"if you like... you might love" game

[dustthouart.livejournal.com]

Here's an idea for a game.

Look up the top ten (or five or twenty) boys and girls names for your country/area, and suggest a similar, less popular alternative that might appeal to the same person who would pick the original name.

(Fellow Canadians, StatsCan does not have national statistics sadly, but most provinces have stats.)

I'll go first with then top ten for 2011 for British Columbia:
If you like... you might love...
1. Liam -> Declan
2. Ethan -> Eli
3. Mason -> Mercer
4. Lucas -> Nicholas
5. Benjamin -> Benedict
6. Jacob -> Caleb
7. Logan -> Ronan
8. Nathan -> Eamon
9. Owen -> Ewan
10. Alexander -> Xavier

1. Emma -> Gemma
2. Olivia -> Octavia
3. Sophia -> Serena
4. Ava -> Ada
5. Chloe -> Charis
6. Emily -> Cecily
7. Isabella -> Theodora
8. Ella -> Helena
9. Abigail -> Adelaide
10. Sophie -> Lucy

WDYT of my alternatives?

Comments

[hermione-vader.livejournal.com]

They've done this on Nameberry a few times. Your alternatives are great. I especially love Helena for Ella, Octavia for Olivia, and Nicholas for Lucas.

Missouri, USA

1. Mason -> Nolan
2. William -> Vincent
3. Noah -> Micah
4. Jacob -> Josiah
5. Liam -> Lorcan
6. Jackson -> Anderson
7. Aiden -> Callum
8. Logan -> Lance
9. Elijah -> Elias
10. Ethan -> Ewan

1. Emma -> Elsa
2. Sophia -> Sylvie
3. Olivia -> Livia Separate name, believe or not.
4. Ava -> Adeline
5. Isabella -> Mirabella
6. Addison ->Adrienne
7. Abigail -> Abrial
8. Chloe -> Clara
9. Madison -> Magdalena
10. Lillian -> Leonora