2010 Name Predictions

[pinkysmith.livejournal.com]

A blog I read had a post about the most popular names of 2010 so far so I'm posting the links to the lists below for discussion:

Nameberry's Top 100 Boys' Names So Far
Nameberry's Top 100 Girls' Names So Far
Top 100 Most Unusual Names So Far (not Nameberry)

Personally I don't find many of the "most unusual names" so unusual as in they're not real names but Haitian (b) is an interesting 2010 name...

BTW here's the blog i got the links from. So far there are 66 comments with people's kids' names and requests not to steal.

Comments

[spaceandclouds.livejournal.com]

I like more names from the unusual names list (although many are indeed not that unusual) than the normal girl's list!
I like many of the boy's Nameberry top 100, though. Literally almost all my favorites are on there. Oh well!

I don't get Haitian. I mean...I would find naming someone 'American' or 'Chinese' equally ridiculous, but why name someone after the inhabitant of a country that has an unusually miserable history?

[a-tergo-lupi.livejournal.com]

Heroes fans?

[spaceandclouds.livejournal.com]

Haitian is a character in Heroes? I've never watched a single Heroes episode in my life.
I suppose most people will still associate it with the country, though.

[a-tergo-lupi.livejournal.com]

Well, it's "The Hatian." I'm grasping at straws really. I don't get it. But, I guess it makes as much sense as Christian or America.

[spaceandclouds.livejournal.com]

"Christian" is a good point indeed =).