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[arbus.livejournal.com]

babynames.com has announced the most popular 100 names of 2009 listed here

what are your thoughts? any surprises? disappointments?

newcomer girls:
vivienne (highest ranking girl newcomer at #60)
stella
harper
esme
rosalie
zoey
isla
adalyn
lorelei

newcomer boys:
nolan
jude
jonathan
rhys
emmett (highest ranking newcomer overall at #54)

i have many thoughts on this, but primarily...
noah is number two and rising? thats sad. that was our top boys name. also, i was surprised to see amelia/emilia at number one for girls. no idea it had shot up so quickly. the husband and i had amelia on our list too. bummer.

ETA: this is the babynames.com list, not the SSA list

Comments

[harinakshi.livejournal.com]

I noticed Amelia only had a black arrow, not a red arrow, which means it moved less than 10 spaces, and if you look at the social security website for top names, you'll see that in 2008 Amelia was 37/38, so if it really did move up to 1, well, it'd have a red arrow. Maybe by THEIR count, but this obviously isn't the official top names list.

[arbus.livejournal.com]

this is not the SSA list. its the babynames.com list, so the rankings are different.