There's definitely a new gendered name dichotomy going on. We'll have to wait a few years before these trends start showing up in the census data though.
There's definitely a new gendered name dichotomy going on. We'll have to wait a few years before these trends start showing up in the census data though.
> https://www.whattoexpect.com/baby-names/list/top-baby-names-...
Liam and Mateo aside, the top 20 could have been pulled from 1840. Tradition still reigns, and Victorian-era names for boys are the rule rather than the exception.
Liam, the #1, is rather weird -- kind of modern and pan-ethnic -- and there are a lot of low-class-coded names like Ronin, Odin, Cash, Royal, etc. These tend to be confusing headscratchers more than they are aggressive, though.
Names that end with -er are in general quite rare. That said, it's true that Archer is in the top 100, and Gunner is somewhere around #500.