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Baby names

28th Aug 2022

Apparently, these are the 20 ‘best baby names in the universe’

Trine Jensen-Burke

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Can we all agree picking the perfect baby name is hard?

So, so hard.

I mean; there are just so many great names to choose from, no?

And if this is currently you, desperately trying to decide which moniker to give your baby, well, then you might be interested to see this list from the very popular Name Nerds thread over at Reddit.

“Finally what you’ve all been waiting for: Name Nerds Top 100(ish) names!’ writes Reddit user and hard-working baby name fancier Lyd_Euh in the popular thread on baby names.

“We had an amazing turnout and there were a total of 1,772 girl names and 1,757 boy names submitted.”

To see the full list compiled by Reddit’s Name Nerds click here, but just to give you an idea of what names they deemed the very most amazing ones, here are the top 20 names for both girls and boys:

Top 20 girls’ names – according to Reddit’s Name Nerds

  1. Eleanor
  2. Elizabeth
  3. Violet
  4. Charlotte
  5. Matilda
  6. Alice
  7. Josephine
  8. Eloise
  9. Evelyn
  10. Nora
  11. Lydia
  12. Penelope
  13. Margot
  14. Stella
  15. Fiona
  16. Genevieve
  17. Hazel
  18. Juniper
  19. Ophelia
  20. Amelia

Top 20 boys’ names – according to Reddit’s Name Nerds

  1. Henry
  2. James
  3. Theodore
  4. Oliver
  5. Arthur
  6. Sebastian
  7. Benjamin
  8. August
  9. Felix
  10. Julian
  11. Ezra
  12. Owen
  13. Elliott
  14. Everett
  15. Jack
  16. Leo
  17. Isaac
  18. Jasper
  19. Theo
  20. Alistair

Lyd_Euh not only compiled the top 100 names from these thousands of Reddit suggestions, but she also spotted some interesting trends.

“Most Name Nerds prefer classic or old-fashioned names,” Lyd_Euh continued in her post. “There were very few modern names that made the list.”

“Our youngest (12 years old) member’s favourite names are: Dilian (f) and Harley (m). Our oldest (62 years old) member’s favourite names are: Sadie and Stephen.”