The Data Is Out — This Is What Parents Named Their Babies In 2018

Is your baby's name on the list?

It's the time of year when BabyCenter releases its annual report on the year's most popular baby names. Here are 2018's coolest (and most WTF) naming trends:

Names inspired by Fortnite — the wildly-popular online video game — shot up the charts.

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Ramirez — the name of the beloved soldier character — jumped 57% over 2017. The names of the "skins" used to costume the characters also caught on. Leviathan was up 46% for boys, Bunny rose 30% for girls, and Rogue increased 47% for girls and 21% for boys.

Also popular were zen names that added some calm to this increasingly dumpster fire-like world of ours.

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Parents in 2018 chose baby girl names like Peace (up 66%), Harmony (up 15%), Rainbow (up 26%), and Hope (up 10%). They also were increasingly interested in serene, earth-friendly names for boys like Ocean (up 31%) and Sky (up 38%).

The next, uh, Jenneration of the Kardashian-Jenner clan helped name a lot of babies in 2018 too.

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Some parents of girls took cues from Kylie Jenner as Stormi, her daughter's name, jumped 63%. Other parents of girls chose Dream — the name of Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna's daughter — helping it increase 42%. As for the boys, Kim and Kanye's Saint leapt 42%, while Reign, the name of Kourtney's third child, was up 27%.

Another celeb family — that of Fixer Upper stars Chip and Joanna Gaines — also had an impact on the baby name charts.

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For starters, Magnolia, the name of the Gaines' business empire, was up 21%. But the names of their kids were also impressively on the rise: Emmie (up 13%), Ella (up 8%), Drake (up 23%), and Crew (up 4%).

Lastly, healthy foods were an inspiration for a lot of parents who named babies in 2018.

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These names were on the rise for girls: Kale (up 35%), Kiwi (up 40%), Maple (up 32%), and Clementine (up 15%). Herbs and spices also had newfound popularity: Saffron was up 31% for girls, Rosemary was up 20% for girls, and Sage was up 15% for boys.

Those were the trends! Now here are the Top 10 lists for 2018:

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1. Jackson (Ranked No. 1 for the sixth consecutive year)
2. Liam
3. Noah
4. Aiden
5. Caden
6. Grayson
7. Lucas
8. Mason
9. Oliver (New to the top 10 this year)
10. Elijah

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1. Sophia (Ranked No. 1 for the ninth consecutive year)
2. Olivia
3. Emma
4. Ava
5. Isabella
6. Aria
7. Riley
8. Amelia
9. Mia
10. Layla (New to the top 10 this year)

To see the full top 100 names of 2018 plus more of the year's baby-naming trends, visit BabyCenter.