Gender-Neutral Baby Names Are On The Rise & You Won't Find 'Sarah' Or 'Josh' On This List

If you're trying to come up with a unique name for your baby and you also want it to be gender-neutral, you're certainly not alone.

New data released by software company BeenVerified shows that gender-neutral baby names are not only on the rise but at an all-time high, meaning you won't find common names from the 90s like Sarah, Emily, Josh or Nick on the list.

BeenVerified says it looked at baby name records from the U.S. Social Security Administration dating back to 1880 as part of its research.

It found that gender-neutral names have been slowly getting more popular since the 1960s to an "all-time high this year" at nearly 15% of given birth names in the U.S.

In its findings, BeenVerified notes that few names are "truly gender neutral," which they describe as a name that is evenly split between boys and girls.

It ranked the names by how closely the names saw a "50-50 split between boys and girls in 2022."

The name Robin came out on top. The company says 100 years ago the name was mostly male, but became primarily a female name over time. Now the name is split.

Of the 637 children named Robin last year in the U.S., 50.4% were girls and 49.6% boys, according to BeenVerified.

However, it looks like Charlie was the most popular baby name in the top 10 most gender-neutral names in 2022.

The software company says more than 4,400 boys and girls took the name last year.

Here are BeenVerified's top 20 gender-neutral baby names of 2022:

1. Robin
2. Justice
3. Bellamy
4. Blake
5. Tatum
6. Charlie
7. Azariah
8. Finley
9. Armani
10. Jamie
11. Ocean
12. Rory
13. Dakota
14. Alexis
15. Phoenix
16. Emerson
17. Skyler
18. Layne
19. Ari
20. Chandler

In its findings, the company says no name was "truly gender-neutral," but the name that came closest to it was the name Kerry, which was split as 49.4% girls and 50.6% boys.

These are BeenVerified's top 20 gender-neutral baby names between 1923-2022:

1. Kerry
2. Emerson
3. Jessie
4. Jackie
5. Harley
6. Quinn
7. Riley
8. Jaime
9. Frankie
10. Casey
11. Skyler
12. Peyton
13. Pat
14. Jody
15. Kendall
16. Rowan
17. Johnnie
18. Marion
19. Dominique
20. Reese

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