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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

[daydream11.livejournal.com]

I find the religious name thing interesting, because few people notice unless it's an odd choice in context. Like nobody would blink twice a an Adam, a Noah, or a Matthew most of the time, except when it's the unusual choice. Hmmm...

Big tizzy because his cousin's situation is the reversal of mine - Christian among nons - or tizzy because his situation is just like mine?

[hwar.livejournal.com]

The family is very religious (Pentecostal) and they felt that an Elijah would be teased about being a prophet or something. I guess because the Elijah story is told a lot at their church (being the official anti-Pagan I suppose). A Biblical name that is too Biblical for the Christians I guess!

[daydream11.livejournal.com]

That's odd. At my church my pastor holds Biblical names above all others, something about the name being a huge influence on a child's personality and children tend to embody their names. He named his kids Josiah, Jeremiah, and Keturah for that purpose - a king, a prophet, and Abraham's wife. *rolls eyes* I wonder if my love for "heathen" names is partly a response to my pastor's ridiculousness.

[harinakshi.livejournal.com]

My son's father is Catholic and I am Atheist. He refused the name Elijah because he felt everyone would suspect we were both Jewish since it's a Hebrew name. Well, he's an idiot and not in our lives so I stuck with the name Elijah, but I have, several times, had people bring up the bible after I tell them his name or just straight out ask what church I go to. I honestly didn't think it was that religious of a name. When I think religious names I think Isaiah or Matthew, Noah, Gabriel, etc.