oh baby top baby names delaware 2014An everlasting life-changing delicate decision or the greatest debate of your life perhaps – what to name your new bundle of precious joy. Will you choose to mums the word or spill the beans prior to arrival? Tres chic and trendy or traditional and old fashioned? Want to fit in with the majority or rank out with the minority? Got a short list of contenders but can’t decide how to make the final call? Our best advice — go with one that makes you smile every time you think of it or say it. To help, we scoured the social security tables to bring you the top 10 local picks in Delaware from 2014-2012.  See where your contender(s) does or doesn’t rank in the small wonder.

Popularity for top 10 baby names in Delaware for births in 2014
Rank Male name Number of
males
Female name Number of
females
1 Liam 68 Sophia 70
2 Michael 58 Ava 65
3 Mason 57 Emma 53
4 Jacob 56 Olivia 52
5 Logan 56 Emily 44
6 William 52 Isabella 44
7 James 51 Mia 40
8 Caleb 47 Madison 37
9 Carter 47 Charlotte 33
10 Jackson 45 Avery 30

 

Popularity for top 10 baby names in Delaware for births in 2013
Rank Male name Number of
males
Female name Number of
females
1 Michael 62 Ava 58
2 Mason 60 Olivia 55
3 Liam 57 Emma 51
4 Aiden 50 Emily 48
5 William 50 Abigail 46
6 Jackson 49 Sophia 46
7 Joseph 49 Isabella 41
8 Alexander 48 Aubrey 36
9 Noah 47 Madison 35
10 John 46 Charlotte 31
Popularity for top 10 baby names in Delaware for births in 2012
Rank Male name Number of
males
Female name Number of
females
1 Michael 60 Sophia 67
2 Anthony 55 Isabella 65
3 Liam 53 Emma 63
4 Mason 53 Olivia 52
5 Christopher 52 Ava 51
6 Alexander 51 Emily 38
7 Ethan 50 Madison 37
8 William 50 Aubrey 31
9 Elijah 48 Lillian 31
10 Logan 48 Abigail 29

Updated July 13, 2015. The above table shows the 10 most frequent given names for male and female births in 2014-2012 in Delaware. The number to the right of each name is the number of occurrences in the data. The source is a 100% sample based on Social Security card application data. See the limitations of this data source. Source:  Social Security Administration

 

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Want to see where your name or some one near and dear’s hits the popularity list? The Social Security Administration charts go back 50+ years and list the top 100 for each and every year – yep, you heard correctly – back to 1960, ack! Check here to view the top 100 by every state year by year.