by our visitors in the first half of 2017. This level of interest is one of the best ways to gauge future name popularity along with identifying current baby name trends.

　　Note: The official list of Most Popular Names on Nameberry shows rankings for that month only, and so those numbers are going to be different from these half-year statistics.

　　Hottest Names for Girls of 2017

　　These girls’ names, already among the Top 100 baby names for 2016, climbed the most spots up the list in the first six months of 2017:

　　Evelyn, +60

　　Amara, +42

　　Ada, +27

　　Phoebe, +22

　　Gemma, +21

　　Naomi, +20

　　Matilda, +19

　　Sienna, +19

　　Ophelia, +16

　　Isabel, +16

　　Hottest Names for Boys of 2017

　　A whopping 20 names are new on the boys’ side this year. They are, in order of appearance on the Top 100:

　　Charlie

　　Everett

　　Dante

　　Lucas

　　Kane

　　Rhett

　　Jonathan

　　Xander

　　Magnus

　　Emmett

　　Ian

　　Maverick

　　Winston

　　Augustus

　　Kian

　　Arlo

　　Cassian

　　Edward

　　In addition, here are the 5 boys’ names that rose the most from last year’s Top 100:

　　Kai, +57

　　Cassius, +33

　　George, +33

　　Jude, +31

　　Finn, +26

　　Here are Nameberry’s Top 100 Most Popular Names for Girls and for Boys for 2017, so far.

　　Top 100 Names for Girls

　　Olivia

　　Amelia

　　Charlotte

　　Isla

　　Isabella

　　Ava

　　Aurora

　　Evelyn

　　Penelope

　　Eleanor

　　Arabella

　　Rose

　　Cora

　　Amara

　　Ophelia

　　Violet

　　Luna

　　Elizabeth

　　Hazel

　　Esme

　　Maeve

　　Adeline

　　Alice

　　Thea

　　Lucy

　　Audrey

　　Genevieve

　　Imogen

　　Emma

　　Nora

　　Claire

　　Sadie

　　Mia

　　Ivy

　　Scarlett

　　Aurelia

　　Jane

　　Eloise

　　Lydia

　　Iris

　　Emilia

　　Elise

　　Evangeline

　　Lila

　　Caroline

　　Stella

　　Julia

　　Anna

　　Chloe

　　Astrid

　　Isabel

　　Aria

　　Clara

　　Adelaide

　　Ada

　　Matilda

　　Sienna

　　Ella

　　Eliza

　　Josephine

　　Phoebe

　　Beatrice

　　Mae

　　Elodie

　　Mila

　　Hannah

　　Maisie

　　Zoe

　　Grace

　　Willow

　　Seraphina

　　Naomi

　　Celeste

　　Ellie

　　Poppy

　　Sophia

　　Gemma

　　Khaleesi

　　Emily

　　Freya

　　Jade

　　Madeline

　　Molly

　　Elsie

　　Maya

　　Margaret

　　Zara

　　Daisy

　　Rebecca

　　Willa

　　Eliana

　　Juliet

　　Ines

　　Evie

　　Abigail

　　Fiona

　　Saskia

　　Annabelle

　　Alexandra

　　Mabel

　　Top 100 Names for Boys 2017

　　Asher

　　Atticus

　　Jack

　　Ezra

　　Theodore

　　Milo

　　Jasper

　　Oliver

　　Silas

　　Wyatt

　　Henry

　　Matthew

　　Leo

　　Declan

　　Oscar

　　Xavier

　　Finn

　　Levi

　　Thomas

　　Sebastian

　　Felix

　　Axel

　　Benjamin

　　Alexander

　　Kai

　　Caleb

　　William

　　Zachary

　　Miles

　　Ethan

　　Julian

　　Elijah

　　James

　　Andrew

　　Callum

　　Arthur

　　Liam

　　Bodhi

　　Charles

　　John

　　Aryan

　　Jude

　　Eli

　　Soren

　　Roman

　　Harrison

　　Charlie

　　Harry

　　Nathaniel

　　Ronan

　　Jacob

　　Tobias

　　Cassius

　　Isaac

　　Ryker

　　Everett

　　Archer

　　George

　　Samuel

　　Dante

　　Isaiah

　　Owen

　　Lachlan

　　Luke

　　Daniel

　　Lucas

　　Kane

　　Graham

　　Rhett

　　Hugo

　　Wesley

　　Jonathan

　　Gideon

　　Xander

　　Magnus

　　Emmett

　　Ian

　　Josiah

　　Lewis

　　Maverick

　　Joseph

　　Nolan

　　Beckett

　　Simon

　　Lucian

　　Louis

　　Winston

　　Gabriel

　　Connor

　　Augustus

　　David

　　Vincent

　　Nathan

　　Kian

　　Arlo

　　Cassian

　　Harvey

　　Griffin

　　Abel

　　Edward

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