I write from an American perspective, but name trends don't stop at the border. More than ever before, a cohesive international style is emerging, with a set of names you're equally likely to encounter in Berlin, Paris and New York.
The international style favors smooth classics with a faintly antique flavor and no clear ethnicity -- think Anna for girls, Alexander for boys. The style is especially popular in Central and Northern Europe and in affluent English-speaking areas. Jet-setting American parents will be glad to find that the names travel well. They may also be interested to hear that Europe tends to be a few years ahead in the name curve. Greek names like Chloe and Elias, for instance, spread through Europe before catching the ears of American parents.
So for a new angle on up-and-coming names, I've made a roundup of half a dozen international-styled countries: Australia, England, France, Germany, Ireland and Sweden. My targets were names that rank in top 20 in at least two different countries, but haven't cracked the American top 100 in the past decade.
GIRLS
Amelia
Charlotte
Clara
BOYS
Hugo
Louis
Oliver
Philip
Simon
and some prospects that didn't quite make the cut:
Eloise, Georgia, Holly, Louisa, Mathilda
Elliot, Felix, Jasper, Marcus, Martin
(The fine print: I eliminated names that were close variants of American favorites, and combined spellings like Louis/Lewis.)
Many of these names are already climbing, especially in stylish urban neighborhoods...but the world clearly stands ready to welcome a few more Simons and Claras.
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Its wild to know name that are coming our way from Europe. I enjoyed knowing what was coming.
Absolutely mesmerising. Sadly my own and my son's names aren't in there, although common enough here in Scotland - Ruaraidh (pronounced Rory) and Hamish. My daughter's name doesn't even appear to be known anywhere except Iceland - she is called Eilin.
My daughter's name (Maisie)is not mentioned either. I have had folks come up to me and mention older relatives with the same name, though.
Can you post a link to where you found international name data and rankings?
I'm a bit sceptical as to your sources. The tool is fantastic, but every second child born in England last year was named Alfie and yet the name doesn't even appear in your list. Is this just North American? Has Alfie not hit your shores yet?
Haven't noticed any little American Alfies just yet. It seems that over here most Alfreds go by Al--not that large numbers of babies are being named Alfred these days. My husband and I were considering Alfred/Alfie for our new baby (after Grandpa), but we are having a girl. So, the name debates starts anew.
"Andrew". Is this name duplicate in the 90's?
I had no idea that the names Coleman and Walker were so popular! They are both surnames in my family and I did not think they would make the list. Who else has come across these?
I came accross the name "Tulpen" (German for tulip) for a woman in a novel. Does anyone know if this is actually a name that is used in Germany? Or anywhere else?
I only know well the French naming trends, but I'm not sure a globalization of naming trends is really taking place... for instance, the kreative spellings have appeared here too, but we don't have the surnames-used-as-first-names at all, and a lot of Biblical names popular in the US right now (Jacob, etc.) would sound way too Jewish for gentile parents to use.
I don't see the name Rystana
i was also sad to see that maisie, or the variant spellings thereof, was not included in the namevoyager. it's one of my favorites.but i LOVE this website and i can't wait for the book to come in the mail!
Alas, I am dismayed to see the name Clara on your list of up-and-coming Euro names! My husband and I are planning to name our first child Clara Justice if she is a girl (we'll meet the baby some time in July). The name is after my husband's paternal great-grandmother, and my maternal great-great-great grandmother, who was named Clara Cunningham Justice Grugan (a name I have always thought had a wonderful musical sound to it.) While originality is not at the top of our list of requirements, we did gravitate to Clara because it sounds normal, but not common. Then again, if the baby is a boy, he will be Beckon, which is definietely wierd. Oh well...
Alas, I am dismayed to see the name Clara on your list of up-and-coming Euro names! My husband and I are planning to name our first child Clara Justice if she is a girl (we'll meet the baby some time in July). The name is after my husband's paternal great-grandmother, and my maternal great-great-great grandmother, who was named Clara Cunningham Justice Grugan (a name I have always thought had a wonderful musical sound to it.) While originality is not at the top of our list of requirements, we did gravitate to Clara because it sounds normal, but not common. Then again, if the baby is a boy, he will be Beckon, which is definietely wierd. Oh well...
Love the info... My daughters are Gwenn and Ella (Gwendolyn and Eleanor) and hit no where on the top 100 list. My good friend has daughters Matilde and Penelope, in the same situation. I actually am looking for name #3 that does not hit the top 100, and potentially not in the top 200!
We have twin daughters named Imogen Harriet and Eleanor Maude, names which our north american family thought were 'antiquated and weird.' In the UK, though, Imogen's about the 60th most popular name, and Eleanor's close to the top 10 (which we didn't know at the time). Just goes to show!
I can't find my name at all which is CHARISMA. I can understand no one wanting to name their daughter that!!! Lots of grief growing up.
This list is pretty Euro-centric. I'm curious about the names from Asian countries. I understand that the trend in Japan is to give children more western sounding names (like Ami, for instance). And what about the growing trend of babies adopted from China? There must be a lot of Jasmines and Jades among those little girls (not technically Asian names, but they have an Asian feel).
Alfie is DEFINITELY NOT popular in the U.S. I have never even heard of it!
Alfie is the best you can do with the name Alfred...Maude on the other hand can't really be fixed. Neither can Edith, my grandmother's name. Or Jo my mother's name. I'm glad my mother had the creativity to name me Valerie....
Alfie is my two year old sons name i think it is very cute.My eight year old daughter is called Seaneigh(shaunie) have neaver met any girl called this or spelled this way.would love to know if anyone else has this name?
most common european name is mohammed
Hi. My name is Jaina (Jane-nuh). People usually think that my name is very unusual.My parents made it up because they thought it was cute. Is there anyone else with the same name(Spelled and pernounced the same way)?
My goddaughter is named Jaina--spelled just like that! I think it's lovely.
AAAAARGH!MEET a child? ORIGINAL name?Just how far up your own rectums are you people?When we were waiting for my children to be born (oh, sorry: "waiting to meet our children" for all the pseudo-intellectual pinheads out there) we played the name game as all normal people do (normal people, like there's any reading this!).Each time we chose names we liked - not because they were original (so rule out XATERFUFFUFGALL, Mr A from Des Moines), but because they sounded like decent normal names.However, when the children arrived (uh, sorry, forgot again: when we MET them), none of the names we liked seemed to fit.We then chose names that seemed to fit the child.We didn't choose them because they were original.We didn't choose them because they were popular.We didn't choose them because they fitted some bizarre ideal of what we thought of ourselves as parents.We didn't even choose them because of who their parents, grandparents, great-grand parents etc were.In short, we behaved as though we were not from the United States Of America at all.Tom, Elizabeth and Daisy may well be on some popularity lists somewhere, but I really have no idea, and (ooh, don't you just love it?) frankly, my dear, I couldn't give a tinker's cuss.
Monsieur Le ClownFirstly , why are you even looking on this website, if you can't handle the fact that some of us out there like to do something different. Doesn't change make the world go round?It would be a very dull and boring place if we all had the same names. I suppose you would wish all music / food/ artto be the same, and not be original. I suppose we should all be like you.Perhaps some of us don't delibrately set about creating obscure or unusual names just for the sake of doing so to be different, but just for the fact that we like them for whatever reason.And, honestly if you have nothing better to do that critisize those of us that do, it comes back to my original point, how boring a place it would be if everyone thought as you do.( Not that unusual names are for entertainment, but variety in life is definately a good thing)
We chose the name Jaina for our newborn daughter pronounced "Jane-nuh" too! I had never heard or seen the name spelled/pronounced this way. Me and my husband came up with it because its a pretty combination of our names "Julian" and Rana and happens to have a fitting meaning too.
the person who responded at 6:42pm has a story VERY similar to mine, it's uncanny. i had a daughter in july 2005 and named her clara isabelle. clara is after my paternal grandmother and my husband's paternal grandmother. it's very interesting to know that these are popular in europe and may be making their way here.
I can't wait for Monsieur Le Clown's Tom, Elizabeth & Daisy( did you know Daisy is a diminutive of Elizabeth? I bet your daughters will love to find out they have clone names)to sort him out by having the most pretentious set of names for his grandchildren. And of course he chose them because they were individual and because they fitted him & his wife's view of themselves as parents.Does anyone do much different - especially of the latter? Think about it.
Very much predict that Eleanor is on the, rise it will come over to the US. The name is just in pop music too much now.
Our son is named Brennan Michael, its a good Welsh name.
Who had the post that Charisma was a not good name to get stuck with? I only ask because my 2 year old daughter is named Charisma.
My daughter is named Clara-Ann .. Just becuase we liked it - we heard someone else call their daughter whilst on holiday in France a few years ago so decided that when we got pregnant, that Clara would be our little girls name.
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"I eliminated names that were [...] combined spellings like Louis/Lewis."
The idea that Louis and Lewis are the same name is an American misconception. One is French, the other German and Welsh. They're pronounced differently when pronounced correctly.
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