You can always count on the beginning of a new year for fresh starts, but for baby name fanatics (it's a thing, I swear!), it means the compilation of the previous year's baby name data [1] — and in 2018, there was a lot of exciting movement in the top 100 name lists for both girls and boys.
Although the official most popular names [2] list in the US will be released by the Social Security Administration later in 2019, this list compiled by BabyCentre [3] likely won't end up being *too* far off. To compile its list, "BabyCentre takes its huge database of names given to babies [during the] year and combines names that have different spellings but sound the same – like Sophia and Sofia or Jackson and Jaxon – to provide a measure of true popularity." So unlike the government's list, which will include various spellings of the same names [4], this list is able to share even more popular names [5].
Check out 2018's most popular names below, which will serve your baby's future birth certificate well if you're looking for a trendy name [6].