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Jolie Rouge
05-08-2005, 05:26 PM
WASHINGTON - Here is the list of the most popular baby names for 2004, based on applications for Social Security cards. Position on the list in 2003 appears in parentheses:

Girls:

1. Emily (1)

2. Emma (2)

3. Madison (3)

4. Olivia (5)

5. Hannah (4)

6. Abigail (6)

7. Isabella (11)

8. Ashley (8)

9. Samantha (10)

10. Elizabeth (9)

Boys:

1. Jacob (1)

2. Michael (2)

3. Joshua (3)

4. Matthew (4)

5. Ethan (7)

6. Andrew (5)

7. Daniel (8)

8. William (11)

9. Joseph (6)

10. Christopher (9)

Source: Social Security Administration.

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On the Net: Social Security Administration: http://www.ssa.gov


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schsa
05-09-2005, 05:08 AM
And not one of them is my name!!

budlite
05-09-2005, 05:22 AM
mine neighter have two boys
Jack which i thought would have been there

and
Kyler not popular YET LOL

Peanut818
05-12-2005, 06:59 PM
None of the names I wanted before DS was born, although DH said Logan was in the top 10 for boys names, yet I don't see it!!!!!!! He just wanted Keegan and thought I'd change if I thought Logan was going to be popular.

First I wanted Cody for a boy and Caitlyn for a girl, then changed to Logan for a boy and still Caitlyn for a girl. There was now way it would have been Keegan, Demetri, Dakota or Devon like DH wanted, I just don't like those names so any one who has children by that name do not flame me I just do not like them, but that is my opinion and you know what they say about opinons!!!!!!!!!!!!

Donnagg123
05-12-2005, 08:54 PM
both of my boys were this:

Lucas (kid#2)
Popularity of the male name Lucas Year of birth Rank
2004 67
2003 71
2002 75
2001 83
2000 83
1999 90
1998 93
1997 98
1996 93
1995 92
1994 95
1993 95
1992 106
1991 107
1990 112

Dorian (kid#1)
Popularity of the male name Dorian Year of birth Rank
2004 438
2003 453
2002 421
2001 418
2000 399
1999 506
1998 506
1997 515
1996 517
1995 504
1994 531
1993 539
1992 524
1991 525
1990 521


so I guess that means they are becoming more popular names, lol (a little bit)

Jolie Rouge
04-28-2011, 04:05 PM
The Most Hated Baby Names in America
Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer,
2 hrs 30 mins ago

When it comes to names, everybody's got an opinion. But while figuring out what names people like is pretty simple -- the U.S. Social Security Administration keeps a list of the most popular baby names each year -- figuring out what people hate is trickier.

It turns out that in the case of names, love and hate aren't mutually exclusive. A new informal survey of the most disliked names in America finds that popularity often breeds backlash, as a quick track to baby-name fame seems to also trigger hate for that name. Among the most-hated "trendy" names are Jayden, Brayden, Madison and Addison.

The most commonly cited name that put people's teeth on edge was Nevaeh, or "heaven" spelled backward. That name didn't exist until the 1990s, but it took off in popularity in 2003, shooting from the 150th most common baby name in that year to the 31st most popular in 2007 (as of 2009, it stood at No. 34).

"Nevaeh in particular seems to stand as this symbol … for what people don't like in modern baby names," Laura Wattenberg, author of "The Baby Name Wizard: A Magical Method for Finding the Perfect Name for Your Baby" (Three Rivers Press, 2005), told LiveScience.

The most hated baby names

Wattenberg did the informal survey of hated names for her blog, The Baby Name Wizard. She scoured general-interest message boards online, looking for conversations about baby names that make people cringe. She included only two message boards that were specifically for baby names, because name enthusiasts tend to know trends and might skew the results. The other boards included a motorcycle travel forum, a video game fan board and several parenting forums. The participants skewed female and under the age of 60, Wattenberg said. All told, more than 1,500 names were cited. Wattenberg calculated which names came up the most.

Wattenberg is quick to point out that the survey isn't scientific, but it does have the advantage of capturing the names people spontaneously hate. A formal survey that gave people an option to rank names would likely bias people by putting ideas into their heads, Wattenberg said.

The survey also turned up a few interesting trends. The first is that people hate gender-bending names, particularly when a masculine name becomes feminine, as with Madison (which tied for second-most-hated for boys with 16 separate mentions) and Addison (which tied for sixth with eight mentions). They also hate names they can't spell, including Kaitlyn, which got eight mentions and tied for sixth. (People say "Caitlin" is fine because it's traditional, Wattenberg said, though the original Irish pronunciation of that spelling would be closer to "Kathleen.")

Similar-sounding names that explode in popularity all at once usually become victims of their own success, Wattenberg found. The most hated boys' names -- Jayden, Brayden, Aiden and Kayden -- all rhyme and all shot up from obscurity during the last decade. Among girls, a spate of "Mc"-names sparked annoyance: Mackenzie, McKenna and Makayla all made the top 10.

At the other end of the spectrum are people who hate ordinary names. This group is in the minority, but they pushed "Michael" into the top 10 most disliked names for boys. "They really object to anything ordinary," Wattenberg said. "'Michael' or 'Matthew,' the boringness of those names infuriates them."

Easy versus unique

Baby names have become more diverse in recent decades, said Jean Twenge, a San Diego psychology professor and author of "Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled -- and More Miserable Than Ever Before" (Free Press, 2007). In the 1950s, the top 25 boys' names and top 50 girls' names were given to half of all babies born. Today, it would take the top 134 boys' names and top 320 girls' names to cover half of all babies born.

Twenge, who wasn't involved in Wattenberg's survey, said there are two schools of thought when it comes to baby naming. On the one side, there are parents who want their kids' names to stand out, she told LiveScience. On the other side are those who see names as a form of communication. "Those are the people who are saying, 'I don't like the weird spellings and I don't like the really strange names,'" Twenge said. "The common names are good because they're easy for other people."

The individualistic viewpoint seems to be more common, said Michael Varnum, a doctoral candidate in social psychology at the University of Michigan. (Varnum said he "didn't take too much offense" to his name appearing on the most hated list.) "Americans really prefer to not be particularly conventional or conformist in choosing names for their children," Varnum told LiveScience. That might help explain why names perceived as trendy, including Madison and Jayden, get so much hate: Jayden barely existed as a name until the 1990s, and it now stands at No. 11 in the most popular boys' name list.

Why names pop

No one really understands why certain names suddenly catch on in popularity -- or fall out of favor. According to Frank Nuessel, a University of Louisville professor and the editor of NAMES: A Journal of Onomastics, one survey done in the United Kingdom found that 40 percent of parents said their first concern in choosing a moniker for their child was how the name sounds. Another 38 percent said they looked to family tradition, while 10 percent said they used the name of a famous person.

In recent decades, people have moved toward "whatever feels fresh," Wattenberg said. That means moving away from common names, and common sounds, from the previous couple of generations. That may explain why many people hate the names Gertrude and Bertha. Hard, Germanic consonants were once thought to convey opulence. Now, Wattenberg said, "we live in an age of vowels," and poor, guttural Gertrude doesn't stand a chance.

One caveat, Wattenberg said: "We're starting to run out of vowels. We've gone through the As and the Es, and now you're seeing more Os and Is. … After that there's going to be nowhere to turn with the vowels, so I'm curious to see if we start to see Gertrude and her friends a decade or so down the line."

Wattenberg said the response to the most hated name list has been so strong that she's hoping to conduct a more systematic survey of a larger, more defined sample of people. She doesn't want to label names "good" or "bad," she said, but it could be useful for parents to know how others will react to their prospective name. "Everybody is looking for this impossible dream, which is a name that everybody knows, everybody loves and nobody is using," Wattenberg said. "As you can imagine, it just doesn't work that way."

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Jolie Rouge
09-11-2012, 03:01 PM
Most popular baby names, 2011 vs. 1911: ‘William’ stands the test of time
By Eric Pfeiffer, Yahoo! News | The Sideshow – 5 hrs ago

Popular baby names in the U.S. have changed dramatically over the past 100 years. But some things never change, including our nation's love of the name "William."

Data from the Social Security Administration shows that virtually none of the top 20 most popular names from 1911 is still in the rankings in the most recent statistics from 2011.

For example, the most popular names in 2011 were "Jacob" for boys and "Sophia" for girls. But in 1911, they were "John" and "Mary." Again, as mentioned above, neither "John" nor "Mary" even appears in the top 20 for 2011:

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/most-popular-baby-names-2011-vs-1911-william-163322452.html

But one name has resolutely stood the test of time: William. One hundred years later, "William" has fallen only one slot, from No. 2 to No. 3, in the list of popular male names. "James" has also managed to stick around, dropping from No. 3 in 1911 to No. 17 in 2011.

For girls, only "Elizabeth" has stayed on the list, dropping just four spots over the past century, from No. 7 to No. 11.

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In recent years, the authors of Freakonomics have famously tracked the ever-evolving choice of baby names in America. And other sites have joined the trend, pointing to changing baby names as a sign of the decline of civilization. But for all the changes in the top 20, the list of popular baby names still reads as fairly tame.

What would be truly fascinating is comparing the top 100 names of 1911 with those of today. What were the 1911 equivalents of "Braxlee" and "Diesel"?

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