{"id":379720,"date":"2026-10-22T14:22:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T14:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/379720\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T14:22:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T14:22:33","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-babycenter-5-boy-names-top-popularity-list-for-third-consecutive-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/379720\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Babycenter 5 Boy Names Top Popularity List For Third Consecutive Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">BabyCenter released their 2026 top baby names list, revealing a mix of old and new trends throughout the year.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\"><a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/longisland.news12.com\/olivia-noah-top-babycenters-list-of-2025-baby-names\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Last year\u2019s leading champions<\/a>, Olivia and Noah, kept their top spots. Eliana, Amelia, Charlotte and Sophia round out the top five for girls.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">One new girl name debuted in the top 100- Magnolia. Evelyn rejoined the top 10 girl names after falling out of favor in 2024.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Noah, Liam, Oliver, Elijah and Mateo remain the most popular boy names for the third consecutive year. Four new boy names made it to the top 100- Milo, Stetson, Archer and Dean.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Other key findings from the list include a spike in the popularity of longer names. 29% of the top girl names and 31% of the top boy names have seven or more letters.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Parents also took a liking to certain initials, according to BabyCenter. 15% of the top 100 girl names start with the letter E, while 14% of the top 100 for boys begin with J.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\"><a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.babycenter.com\/baby-names\/most-popular\/top-baby-names-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to view the full list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BabyCenter released their 2026 top baby names list, revealing a mix of old and new trends throughout the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-379720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}