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Favorite Names on Nameberry

our website visitors are more intelligent and sophisticated and have more style than the average baby namer — of course we do — and the names we love often become future favorites on the official popularity lists. Many of the baby names beloved on our website are also popular among the rest of the country, but the names here are loved significantly more on our website.

our website favorites that you won’t find on the US Top 1000 include Andromeda, Phineas, Elio, Claudia, Cassian, Seraphina, Isolde, and, thankfully, Lucifer. Longtime favorites gaining steam in the wider world include Aurelia, Magnus, Wren, and Zephyr.

These our website favorite baby names are destined for more widespread appreciation. Here, the our website names that are pulling well above their weight.

Evander

Meaning: bow warrior; strong man

Origin:Scottish; Greek
47
Lucifer

Meaning: light-bearer

Origin:Latin
55
Gideon

Meaning: hewer; or, having a stump for a hand

Origin:Hebrew
68
Knox

Meaning: round hill

Origin:Scottish
77
Elio

Meaning: sun

Origin:Italian, Spanish
37
Alistair

Meaning: defending men

Origin:English spelling of Alasdair, Scottish version of Alexander
72
Tobias

Meaning: God is good

Origin:Greek from Hebrew
31
Rhys

Meaning: ardor

Origin:Welsh
80
Caspian

Meaning: white

Origin:Place name
10
Cassian

Meaning: hollow

Origin:Latin, variation of Cassius
27
Archie

Meaning: truly brave

Origin:Diminutive of Archibald, Teutonic
54
Lachlan

Meaning: from the fjord-land

Origin:Scottish
65
Callum

Meaning: dove

Origin:Scottish form of Columba, Latin
94
Ronan

Meaning: little seal

Origin:Irish
51
Kieran

Meaning: little dark one

Origin:Irish
109
Flynn

Meaning: descendant of the red-haired one

Origin:Irish
126
Orion

Meaning: boundary, limit

Origin:Greek
119
Phoenix

Meaning: dark red

Origin:Arizona place-name and Greek
123
Odin

Meaning: god of frenzy; poetic fury

Origin:Variation of Óðinn, Old Norse
229
Rhodes

Meaning: where roses grow

Origin:Greek
309