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101 Baby Girl Names

Looking for the perfect baby girl name? Here's a list of the top girl names to choose from.

101 Baby Girl Names

When family and lifestyle expert and blogger Donna Bozzo (a.k.a. The Lady with the Alligator Purse) was sorting through baby girl names, she knew she wanted something unique and beautiful. She and her husband chose Ava. “The only Ava I knew was Ava Gardner,” she says. “I was worried it was too old-fashioned, but we loved it. So we went with it.”

She didn’t realize until Ava was 6 months old that, far from being a unique name, Ava was an increasingly common choice for new parents. In 2014, Ava was the No. 5 name choice for baby girls, based on names provided for Social Security number cards issued by the Social Security Administration (SSA). “We were at a baby pool and there were like eight Avas,” Bozzo says. “But what can you do?”

A similar thing happened with her daughter Grace. There are three Graces in her daughter’s class, which means even her family sometimes calls her “Grace Bozzo” to identify her rather than just Grace. “It’s my own daughter and we do that,” Bozzo sighs. Despite the popularity of the names, Bozzo says she wouldn’t change her daughters’ names. “They’ve grown into those names — that’s who they are,” she says.

June Rifkin Clark, the author of “The Everything Baby Names Book,” which gives 50,000 choices to help parents find the right moniker, says keeping an eye on current popular actors, characters and other types of public people can give parents some sense when a name will have a renewed popularity.

Charlotte, for instance, already on the way up the popularity charts (the SSA ranked it the No. 46 most popular name in the United States in 2010 — it jumped to No. 10 in 2014), is bound to become even more common now that William and Kate, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, chose the name for their royal infant.

“Really, it just comes down to a gut decision for parents,” says Rifkin Clark. Family, religion, culture, education, socioeconomic and negative or positive associations all play a part in deciding on baby girl names — whether consciously or unconsciously, she says. Parents should think about the cultural associations of a name like Adolf, for example. So are you wondering what to name your little sweetie?

Here are 101 top baby girl names, based on the Social Security Administration’s 2014 records:
 

  1. Aaliyah
  2. Abigail
  3. Addison
  4. Alexa
  5. Alexandra
  6. Alexis
  7. Alice
  8. Allison
  9. Alyssa
  10. Amelia
  11. Anna
  12. Annabelle
  13. Aria
  14. Ariana
  15. Arianna
  16. Ashley
  17. Aubrey
  18. Aubree
  19. Audrey
  20. Autumn
  21. Ava
  22. Avery
  23. Bella
  24. Brooklyn
  25. Brianna
  26. Camila
  27. Caroline
  28. Charlotte
  29. Chloe
  30. Claire
  31. Ella
  32. Eleanor
  33. Elizabeth
  34. Ellie
  35. Emma
  36. Emily
  37. Eva
  38. Evelyn
  39. Faith
  40. Gabriella
  41. Genesis
  42. Gianna
  43. Grace
  44. Hadley
  45. Hailey
  46. Hannah
  47. Harper
  48. Isabelle
  49. Isabella
  50. Jasmine
  51. Julia
  52. Katherina
  53. Kaylee
  54. Kennedy
  55. Khloe
  56. Kylie
  57. Lauren
  58. Layla
  59. Leah
  60. Lillian
  61. Lily
  62. London
  63. Lucy
  64. Lydia
  65. Mackenzie
  66. Madelyn
  67. Madeline
  68. Madison
  69. Maya
  70. Melanie
  71. Mia
  72. Mila
  73. Morgan
  74. Naomi
  75. Natalie
  76. Neveah
  77. Nora
  78. Olivia
  79. Paisley
  80. Penelope
  81. Peyton
  82. Piper
  83. Riley
  84. Ruby
  85. Sadie
  86. Samantha
  87. Sarah
  88. Savannah
  89. Scarlett
  90. Serenity
  91. Skylar
  92. Sophia
  93. Sofia
  94. Sophie
  95. Stella
  96. Taylor
  97. Victoria
  98. Violet
  99. Vivian
  100. Zoey
  101. Zoe

Kara (No. 442) Murphy is a freelance writer in Erie, Pennsylvania. Her children are named Zoe (No. 32) and Max (No. 112).