Popular Baby Names

[MrsPinecone]

To counteract the Bad Baby Names post!

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/index.html

The Social Security Administration lists the top baby names for the last billion years or so. OK, not really, but back to 1879, which is quite a while. It's pretty cool, since you can search by state, decade, year, etc.

If you don't want your child to be one of 5 Emilys, Emmas or Madisons in her kindergarten class, this is the site for you!

[Siageah]

Oh I went and checked all of the names we considered on that site! It is great. My name wasn't at all popular when I was born but is now in the top ten, I hear my name constantly. Makes me nuts. Didn't want my daughter to start out like that! (Of course there is no guarantee that in a couple of decades her name won't be in the top ten and then stuck like me, turning her head every ten minutes in the mall!)

[sbp]

That's interesting. Both of my son's names have lost popularity every year since 1991.. I had only ever met 1 Trevor before ds#2 was born, but ds#1 has 2 Trevors in his preschool class and there's a Trevor in kindergarten that plays on the playground with us after school.

[mama22qts]

We've not met another David in any of DS's classes or church, but the website claims that it's one of the most popular names right now. Oh well, doesn't really matter to me because he was destined to be a David even if everyone else in the world was David too.

And about Abigail -- I had never met another Abigail and neither had DH when we named her -- but now there are a bazillion of them. At least she doesn't have a double name like most every other child in her class...

[cutenirish]

:) our future kids names will be on the list's at some time I'm sure-- reg names but they are after our grandparents and using our middle names William Joseph and Kathrine (sp might be other way not sure) Elizabeth -- if we have two of each then who knows what othe choices will be but those are them for the 1st so we'd be covered for whom ever comes :)