Top baby boys’ names of 2018

The registrations have been counted, the numbers have been crunched and now the team at BabyCentre can bring you the top 100 boys’ baby names of 2018. What’s more, we’ve studied the movers and shakers within the chart to reveal which boys’ names are hot, or not, with parents in 2018.

Muhammad has kept his crown for the second year running and Oliver held tight to the runner-up position. Noah jumped three places to take third, joining fellow new entrant Leo in the top five. The pair’s debut at the top of the charts came at the expense of George and Jack who slipped to six and seven respectively.

Only two new entries made it into the top ten. Freddie and Arthur squeezed out Jacob and Oscar. Rising an impressive 18 places Arthur was also a top 20 new entry, along with Henry, Theo, Archie and Thomas. Parents also sent the pet form of Thomas soaring up the charts as the highest chart climber. Tommy, which was tipped by BabyCentre as setting a British bad boy trend, rocketed 50 places to land at number 47.

There was more drama elsewhere as the choices of UK parents caused further upheaval in the bottom half of the chart. Alex flew into number 54 as the highest top 100 new entry while BabyCentre parents shunted Ahmad, a new entry last year at number 53, out of the chart.

Lewis managed to stay in the top 100 but plunged 32 places while classic John soared 41 to claim number 56. Other rapid climbers included Theodore, Carter and Louie while Aaron, Jamie, Toby and Ryan were among the fastest fallers.

Grayson, Sam, Felix, Louis, Jasper and Aayan joined Alex as top 100 new entries this year with Aayan only just squeezing in at number 100. The seven new entries pushed out Syed, Abdul, Parker, Levi, Evan, Joel and, of course, Ahmad.

1.Muhammad

+0

2.Oliver

+0

3.Noah

+3

4.Harry

-1

5.Leo

+2

6.George

-1

7.Jack

-3

8.Charlie

+2

9.Freddie

+7

10.Arthur

+18

11.Alfie

+6

12.Henry

+10

13.Oscar

-4

14.Theo

+12

15.Archie

+8

16.Jacob

-8

17.Joshua

-4

18.James

-3

19.Ethan

-5

20.Thomas

+4

21.William

-9

22.Logan

-4

23.Lucas

-4

24.Jackson

-13

25.Max

+6

26.Isaac

-1

27.Finley

-7

28.Adam

+16

29.Alexander

+3

30.Teddy

+10

31.Mason

-4

32.Harrison

+6

33.Elijah

-3

34.Daniel

+7

35.Elliot

+14

36.Joseph

+3

37.Arlo

+26

38.Dylan

-5

39.Liam

+7

40.Sebastian

+3

41.Hunter

+27

42.Rory

+31

43.Reuben

-8

44.Luca

+4

45.Benjamin

+5

46.Albie

+30

47.Tommy

+50

48.Finn

+29

49.Samuel

-12

50.Caleb

+1

51.Riley

-6

52.Edward

-18

53.Ezra

+19

54.Alex

new!

55.Toby

+24

56.Ryan

+13

57.Jude

-3

58.Zachary

-11

59.Frankie

+34

60.Luke

+10

61.Nathan

-9

62.Jayden

-33

63.Theodore

-8

64.Matthew

+2

65.Jenson

-4

66.Hugo

-9

67.Roman

+23

68.Reggie

+21

69.Jake

-4

70.Carter

-10

71.Louie

-35

72.Ollie

-8

73.Harvey

-14

74.Ali

+10

75.David

-17

76.Grayson

new!

77.Bobby

+8

78.Harley

-7

79.Gabriel

+13

80.Stanley

+8

81.Ronnie

+14

82.Michael

-2

83.Albert

-1

84.John

-28

85.Sam

new!

86.Aiden

-65

87.Jesse

-9

88.Blake

-1

89.Felix

new!

90.Kai

+1

91.Louis

new!

92.Eli

-9

93.Tyler

-18

94.Jasper

new!

95.Aaron

-53

96.Jamie

+3

97.Lewis

-23

98.Ellis

-31

99.Austin

-13

100.Aayan

new!

Looking for more name inspiration?

• Want to know what’s behind the choices of UK parents? Have a look at our 2018 baby naming trends as well as our predictions for the hottest names of 2019.
• Expecting a girl or keeping it a surprise? Check out the top 100 baby girls’ names of 2018.
• Find international inspiration with our top baby names around the world in 2018.
• What’s your naming style? Take our fun baby naming personality quiz!

To capture true popularity, our exclusive baby name data combines names where the pronunciation is the same, but the spelling is different. Using the BabyCentre ‘how does it sound in the playground’ rule, we help you know exactly how popular each name is, even if parents choose to go with a creative spelling. For example, Jackson, Jaxon and Jacson or Louis, Louie and Lewie.