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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.

Fia

Meaning: wild or weaver

Origin:Irish or Portuguese or Italian
358
Cordelia

Meaning: heart; daughter of the sea

Origin:Latin; Celtic
33
Ayla

Meaning: oak tree, or halo, moonlight

Origin:Hebrew, or Turkish
84
Rowan

Meaning: rowan tree; little redhead

Origin:Scottish and Irish
35
Ione

Meaning: violet flower

Origin:Greek
235
Cosima

Meaning: order, beauty, universe

Origin:Italian feminine variation of Cosmo, Greek
282
Claudia

Meaning: lame; enclosure

Origin:Feminine variation of Claude
129
Eden

Meaning: place of pleasure, delight

Origin:Hebrew
170
Ellis

Meaning: benevolent

Origin:English surname derived from Elijah or Elias or Welsh
925
August

Meaning: great, magnificent

Origin:German form of Latin Augustus
16
Jude

Meaning: praised

Origin:Latin diminutive of Judah
14
Ezra

Meaning: help

Origin:Hebrew
21
Arlo

Meaning: between two hills

Origin:Irish or English
9
Finn

Meaning: fair or white

Origin:Irish
20
Juniper

Meaning: young

Origin:Latin tree name
101
Willow

Meaning: willow tree

Origin:English nature name
96
Lara

Meaning: citadel

Origin:Russian, diminutive of Larissa or Larisa
453
Calix

Meaning: chalice

Origin:Male variation of Calixta or Latin
185
Reese

Meaning: ardor

Origin:Welsh
584
Aura

Meaning: soft breeze

Origin:Greek
242