Current:Home > MyBaby names we could see vanish this year and those blazing ahead in 2024 -PrimeWealth Guides
Baby names we could see vanish this year and those blazing ahead in 2024
View
Date:2025-04-19 17:46:07
The nation's top digital parenting resource has released its annual list of most-popular baby names for 2024, this time including data on names we could see vanish this year.
The State of Baby Names initiative run by BabyCenter has been analyzing information submitted by parents for 20 years, which many expectant couples turn to for help with family planning.
Here's what was popular in 2023, what is popular going into 2024 and what we may never see resurface.
Baby names that could go extinct this year
Overall - girl names favored when millennials were being born have been falling year after year the past decade, while names ending with "-aden," popular for boys throughout the 2000s, have also seen a major decline, according to BabyCenter.
Here are 10 names from each category we may not see much of in the future.
Girl names at risk of extinction
- Brooke (down 198 spots)
- Blake (down 185 spots)
- Mckenzie (down 184 spots)
- Brooklynn (down 182 spots)
- Charli (down 179 spots)
- Raegan (down 161 spots)
- Mckenna (down 150 spots)
- Finley (down 144 spots)
- Amanda (down 131 spots)
- Michelle (down 129 spots)
Boy names at risk of extinction
- Julius (down 189 spots)
- Jaiden (down 151 spots)
- Johnny (down 150 spots)
- Raiden (down 147 spots)
- Reid (down 143 spots)
- Brady (down 114 spots)
- Nasir (down 114 spots)
- Ronan (down 104 spots)
- Bradley (down 104 spots)
- Clayton (down 102 spots)
You can read the full list here.
'I will never understand':NFL reporter Doug Kyed announces death of 2-year-old daughter
The most-popular baby names going into 2024
Updated in real-time, BabyCenter has released the top 100 names already off to a great start this year.
See the full list here.
Girls names blazing in 2024
- Olivia
- Isabella
- Amelia
- Sophia
- Emma
- Charlotte
- Ava
- Ellie
- Aurora
- Luna
Boy names blazing in 2024
- Noah
- Liam
- Oliver
- Elijah
- Mateo
- Lucas
- Asher
- Ezra
- Michael
- James
Watch:Deaf 3-year-old girl's adorable reaction to watching 'Barbie with ASL' is going viral
2023's most-popular baby names
We have a better idea of what the most-popular baby names were in 2023 since data was collected and analyzed month after month. Notice that many of the names leading this year were also in the lead last year.
Here are the top 10 from each category, but you can view the full list of 100 here.
Girl names popular in 2023
- Olivia
- Emma
- Amelia
- Sophia
- Charlotte
- Ava
- Isabella
- Mia
- Luna
- Evelyn
Boy names popular in 2023
- Noah
- Liam
- Oliver
- Elijah
- Mateo
- Lucas
- Levi
- Leo
- Ezra
- Luca
Kyte Baby:Company under fire for denying mom's request to work from preemie son's hospital
veryGood! (6)
Related
- Can Bill Belichick turn North Carolina into a winner? At 72, he's chasing one last high
- Amanda Bynes Shares Why She Underwent Eyelid Surgery
- Russia blasts a southern Ukraine region and hackers strike Ukrainian phone and internet services
- U.N. says Israel-Hamas war causing unmatched suffering in Gaza, pleads for new cease-fire, more aid
- Intellectuals vs. The Internet
- The Dutch counterterror agency has raised the national threat alert to the second-highest level
- UK leader Sunak is racing to persuade lawmakers to back his Rwanda migration bill in a key vote
- South Africa to build new nuclear plants. The opposition attacked the plan over alleged Russia links
- NHL in ASL returns, delivering American Sign Language analysis for Deaf community at Winter Classic
- Dinosaur head found in U.K., and experts say it's one of the most complete pliosaur skulls ever unearthed
Ranking
- Travis Hunter, the 2
- Death of Adam Johnson sparks renewed interest in guard mandates for youth hockey
- MI6 chief thanks Russian state television for its ‘help’ in encouraging Russians to spy for the UK
- A Moldovan court annuls a ban on an alleged pro-Russia party that removed it from local elections
- B.A. Parker is learning the banjo
- Suspect in fatal grocery store shooting leaves behind debit card, leading to his arrest
- How much for the two turtle doves, please? Unpacking the real cost of 12 Days of Christmas
- U.S. sees unprecedented, staggering rise in antisemitic and anti-Muslim incidents since start of Israel-Hamas war, groups say
Recommendation
McConnell absent from Senate on Thursday as he recovers from fall in Capitol
Harvard president remains leader of Ivy League school following backlash on antisemitism testimony
Milestone in recovery from historic Maui wildfire
Biden takes a tougher stance on Israel’s ‘indiscriminate bombing’ of Gaza’
Are Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp down? Meta says most issues resolved after outages
Katie Lee Biegel's Gift Guide Will Help You & Loved Ones Savor The Holiday Season
Making oil is more profitable than saving the planet. These numbers tell the story
Russia blasts a southern Ukraine region and hackers strike Ukrainian phone and internet services