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

[(Anonymous)]

Older son's name (Lucas) steadily rising. Younger son's name (Ezekiel) still relatively obscure. My own name (Clare) is somewhere around 700, but add an "i" and it suddenly becomes trendy. If we ever have a daughter, I suppose we will be jumping on the popular name bandwagon; the name we both love is Evelina (after my grandmother, named Evelyn).