Social Security's Top 1000 Names for 2005

[museofmyself.livejournal.com]

For your viewing pleasure. Or in my case, horror. My daughter's name, Lily, has jumped to #39!! Nobody was naming their daughter Lily back in 1996! I thought I was giving my child a lovely, unusual name. Argh. ;)

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

*EDIT* Just page down and select Top 1000 under Popularity.

Thoughts? Surprises? Comments?

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/-glass-/]

nah. harry is 526, and he's the main character!

a lot of names were repeated, only with crappy spellings. woohoo?

who names their kid aryan? or german? or messiah? rohan is kind of ew, as well. dylan was 60 for a girl? that is such a masculine name. that's stupid.

my name is now 986.

lucille has been a favorite of mine for a while and it's been increasing over the years. it's still low, but getting higher. 914. and astrid was 931?

i hope they stay that low until i get to have kids. =\

[jessiac.livejournal.com]

That low? Harry's no 5 (if I remember correctly - definitely in the top ten) in the UK!

[lostrocket.livejournal.com]

WOW, "Aryan" is the WORST alternative spelling ever. How ignorant.

[mrsduryee.livejournal.com]

I just realized. For Aaron? I couldn't even figure it out for a while!

[lostrocket.livejournal.com]

I was actually thinking of it as an alternative spelling for "Arien," but now that you mention "Aaron" it occurs to me that that's not so much a popular name. It's a Tolkien creation. So...alternative spelling or not, it's still ignorant.

[neroli.livejournal.com]

I'm betting that's not German (JER-mun), but Germán (her-MAN, where the h is kind of like the ch sound in "ach"), which is used in Spanish-speaking places.

Rohan is a name used in India, but it's hard to tell how many of the parents may have been influenced by Lord of the Rings.

[neroli.livejournal.com]

sorry, her-MAHN.