baby names!

[flea]

Today's the day the Social Security baby name lists for 2008 come out (they deliberately release them for mother's day, awww.) http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/

This year's top 10 are hardly surprising, although Emma has knocked Emily out of the #1 spot for girls:
1 Jacob Emma
2 Michael Isabella
3 Ethan Emily
4 Joshua Madison
5 Daniel Ava
6 Alexander Olivia
7 Anthony Sophia
8 William Abigail
9 Christopher Elizabeth
10 Matthew Chloe

Addison is still #12 for girls (was #11 last year) and my possibly least favorite name ever, Jayden, is #11 for boys. (And Brayden is #50. Why, people, why. Brayden is what a donkey does.)

Casper's name is up to #54 (was #88 the year we named her, was #161 10 years ago).
Dillo's name is still dropping, down to #183.
My name peaked last year and is down to #348.
mr. flea's name is, well, #2. His middle name, though, is #691 and falling.

How 'bout you?

Comments

[casperflea.livejournal.com]

Me too. I guessed wrong with Casper.

[serrana.livejournal.com]

I am surprised, because I always think of that as being of the same vintage (and therefore relative popularity-for-girls) as Herself's name.

[casperflea.livejournal.com]

Oh, Herself's is fascinating! It has a double peak - late 30s and early 50s - but is top-50 from 1931-1964. Whereas Casper's is overall more popular, and also has a different pattern. It peaked at #10 in 1915 and bottomed out only at #289 in 1977 (Herself is down into the 700s). It was top 50 until 1941, but if trends continue may hit top 50 again next year.

[serrana.livejournal.com]

Hunh -- whereas Nana, who Herself is named after, was born in 1918.

Although Herself isn't even the first Herself Lastname; there were a couple in the 1800s.