"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

[duckduckcaboose.livejournal.com]

I have only lived in Colorado for 7-ish months, so I still consider Georgia my "home state." For replacements, I'm using names which do not appear in the US top 500. I think many of them are in the Top 500-1000 range, which to me is not "popular" at that point, but still not weird or unfamiliar. Here are the Top 10 for Georgia:
1 William -> Wilson
2 Christopher -> Killian
3 Mason -> Edison
4 Joshua -> Jedidiah
5 Jayden (let's be honest, if you like this name you're probably not going to like unpopular names)
6 Jacob -> Gerard
7 Michael -> Matthias
8 Elijah -> Elisha
9 James -> Jamie
10 Aiden -> Egan

1 Emma -> Elsa
2 Isabella -> Mirabella
3 Madison -> Monroe
4 Olivia -> Ophelia
5 Ava -> Eve
6 Abigail -> Abilene
7 Sophia -> Sonia
8 Chloe -> Corinne
9 Emily -> Emmeline
10 Elizabeth -> Lisette