Emma and Noah top list of most popular baby names in 2014

The Social Security Administration in the U.S. has provided a list of the top 1,000 baby names for each year, with records dating back to 1880. The top baby names that year were John and Mary. John is now No. 26 and Mary has fallen to No. 120. The 2014 list was topped by Emma and Noah. For girls, Emma was followed by Olivia, Sophia, Isabella and Ava. For boys, Noah was followed by Liam, Mason, Jacob and William. Noah was the top boy’s name for the second year in a row.

Emma didn’t actually rise this year — Sophia fell.

Laura Wattenberg, founder of the baby-name website babynamewizard.com

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