Change in Baby Names Popularity from 2009 to 2010

Change in popularity from 2009 to 2010

The tables below show the change in popularity of baby names from 2009 to 2010. Names at the top of a list have the greatest increases in popularity, while those at the bottom have the greatest decreases in popularity. Generally, the more popular a name, the smaller the change in popularity.

For each year, rank 1 indicates the most popular name, rank 2 the next most popular, and so forth. "Popularity change" is the difference in ranks from one year to the next. We compared ranks for both years only if a name was in the top 500 in at least one of the 2 years. With this restriction, we tabulated 520 male names and 526 female names.