Asher and Declan retained their Number 1 and 2 spots at the top of Nameberry’s most popular list of boys’ names for 2014.

　　The big news with boys’ names focuses on the new names moving up the ladder.  Four names are new to the Top 10 this year: Silas, Jasper, Milo, and Ezra.

　　The boys’ names that made the biggest leaps up the list are Knox, up 60 places, flowed by Archer up 45 and Ryker up 44.  Bodhi, Soren, and Beau also made big gains.

　　Nameberry’s popularity lists are based on which names attracted the most views of the nearly 50 million views of our name pages in the past year.

　　Names that made the biggest slides down the list compared with last year are all emblematic of pop culture shifts.  Flynn, popularized by last year’s television sensation Breaking Bad, lost 67 places, while Christian from Fifty Shades of Grey and Arlo of Justified were the second and third biggest losers.  George, as in 2013’s little prince, dropped 36 spots.

　　The top 100 boys’ names of 2014 are:

　　Asher

　　Declan

　　Atticus

　　Oliver

　　Silas

　　Henry

　　Jasper

　　Finn

　　Milo

　　Ezra

　　Leo

　　Levi

　　Jude

　　Wyatt

　　Felix

　　Sebastian

　　Soren

　　Beckett

　　Miles

　　Theodore

　　Bodhi

　　Jack

　　Liam

　　Archer

　　Owen

　　Emmett

　　Ethan

　　William

　　Sawyer

　　Caleb

　　Benjamin

　　Oscar

　　Josiah

　　Julian

　　James

　　Andrew

　　Hudson

　　Knox

　　Hugo

　　Alexander

　　Zachary

　　Dashiell

　　Ryder

　　Ryker

　　Ronan

　　Lucas

　　Thomas

　　Elijah

　　Luke

　　Samuel

　　Callum

　　Noah

　　Arthur

　　Isaac

　　Jacob

　　Theo

　　Weston

　　Axel

　　Roman

　　Rhys

　　Everett

　　Zane

　　Grayson

　　Rowan

　　August

　　Kai

　　Harrison

　　Beau

　　Gabriel

　　Jackson

　　Griffin

　　Austin

　　Nolan

　　Xavier

　　Daniel

　　Nathaniel

　　Charles

　　Nash

　　Simon

　　Jonah

　　Holden

　　Micah

　　Flynn

　　John

　　Wesley

　　Christian

　　Elliot

　　Graham

　　Nathan

　　George

　　Nicholas

　　Lincoln

　　Cassius

　　Tristan

　　Gideon

　　Maxwell

　　Tobias

　　Lachlan

　　Arlo

　　Matthew

　　Names new to the Boy Top 100 or returning this year are the following.  Note that some of these names were previously including on the Top Unisex Names list, but now that we have separated our pages for girl and boy versions of unisex names, we’re able to tally which gender is being searched.

　　Austin

　　Axel

　　Cassius

　　Elliot

　　Graham

　　Griffin

　　Holden

　　Kai

　　Lachlan

　　Lincoln

　　Maxwell

　　Nash

　　Ronan

　　Rowan

　　Sawyer

　　Tobias

　　Wesley

　　Weston

　　Names that left the Boys’ Top 100 list this year are:

　　Aiden

　　Cole

　　David

　　Django

　　Dylan

　　Edward

　　Eli

　　Elias

　　Gray

　　Jayden

　　Kieran

　　Logan

　　Luca

　　Mason

　　Max

　　Michael

　　Nico

　　Ryan

　　Spencer

　　Thank you to Megan Garon for help compiling and analyzing these statistics.