Most Popular Baby Names 2006

[sarongsong]

Soaps?RANK..........MALE....................FEMALE
1.........AIDAN/AIDEN/ADEN..........AVA
2.........CADEN/KADEN...............ABIGAIL
3.........BRADEN/BRAYDEN/.........CAILYN/KAELYN...
BabyNames (http://www.babynames.com/Names/Popular/)

[ToSeek]

75 years from now, people with these names will be immediately identified as old the same way names like "Ethel" and "Beulah" are for us now.

[George]

Looks like the shift from Biblical names was in 2002. The top two have been on top for a few years. Which tv show was it? :)

[Delvo]

Ava and Abigail are already "old" names; I guess they just figure it won't be that way for long because the last round of people with those names will be dead before too long.

Aden/Caden/Braden? That can't be right. Those aren't even names at all!

[farmerjumperdon]

Wow. I've never heard of many, and for about half of them, I've never met anyone with the name.

[Swift]

Another example of "I'm old", but I'm not sure how to pronouce CAILYN/KAELYN. I assume it is Kay-lyn. Though I like Cail-yin :p .
And what's with all the A, B, C names, did the parents get tired of looking through the baby-names book?

[mickal555]

What about mohomad?

Michael was really popular in 1990 apparently, bah!

[Grey]

Though they don't have data for 2006 yet, I think a more reliable data set is here (http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/). This is a compilation of the names that were actually given to people, over the entire country, rather than coming from the ones members of babynames.com listed as their favorites. The disadvantage is that it considers every distinct spelling a different name, so sometimes you have to do some simple addition to compare things meaningfully if there are several spellings.

[farmerjumperdon]

Now that one is more credible. Interesting that there would be such a discrepancy between what people say they like versus what they actually do.

My name went from #15 in 1956 to #289 in 2005.

Was it something we said?

[01101001]

That particular babynames.com site seems a little whacky.

For most popular USA baby names in 2005, the Social Security System (http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/) lists:

Rank Boys Girls

1 Jacob Emily
2 Michael Emma
3 Joshua Madison
4 Matthew Abigail
5 Ethan Olivia
6 Andrew Isabella
7 Daniel Hannah
8 Anthony Samantha
9 Christopher Ava
10 Joseph Ashley

Compare with babynames.com most popular 2005

RANK MALE FEMALE

1 AIDAN/AIDEN/ADEN MADISON
2 CADEN/KADEN AVA
3 CALEB ABIGAIL
4 ETHAN EMMA
5 BRADEN/BRAYDEN/BRAEDEN CADENCE
6 HAYDEN RILEY
7 DYLAN CHLOE
8 JADEN/JAYDEN BAILEY
9 LOGAN ISABELLA
10 NOAH OLIVIA

[George]

Though they don't have data for 2006 yet, I think a more reliable data set is here (http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/). Yes, that's more like it. All males are either biblical or Christian, though not necessarily by intent.

[Swift]

Now that one is more credible. Interesting that there would be such a discrepancy between what people say they like versus what they actually do.

My name went from #15 in 1956 to #289 in 2005.

Was it something we said?
I'm surprised there is more than one person named "farmerjumperdon".
:doh:

[George]

:)

[Delvo]

Interesting that there would be such a discrepancy between what people say they like versus what they actually do.I don't believe that's what the difference is. It's probably a difference between what all people do and what those who go to "babynames.com" do. The latter group probably self-selects for a predilection for unusual names (and non-names used as names).

[Grey]

I don't believe that's what the difference is. It's probably a difference between what all people do and what those who go to "babynames.com" do. The latter group probably self-selects for a predilection for unusual names (and non-names used as names).I definitely think that's part of it. There's also the spelling issue. If I go to the Social Security list and add up Aidan, Aiden, and Aden, the combined total is enough to make it come in 8th, even though the first one to appear, Aidan, is 43rd on the list by itself. I'm also wondering about an effect that might be responsible for so many similar sounding names. For the list of Social Security names, each set of parents get exactly one choice per child. But, in looking at a list of favorites, they might have taken each person's entire list. So the relative popularity of "Aidan/Caden/Braden/Hayden/Jaden" may be from people who had decided that they would pick one of those names, but hadn't settled on which one, whereas when finally choosing a name, they would have had to narrow it down, and so only one out of the group would get a "vote" on the Social Security list. Without knowing what babynames.com did to determine the rankings, it's not possible to know whether this could have happened, but I'm very suspicious that an effect like this may be present since some of the top names listed are so similar.

[Gillianren]

75 years from now, people with these names will be immediately identified as old the same way names like "Ethel" and "Beulah" are for us now.

Sigh. Or Edith. I'm only 30, ye gods.

[sarongsong]

That's OK; google loves you: http://bautforum.com/images/icons/icon7.gif
Results 1 - 10 of about 28,000,000 for Edith
From another site:
Most Popular Baby Names for Twins (http://www.drmoz.com/babynamestwins.html)

[TriangleMan]

In the past 15 years my name only cracked the top 500 once. There is one alternate spelling but it was only in the top 500 three times. Must be an 'old' name because I've met a number of people with that name. :think:

[Gillianren]

Sarongsong, check the ages of those Ediths. For one thing, I can assure you most of them are dead; I've done the Google thing before. For another, quite a lot of them are about some trailer park in Montana that's apparently full of swinging singles. Which means, yes, porn as well.

[sarongsong]

Hmmh, sorry, didn't notice that, nor in the first 5 pages [didn't go any further] of 180,000 google Images.

[tofu]

Apparently, the Madison only became popular as a girl's name after the movie "Splash" which featured a mermaid who chose that name for herself.

For that reason alone I would stay away from that name.

I always like Claire as a girl's name, as in Debussy's Claire de Lune.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlvUepMa31o

[sarongsong]

What about mohomad?...For England and Wales:December 21, 2006
Mohammed...is 22nd in the list of most popular boys' names...Spelled Muhammad, it is the 44th most popular name...
1. Jack.............Olivia
2. Thomas........Grace
3. Joshua.........Jessica...
Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/12/21/nnames21.xml)

[Pleiades]

In the past 15 years my name only cracked the top 500 once. There is one alternate spelling but it was only in the top 500 three times. Must be an 'old' name because I've met a number of people with that name. :think:


Mine has never cracked the top 300 in the past 50 years. As you I have met many who are called my name but usually its their nickname. And for the past 15 years; it didn't make the top 1000.

[suntrack2]

names are very nice, long long ago there was a quote :what is kept in name, the old names were a nice meanings, but what about new generation's names coming on the table!!. even people have been kept their animals name like '' dodo, jojo, simbo,kambo.... khyak..khyak. (short form of laughing).

:)