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Tennessee unveils top baby names of 2014

Nine-month-old Jonah Ferneau (L) and eight-month-old Story Mae Parker feed themselves solid food during dinner.
Nine-month-old Jonah Ferneau (L) and eight-month-old Story Mae Parker feed themselves solid food during dinner. Nine-month-old Jonah Ferneau (L) and eight-month-old Story Mae Parker feed themselves solid food during dinner.

The streak continues: Emmas and Williams will continue to dominate Tennessee elementary school attendance sheets for the foreseeable future.

For the fourth year in a row, Emma and William together dominated Tennessee parents’ top picks for baby names, according to 2014 data released by the Tennessee Department of Health.

William has stayed at the Number 1 spot on Tennessee’s list of newborn boy names for eight straight years, while Emma has led the girl names since 2011.

This year, two new girls’ names – Harper and Ella – broke into the top 10 list, bumping Emily and Addison out of the top ten.

Meanwhile, the most popular names for boys remain largely unchanged from the previous year. All ten top boys’ names remain from the 2013 list, though all but William and Noah changed their former rankings.