Americans loved tuning into the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia—and it showed in the year’s baby names! The fastest-rising name of the year on the boys’ side was Bode, like Bode Miller, the most successful male American alpine ski racer of all time. His name raced an incredible 645 spots to 783 in 2014, from 1,428 in 2013. Variants Bodie (which climbed 333 spots to 981) and Bodhi (which climbed 192 spots to 615) also had great years. Even Boden climbed to enter the top 1,000 this year at 992. Other names got a similar Olympic boost: Mikaela, like eighteen-year-old gold-medal skier Mikaela Shiffrin, rose from 616 to 573. Sage Kotsenburg, the first-ever gold medalist in men’s snowboard slopestyle, inspired a rise in the name Sage on the girls’ and boys’ sides. For boys, it jumped from 725 to 654; for girls, from 458 to 388. Other naming inspiration came from athletes Noelle Pikus-Pace, the silver-medal winning skeleton racer, and Gracie Gold, the bronze medalist figure skater. Noelleclimbed from 296 to 251 and Gracie from 166 to 162.
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