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Top Baby Names 2021

The top baby names of 2021 include brand new names, rediscovered vintage names, and names imported from around the world.

We calculate our list of the top names of 2021 by calculating which names saw the biggest increases in views by readers over the past year.

This list of most popular names is a radical departure from the official lists, including our own, because we're looking not at which names were most popular in the past or even the present, but which will be most popular in the future.

Here, our roster of top baby names for boys and girls in 2021.

Harlow

Meaning: rock hill or army hill

Origin:English surname
299
Indigo

Meaning: Indian dye

Origin:Greek
410
Paisley

Meaning: church, cemetery

Origin:Scottish
826
Aurelia

Meaning: the golden one

Origin:Latin
3
Cecilia

Meaning: blind

Origin:Feminine form of Cecil, Latin
51
Octavia

Meaning: eighth

Origin:Latin
306
Artemis

Meaning: safe or butcher

Origin:Greek mythology name
491
Eloise

Meaning: healthy; wide

Origin:French and English variation of Heloise
5
Mabel

Meaning: lovable

Origin:Diminutive of Amabel, Latin
40
Anya

Meaning: grace

Origin:Russian diminutive of Anna
165
Remi

Meaning: oarsman

Origin:French, variation of Remy
230
Lyra

Meaning: lyre

Origin:Greek
28
Persephone

Meaning: bringer of destruction

Origin:Greek
83
Andromeda

Meaning: advising like a man

Origin:Greek mythology name
132
Quinn

Meaning: descendent of Conn

Origin:Irish
176
Elodie

Meaning: foreign riches

Origin:French, variation of Alodia, German
26
Poppy

Meaning: red flower

Origin:English from Latin
39
Clover

Meaning: key

Origin:Flower name, from Old English
93
Adelaide

Meaning: noble, nobility

Origin:Variant of Adelheidis, German
35
Theodora

Meaning: gift of God

Origin:Feminine variation of Theodore
208