This year, out of the top 100 or so names for boys and names for girls, these monikers wound up ranking on both lists. The SSA recently released a rank of the top 1,000 most popular baby names used in the United States last year, separated by sex. But they're all beautiful, and unlikely to leave with you with baby-name regret. Some are common for everyone others are traditionally associated with one gender but are increasingly flipping to the other one. If you're one of the parents interested in unisex baby names, these are trending gender-neutral names for 2023. But parents, it seems, are less and less likely to adhere to conventions about which names belong to which column.

And from its data, we can see that there are some names that still seem most heavily associated with one gender. And more and more parents are opting for names that could fit for any gender: According to a study cited in The Atlantic, 'In 2021, 6% of American babies were bestowed androgynous names, approximately five times the number in the 1880s.' And that's only getting faster: According to research done by baby-naming site Nameberry and the New York Times, which looked back at 100 years of baby names, there was an 88% increase in the use of unisex names between 19.įor now, though, the Social Security Administration (SSA), which keeps data about the most popular baby names, still separates the name list by boys and girls. Any name could be either a boy name or a girl name, so it's kind of silly to separate them. One day, the need for gender-neutral name lists will be obsolete.

Androgynous girl models