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The Most Popular Haitian Baby Names

In the interest of getting you what you're looking for, this page makes a terrible fudge of the statistics. The truth is, it's impossible to know what the most popular Haitian baby names are. There's no central authority gathering and collating data, no registry that's open to private citizens--no data, basically. But by mining a couple of unofficial sources of data, I've created lists of the most common names among Haitian university and graduate school applicants, and among babies, children, and teens in sponsored school programs and other relief programs aimed at the rural working class.

There's also a massive table of Haitian girls' names, which I'm cleaning and editing as part of my ongoing project to create reliable frequency data. While the names below belong to children and young adults, the names on the linked table belong to middle-class adults born in the 1940's through the 1990's.

Girls' Names

City names

The most popular names among educated young Haitian women born in 1981 to 1993 are:

  1. Stéphanie
  2. Fabiola
  3. Esther
  4. Tamara
  5. Roseline
  6. Cassandra
  7. Farah, Phara
  8. Lovely, Lovelie
  9. Darline
  10. Samentha
  11. Vanessa
  12. Nadège
  13. Rachelle
  14. Judith
  15. Manoucheca
  16. Mardochée
  17. Beatrice
  18. Fabienne
  19. Mirlande
  20. Natacha
  21. Wideline
  22. Johanne
  23. Madeleine

Country names

The most popular girls' names among rural Haitian children and teens born in 1995 to 2013 are:

  1. Widelene (twice as common as #2 and #3)
  2. Mirlande, Myrlande
  3. Islande
  4. Lovelie, Lovely
  5. Judeline
  6. Angeline
  7. Esther
  8. Chedeline
  9. Jessica
  10. Rose-Merline
  11. Madeline
  12. Rose
  13. Medjine
  14. Samantha
  15. Esterline
  16. Nephtalie
  17. Jesula
  18. Roseline
  19. Fredeline
  20. Guerlande
  21. Marie
  22. Gaelle
  23. Jenniflore
  24. Lourdes-Gina
  25. Fabienne
  26. Anaïca
  27. Nadia
  28. Kimberly

Boys' Names

City names

The most popular names among educated young Haitian men born in 1981 to 1993 are:

  1. Junior
  2. Emmanuel
  3. Mackenson, Makenson
  4. James
  5. Peterson
  6. Samuel
  7. Ricardo
  8. Jeff
  9. Stanley
  10. Ronald
  11. Johnson
  12. Jackson
  13. Evens
  14. Daniel
  15. Frantz
  16. Josué
  17. Gregory
  18. Robenson
  19. Jude
  20. Jonas
  21. David

Country names

The most popular boys' names among rural Haitian children and teens born in 1995 to 2013 are:

  1. Stevenson
  2. Stanley
  3. Samuel
  4. Peterson
  5. Daniel
  6. Wilson
  7. Jameson
  8. Evens
  9. Ricardo
  10. Emmanuel
  11. Junior
  12. Wilguens
  13. Simon
  14. Schneider
  15. James
  16. Mickenson
  17. Wilky
  18. Kervens
  19. Sandley
  20. Wesley
  21. Davidson
  22. Joseph
  23. Anel
  24. Watson

Updated 1/17/2014

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