Canada's Top 10 Most Searched Baby Names For 2021 Include Some Unique Ones

"Atticus" made the list as one of the most popular boy names.

Senior Writer

With a new list of the top baby names for 2021 in Canada, there are quite a few unique ones that you might not expect to be among the most searched names in the country.

Nameberry, a site with a database of more than 70,000 baby names, put out a ranking of the most viewed girl and boy names of the year in 25 countries around the world and Canada was included.

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For girls, there are a few unique names; the top five in Canada this year are Luna, Maeve, Chloe, Ophelia and Ivy.

When it comes to boy names, the most searched are even more distinctive, with the top five being Arlo, Silas, Levi, Finn and Atticus.

If you're curious about what the most popular baby names have been in recent years, you can check out which ones came out on top in the 2000s, 2010s and 2020s so far, or you can find out what the most unique names have been.

  • Senior Writer

    Lisa Belmonte (she/her) is a Senior Writer with Narcity Media. After graduating with a Bachelor of Journalism from Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), she joined the Narcity team. Lisa covers news and notices from across the country from a Canada-wide perspective. Her early coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic earned Narcity its first-ever national journalism award nomination.

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