--- title: Noah and Emma are the Most Popular Baby Names of 2014 description: Charlotte made the Top 10 list for the first time ever canonical: https://time.com/3851623/most-popular-baby-names-2014-2/ author: Charlotte Alter article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-05-08T13:31:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:42:34.590Z og:title: See the Most Popular Baby Names for 2014 og:description: Charlotte made the Top 10 list for the first time ever og:url: https://time.com/3851623/most-popular-baby-names-2014-2/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta293d36a17a746e4/6987eee706f2c13155338204/baby-names.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Baby og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: See the Most Popular Baby Names for 2014 twitter:description: Charlotte made the Top 10 list for the first time ever twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta293d36a17a746e4/6987eee706f2c13155338204/baby-names.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # See the Most Popular Baby Names for 2014  by [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent May 8, 2015 1:31 PM UTC  Surprised baby Surprised babyEvan Kafka—Getty Images  by [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent May 8, 2015 1:31 PM UTC Noah and Emma were the [most popular baby names of 2014](http://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/), followed by a few newcomers to the top 10 list, like James and Charlotte. The Social Security Administration released on Friday its annual list of the country’s ten most popular baby names for boys and girls. James, a popular choice in the 1940s and ’50s, returned to the top 10 after missing out for several years. And Charlotte, ranked #10, made it to the list of top names for the first time ever (and the name is likely to stay there, thanks to the new arrival of Princess Charlotte Elizabeth Diana.) There’s even a newborn baby monkey named Charlotte at a zoo in Japan, although zookeepers are [considering a name change](http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/05/07/404895129/zoo-in-japan-reconsiders-charlotte-for-name-of-newborn-monkey). to avoid offending the British Royal Family. Here’s the full list of the top 10 names for boys: 1) Noah 2) Liam 3) Mason 4) Jacob 5) William 6) Ethan 7) Michael 8) Alexander 9) James 10) Daniel And for girls: 1) Emma 2) Olivia 3) Sophia 4) Isabella 5) Ava 6) Mia 7) Emily 8) Abigail 9) Madison 10) Charlotte ### See the Funniest and Weirdest Baby Photos  Shot for TIME, 2015 Evan Kafka for TIME  Shot for TIME, 2015 Photo-illustration by Evan Kafka for TIME  Shot for TIME, 2015 Photo-illustration by Evan Kafka for TIME  Shot for TIME, 2015 Photo-illustration by Evan Kafka for TIME  Personal work, 2009 Evan Kafka—Getty Images  Shot for Huggies, 2011 Evan Kafka  Personal work, 2009 Evan Kafka  Personal work, 2009 Evan Kafka—Getty Images  Personal work, 2009 Photo-illustration by Evan Kafka—Getty Images  Personal work, 2011 Evan Kafka—Getty Images  Personal work, 2009 Evan Kafka—Getty Images  Personal work, 2009 Evan Kafka—Getty Images  ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3851623/most-popular-baby-names-2014-2/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3851623/most-popular-baby-names-2014-2/"},"headline":"See the Most Popular Baby Names for 2014","datePublished":"2015-05-08T13:31:46.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:42:34.590Z","description":"Charlotte made the Top 10 list for the first time ever","url":"https://time.com/3851623/most-popular-baby-names-2014-2/","keywords":["Living","Parenting","royal baby","baby names","Noah","Charlotte"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta293d36a17a746e4/6987eee706f2c13155338204/baby-names.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Charlotte Alter","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta293d36a17a746e4/6987eee706f2c13155338204/baby-names.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Baby","caption":"Baby","creditText":"Evan Kafka—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3851623/most-popular-baby-names-2014-2/","name":"See the Most Popular Baby Names for 2014"}}]}] ```