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

[cassandre.livejournal.com]

Fun link! Charles (my 4-year-old, known as Charlie) is 63. I would have thought it would be higher. My husband is 10.

Neither my first name, Jody, nor my middle name (which is the one I actually go by) made the top 1000.

My sister's kids have more original names than mine: Shaylin (girl), Dane (boy) and Airiana (girl).

I have been curious for awhile as to how you started charting baby names.

[casperflea.livejournal.com]

Long, long ago, in a galaxy far, far away - okay, on Salon.com's Table Talk, when it was free - there was a thread about baby names. One of my Buffy friends was really into them, too. Then somebody linked to the Baby Name Wizard (http://www.babynamewizard.com/) and associated blog. Then I actually had a kid, and that's when I got serious. To the extent that I'm actually serious - there are commenters on the Baby Name Wizard blog who are SERIOUS.

It appeals to both my anthropologist and my linguist sides!