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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

[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...