# Your top 5 boy/girl names **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 4, 2018, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-5-boy-girl-names/805865 "2018-01-04T20:15:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Reecejackox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Reecejackox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reecejackox)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2018, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-5-boy-girl-names/805865/1 "2018-01-04T20:15:30Z")
For any reason I will start Boys Steve Jake Kurt Mark Dean Girls Sarah Laura Clare Lauren Amy ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2018, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-5-boy-girl-names/805865/2 "2018-01-04T20:32:07Z")
Boys Porter Reuben Duncan Hendrix Sawyer Girls Calliope Avery Clarice Genevieve Charlotte ---
**Author:** ![Patx2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/73ab20/32.png) [@Patx2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patx2)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2018, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-5-boy-girl-names/805865/3 "2018-01-05T00:41:05Z")
Boys: Josh Sam Michael David Patrick Girls: Ana Mya Sophie Gabrielle Elizabeth ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2018, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-5-boy-girl-names/805865/4 "2018-01-05T01:00:51Z")
Girls: Sonia (or any variant. My wife happens to have this name, but it’s a name I loved before I met her) Katarina (one of my daughter’s names. Actually, it’s the Polish diminutive _Kasia_ “KAH-shah” that I really like.) Casimira Éva Svetlana (I apparently have a thing for foreign-sounding names) Boys: (Here I will be boring) Michael James David John Christopher ---
**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2018, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-5-boy-girl-names/805865/5 "2018-01-05T02:42:52Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > . . .Girls > Calliope . . . Once when I was taking the touristy riverboat ride in New Orleans, I heard one old gal say to another: “look they have one of those steam-powered organs, you know, a kaleidoscope.” ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2018, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-5-boy-girl-names/805865/6 "2018-01-05T03:42:52Z")
I heard a girls name; Creole. I thought it was cute. Boys names; Ronin, Aryton, I wish one my kids would name a boy Beck, for obvious reasons. I have a niece named Wren, I just love that name. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2018, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-5-boy-girl-names/805865/7 "2018-01-05T05:44:07Z")
Boys Eli Thomas Henry August Michael girls Mary-something (which could be all five choices in and of itself) Anna Natasha Louise Amy ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2018, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-5-boy-girl-names/805865/8 "2018-01-05T12:49:57Z")
Thomas James William Edward Joshua Annabel Eloise Alice Annaliese Eliana My boys name picks are dead traditional, and the girls are very samey. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2018, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-5-boy-girl-names/805865/9 "2018-01-05T15:09:51Z")
> [@jaycat](#): > > Once when I was taking the touristy riverboat ride in New Orleans, I heard one old gal say to another: “look they have one of those steam-powered organs, you know, a kaleidoscope.” I read somewhere that along the Mississippi it was pronounced variously as kal-eye-oh-pee, kally-ope, or steam pai-anna.