social security baby names are out for 2007

[flea]

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/

Casper is at 55 now - still rising FAST. Yikes.

Dillo is at 178, still falling.

I am at 338 - rising, but still down there.

mr. flea, whose name was the #1 name for 40 years, is at #2, natch.

Contenders for Hypothetical future baby #3:
Flora: not in top 1000
Louisa: not in top 1000
Edward: 145 and drifting down

Edit: oh my god. Addison is ELEVENTH for girls. Whoa. Gavin is 32 for boys, wonder what that's about.

Comments

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Our current favorite for Hypothetical Second Girl is #48 and climbing. I'm afraid it's poised to be very, very trendy.

The ones that really scare me are the deliberate mispellings, like Alivia (#207) and Emely (#324).

[casperflea.livejournal.com]

There's a restaurant called Alivia's in my town, and I knew a girl named Aliza (pronounced Eliza).

[larisa57.livejournal.com]

Aliza pronounced a-LEE-za is an Israeli name. Do you mean that she pronounces it a-LIE-za?

[casperflea.livejournal.com]

Yep.

[casperflea.livejournal.com]

Oh, and #48? I know several. It seems to manage to hit multiple socio-cultural demographics at once.

[riarambles.livejournal.com]

I wonder how many of those mispellings are not deliberate misspellings but rather due to non-English speakers wanting to choose an English name and not knowing how to spell it. Both Alivia and Emely, for instance, are how you'd spell Olivia and Emily if you spoke Spanish and had only heard the name, not seen it written out. We actually have a few Emelys at our hospital whose parents are Hispanic and don't speak much or any English. When I used to work in OBGYN clinics and Labor and Delivery I would sometimes get parents asking me how X or Y name was suppose to be spelled. I don't know if would account for how high on the list they are, though. Just thinking out loud, as it were.