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BlackChampagne -- no longer new; improvement also in question.: Most Popular Baby Names



Friday, May 18, 2007  

Most Popular Baby Names


The US Social Security Administration has just released their annual tally of the most popular baby names for the past year. And here it is.

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Jacob
Michael
Joshua
Ethan
Matthew
Daniel
Christopher
Andrew
Anthony
William
Emily
Emma
Madison
Isabella
Ava
Abigail
Olivia
Hannah
Sophia
Samantha


The boy names are really boring/common, right? It's not just me? I've known at least ten guys with each of those names, and the only surprising news here is that Michael isn't #1, for a change. The female names are a bit more interesting, and while it's odd that the top 2 are basically the same name, at least people are at last sick of stupid IQ-sapping pop names like Britney and Jessica and Jennifer. Old fashioned, formal-souding names seem to be in as well, judging by 1900s appellations like Abigail, Isabella, and Sophia. And happily, there's only one stripper name on the list, though it's not such a happy development for all those cute little baby Madisons out there.

My favorite part of the list? The line right below the table.
Note: Rank 1 is the most popular, rank 2 is the next most popular, and so forth.
Just in case you'd forgotten that it was a US government site, they had to throw that bit of numb-skulled idiocy in to help you remember.

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It's not just me? I've known at least ten guys with each of those names, and the only surprising news here is that Michael isn't #1, for a change.

To some extent, though, how common you find those names depends on how popular those names were when you were born, since that leads to your peers' names.

So I'm born in '88, and Jacob and Ethan are pretty non-standard for me, since they weren't that popular in the 80's. Whereas I know approximately eighty million Dave's...


 

I didn't even notice the lack of David on the list. surprised by that, since the other male names seem to be perpetually popular. I've known a ton of them as well; hell, I sat at a dinner table with two of them on Tuesday night.


 

Why didn't you wear your Lord of the Clans t-shirt to mess with them (and the other fansite people)?


 

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