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

[dxmachina.livejournal.com]

Addison? I weep for America.

[casperflea.livejournal.com]

America is 462.

[loligo.livejournal.com]

I am astonished that Chuckles' name *still* hasn't cracked the top 1000. It's totally in that whole Sophia-Olivia-Victoria vein that has become so trendy. (Same thing with Louisa, which is a name we considered.)

Squeaky's name has been steadily rising since 2001 and is now in the low 600's.

[veejane.livejournal.com]

I appear to have declined precipitously since 1958, although there was a nice jump between last year and this year.

In other news, I would like to beat all of collective America with a spelling dictionary.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

*snerk*

[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).

[casperflea.livejournal.com]

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

[larisa57.livejournal.com]

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

[serrana.livejournal.com]

*snerk* As C. remarked the other night, both my first and last birth names are so common as to be basically anonymous.

[casperflea.livejournal.com]

Yep.

[askye.livejournal.com]

Gavin's probably on the rise because of Gavin Rossdale formerly of Bush (the band) and current hubby of Gwen Stefani.

Addison is probably popular because of Grey's Anatomy. Maybe?

I know that someone who is pregnant really really likes McKenzie or Madison for a girl (probably spelled odd) but isn't chosing them because of they are popular. She likes Laydon (Laydun?) for a boy.

[septembergrrl.livejournal.com]

Ivy is 301, which is about steady. It's the least common name of the babies we know, too.

[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.

[zmayhem.livejournal.com]

Matilda has still not cracked the top 1000, although I've met several moms of boys her age who told me that, before they found out the gender, her name had been in their top three girl names (and, through an LJ friend of a friend, Hec recently read the blog of another West Coaster whose 7-month-old daughter shares not only Matilda's first name but her extremely unusal middle name).

I myself am #133, correctly spelled. Not sure how that number would change if you added in all the variant spellings, but I refuse to search for them because they're WRONG.