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[politicking.livejournal.com]

jumping off from that post about popularity of names...

for those who didn't know, here are the top 50 names for each gender for 2006.

Popularity in 2006

Rank	Male name	Female name
1	Jacob	Emily
2	Michael	Emma
3	Joshua	Madison
4	Ethan	Isabella
5	Matthew	Ava
6	Daniel	Abigail
7	Christopher	Olivia
8	Andrew	Hannah
9	Anthony	Sophia
10	William	Samantha
11	Joseph	Elizabeth
12	Alexander	Ashley
13	David	Mia
14	Ryan	Alexis
15	Noah	Sarah
16	James	Natalie
17	Nicholas	Grace
18	Tyler	Chloe
19	Logan	Alyssa
20	John	Brianna
21	Christian	Ella
22	Jonathan	Taylor
23	Nathan	Anna
24	Benjamin	Lauren
25	Samuel	Hailey
26	Dylan	Kayla
27	Brandon	Addison
28	Gabriel	Victoria
29	Elijah	Jasmine
30	Aiden	Savannah
31	Angel	Julia
32	Jose	Jessica
33	Zachary	Lily
34	Caleb	Sydney
35	Jack	Morgan
36	Jackson	Katherine
37	Kevin	Destiny
38	Gavin	Lillian
39	Mason	Alexa
40	Isaiah	Alexandra
41	Austin	Kaitlyn
42	Evan	Kaylee
43	Luke	Nevaeh
44	Aidan	Brooke
45	Justin	Makayla
46	Jordan	Allison
47	Robert	Maria
48	Isaac	Angelina
49	Landon	Rachel
50	Jayden	Gabriella

Comments

[politicking.livejournal.com]

i am surprised by: Kayla, Savannah & Lillian... Gabriel, Elijah, Isaiah & Issac.

also that Jayden & Aiden are so far down- i seem to know a milllllion baby boys & girls that are Jayden or Aidens!

[aaww-my-bees.livejournal.com]

I kinda wonder if they included all the spellings for Jayden and Aiden if it would be number one. I know LOTS of kids with those names(and Hayden) but they tend to have different spellings and I think thats why they're so far down.

[politicking.livejournal.com]

very true... i guess the most 'common' spellings are Aiden, Jayden, Hayden. but i know a few that are: Ayden, Aidan, Jaden, etc.

[elemmennope.livejournal.com]

Yeah, some in this community tried adding up all the Hayden/Aiden/Jayden/Kaiden etc names and BY far as a group they reached #1. I though Aiden/Aidan was higher up too, honestly.

I was also suprised by Lillian. Didn't know Addison for a girl had gotten that high already either!

[bornto-fly.livejournal.com]

yeah, but the disease is named after someone.

[politicking.livejournal.com]

list of "name" diseases/syndromes: Lou (Gehrig), Alexander, Barrett, Benjamin, Brock, Brodie, Brooke, Duncan, Hailey, Leigh...

fact is, MOST people will not associate it with a disease.

[politicking.livejournal.com]

that's nice that you do, but like i said, most people do not. i'm willing to bet that a lot of people currently associate it with Grey's Anatomy (last year i think it most viewed primetime drama).

[queen-mab.livejournal.com]

*laughs a whole bunch*

Personally, because Addison was so uncommon before Grey's Anatomy, I associate it with the disease much more than I associate the more common names like Alexander, Benjamin, Brooke, Hailey, Leigh, etc. with their diseases.

And yeah.. Grey's Anatomy does suck. The only doctor show that isn't complete crap and kicks the hell out of the other sucky doctor shows is House, M.D. Best show ever.

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

There are few names that annoy me more than Addison.

[politicking.livejournal.com]

i only know one Lily, & she is just that, Lily- not Lillian.

my son's cousin (my ex's nephew) is Kaiden. i am really shocked since the names they had picked out before that weren't bad, or that popular (except for Gage)... then they came outta left field with Kaiden! lol

[bornto-fly.livejournal.com]

someone figured this out at one point, adding up all the different spellings of -den names and found that the names ending in -den were, like, 4x as popular as jacob. it was creepy.

[thejoysofjess.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I did that over in baby_name_snark.

Here are the percentages of different spellings of Aidan added together in the top 500 names.

0.5302 + 0.4587 + 0.1647 + 0.0641 + 0.0504 = 1.2681%

Spellings: Aiden, Aidan, Adan, Aden, Aidyn. I'm sure there are more if you do top 1000, but I'm not that bored.

That actually puts it above the #1 name of Jacob because Jacob's percentage is 1.1327%, and even adding Jakob to that only changes it to 1.1857%.

I also saw about 6 versions of Caiden, 4 Braydens, 3 Jalens, and two Jaidens. And Jaiden and Jalen are considered unisex by a lot of people, so you'd have to add the girl and boy versions to get an accurate veiw of how popular the name is.

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

baby_name_snark? I must join this community...

[politicking.livejournal.com]

i like Alexei on a boy... i was a gymnast for many years, & it was around the time that Alexei Nemov was very popular ha.

i haven't heard of too many children named Presley- boy or girl. i'd imagine it on a boy, though.

[thejoysofjess.livejournal.com]

The spelling variations on Aidan and Jaiden bring them down lower, but if you add up all the spellings, they're higher.

[kitchen-poet.livejournal.com]

Landon, really? I have never met any little Landons. But it reminds me of star wars for some reason.

Oh, and Nevaeh in the top 50 just makes my head ache. :(

[eleanorgrace.livejournal.com]

I guess most of my favorite male names are in the top 50: James, Robert, Isaac, Jacob (wouldn't use, though, due to popularity), Gavin, Christian, William.
I'm really disheartened to see names like Nevaeh, Makayla, and Jayden in the top 50 names. I'm also surprised that Kaylee, Destiny, Addison, Sydney, and Katherine-with-a-K are so high up. Especially for Kaylee and Katherine (and Kaitlyn), I would have thought the variety of spellings would put each version of the name lower in the rankings.

[queen-mab.livejournal.com]

The only ones I really like on there are Grace, Lily, Victoria, William, James, John, and Gavin. The rest are bleh.

Am I the only one here who is getting really, really sick and tired of the name Abigail? I will never understand its appeal.

[x-cherrydarling.livejournal.com]

Andrew, Jack, Elijah, and Emily are all super-popular. =(

I'm surprised and happy that 3 of my favorite girls' names (Lindsay, Claire, and Maya) aren't on there either.