Top 1,000 Baby Boy Names in the U S.

And, just in time for the 25th an­ni­ver­sa­ry of The Phan­tom Men­ace, Ana­kin is No. 543 on the list. Many of us name ba­bies ba­sed on who we want them to grow up to be, and all of the­se names nudge your son toward cool guy sta­tus. It’s hard to pic­tu­re a man na­med Dash or Rhett as be­ing any­thing but ex­cep­tio­nal­ly rad, and that’s exact­ly the point.

In fact, al­most every top-10 name from 2023 is hol­ding ste­ady in 2024 – with some no­te­wor­t­hy ex­cep­ti­ons. El­lie joins the top 10 girl names for the first time ever at No. 9, bum­ping Eve­lyn down to No. 11. And As­her is back in the top 10 boy names at No. 9 af­ter a year away, while Luca is out at No. 12. Choo­sing a fa­mi­ly name for your baby is still a com­mon tra­di­ti­on, but the­re are mul­ti­ple ways to go about it. In some fa­mi­lies, the child (usual­ly the first­born) has the exact same name as the fa­ther, with the ad­di­ti­on of a „Jr.“ (mea­ning ju­ni­or) suf­fix at the end.

If this ex­tends bey­ond the ori­gi­nal fa­ther and son, you ty­pi­cal­ly use Ro­man nu­me­rals (II, III, IV, V, etc.) to de­pict this de­si­gna­ti­on. Jen­ny Stu­den­roth Ger­son is an At­lan­ta-ba­sed life­style jour­na­list and no­ve­list (Let Me Let You Go, 2020). Her work can be seen in pu­bli­ca­ti­ons in­clu­ding Huff­Post, Cos­mo, and WSJ, among many others. When not mee­ting dead­lines, she is cha­sing todd­lers or chug­ging coffee—or both! Find her on In­sta­gram @ourlifeinrosegold for mom hacks and more.

If you turn to the sil­ver screen, you’ll find ple­nty of con­ten­ders like Da­shiell, Lu­ci­us, and Win­s­ton in The In­cre­di­bles 2. The­re are also clas­sic ci­ne­ma cha­rac­ters brim­ming with style like Rick and Vic­tor from Ca­sa­blan­ca. Cool baby boy names ap­pear along the Walk of Fame as well like Clark, Gab­le, Dean, and Bran­do. Whe­ther you’­re loo­king for a baby boy name that’s a po­pu­lar clas­sic or more of a rare gem, you can find in­spi­ra­ti­on in this list of the top 1,000 baby boy names in the U.S. For ex­am­p­le, you could take a po­pu­lar boys name like Ja­cob and re­al­ly make it your own by chan­ging let­ters to make it Ja­kob or even ad­ding to it to crea­te Ja­co­bus. The­se are some of our fa­vou­ri­te uni­que boys names, plus their meanings.

The ran­kings were crea­ted using the exact spel­lings of names gi­ven at birth re­gis­tra­ti­on, mea­ning si­mi­lar names with dif­fe­rent spel­lings were coun­ted se­pa­ra­te­ly. In 2023 the­re were 4,661 Mu­ham­mads born across Eng­land and Wales, up from 4,177 in 2022, while Mo­ham­med came in 28th with 1,601 and Mo­ham­mad came 68th with 835. The data shows that Mu­ham­mad was the most po­pu­lar boys’ name in four out of nine re­gi­ons in Eng­land and 63rd most po­pu­lar in Wales. Me­an­while, Oli­via was the most po­pu­lar girls’ name in five out of nine re­gi­ons in Eng­land and the most po­pu­lar in Wales. It has been in the top th­ree for girls’ names every year sin­ce 2006. One no­ti­ceable trend is the re­turn to clas­sic names with a mo­dern twist.

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Talk about your fa­vo­ri­te boy names with other ex­pec­tant par­ents and name lo­vers on our fri­end­ly fo­rums. You can get ad­vice and feed­back on your top choices, gather new ide­as and in­spi­ra­ti­on, or sim­ply dis­cuss all things boy names with our know­led­geable mem­bers from around the world. We live in an age whe­re cool and unu­su­al names are high­ly co­ve­ted. This adds to the di­ver­si­ty of names and me­ans your child is un­li­kely to be one of th­ree No­ahs in his kin­der­gar­ten class. But everyone’s po­pu­la­ri­ty th­res­hold is dif­fe­rent when it co­mes to their own baby’s name.