BabyNames.com Announces the Top Baby Names of 2014
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"Entertainment is influencing baby naming more than ever," says BabyNames.com founder, Jennifer Moss. "We're seeing celebrity names and character names flooding the popularity charts. The name Liam, for example, started to become popular after the actor Liam Neeson, but then jumped to #1 when Liam Hemsworth came on the scene."
As time goes on baby names seem to get more creative, but this year the top baby names were rather common. Expectant parents also get inspiration form popular TV shows and movies. If I had to guess, I would say the top girl name would be Elsa (after the "Frozen" character.) Instead, Charlotte was the most popular girl name. Liam was at the top of the list of boy baby names according to babynames.com
The leading website for naming your baby has tallied up the most popular names of the year and the winners are Liam and Charlotte for the third year in a row.
"Entertainment is influencing baby naming more than ever," says BabyNames.com founder, Jennifer Moss. "We're seeing celebrity names and character names flooding the popularity charts. The name Liam, for example, started to become popular after the actor Liam Neeson, but then jumped to #1 when Liam Hemsworth came on the scene."
Parents are also using popular character names from fiction, especially television. Moss says the name Aria/Arya hit the top ten names for girls after the television shows Pretty Little Liars and Game of Thrones both featured popular characters with that name.
BabyNames.com compiles its name ranking from the site members' favorite name lists. "We have millions of members that add names to their favorite name lists each year," states Moss. "So we can track which names are trending in real time. Our lists often predict the actual birth name trends by one to two years."
So what entertainment names are rising fast? According to the BabyNames.com trends, we will be seeing more baby boys named Archer (Archer), Finnick (The Hunger Games) and Atticus (To Kill a Mockingbird). For girls, watch for Aurora (Sleeping Beauty), Hazel (The Fault in our Stars), and Piper (Orange is the New Black).
The full list of the 100 most popular names of 2014 can be found on the BabyNames.com website.
SIDEBAR: BABYNAMES.COM'S TOP 20 BABY NAMES FOR 2014Name statistics include alternate spellings of the same name
Girls
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Boys
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1
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Charlotte
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Liam
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2
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Amelia
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Noah
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3
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Aria
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Oliver
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4
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Olivia
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Ethan
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5
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Violet
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Asher
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6
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Ava
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Benjamin
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7
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Sophia
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Henry
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8
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Emma
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Owen
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9
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Scarlett
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Caleb
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10
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Nora
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Jackson
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11
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Audrey
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Grayson
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12
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Aurora
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Declan
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13
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Vivienne
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Landon
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14
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Lily
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Alexander
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15
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Abigail
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Levi
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16
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Chloe
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Aidan
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17
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Adalyn
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Finn
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18
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Ella
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Elijah
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19
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Elizabeth
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Lucas
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20
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Alice
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Gavin
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