Most Popular Names of 2012

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

Has this been posted yet? I didn't see it. The most popular names for 2012 are out now: http://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/

You can go here to see the fastest risers/fallers: http://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/rankchange.html

I also went to behindthename.com and found which names were new on the list for 2012.


Boys:
Neymar
Brentley
Kyree
Thiago
Kyrie
Jionni
Yael
Oakley
Yousef
Juelz
Austyn
Axton
Lucca
Truman
Eliot
Zaid
Leroy
Sheldon
Dariel
Kaysen
Mack
Titan
Ameer
Briggs
Immanuel
Kase
Maison
Simeon
Anton
Emory
Graeme
Jael
Karsen
Jarrett
Apollo
Denzel
Foster
Kylen
Augustine


Girls:
Cataleya
Litzy
Kenia
Colette
Paislee
Adley
Winter
Ariah
Coraline
Charlize
Emory
Estella
Elissa
Emmaline
Dallas
Azalea
Everly
Lillyana
Emmalynn
Annalee
Evalyn
Raylee
Aubrielle
Bayleigh
Katrina
Alaysia
Celine
Monroe
Estelle
Harlee
Jazzlyn
Zahra
Collins
Azariah
Milena
Alisa
Kora
Aubriana
Aya
Dalilah
Devyn
Landry
Sofie
Jessa
Katalina

Comments

[morphinae.livejournal.com]

Please fix your cut. Thanks!

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

Whoops! I'm still not used to that new editor. It should be good now. :)

[mommy.livejournal.com]

good to see Aiden down to #10.

[morphinae.livejournal.com]

No worries :)

[nobodynomore.livejournal.com]

Oh, so another year of being harassed by random people who say when they hear my three year is named Sophia, "Oh...I guess you're not into unique!" And then they walk away with their Jaydyn or Mackynzy.

And it still boggles my mind that Madison is still popular.

[stacyinthecity.livejournal.com]

The French word for "house" made it on the list? Interesting.

[rekkless.livejournal.com]

Luca, Elliott. (spelt correctly tho)
Emory (I'd spell it Emery, thats my cats name) haha

Winter, Monroe, Zahra (although I like it spelt Zara)

[qtshorty1625.livejournal.com]

Surprised to see Yousef and Zaid b/c I work with people w/ the last name of Yousif and someone with the first name of Ziad (which I'm assuming are derivatives one way or the other). It's funny, b/c I was thinking Kyrie would make a pretty name. . .but it means Lord in Greek. (And even with the 2 syllable pronunciation, I would still make the association).

I like:
Girls:
Colette
Emmaline
Lillyana
Emmalynn
Annalee
Katrina
Aubriana

[gemmagic.livejournal.com]

Both of the boys names I like (Jonah and Rowan) have gained in popularity. The girls name I like (Adele) wasn't even on that list! A lot of the girls names are ick, and I noticed a lot of the same names with different spellings (Kaydence and Cadence, Lilyana and Liliana, Kali and Cali... No offense, but I'm not really sure why someone would name their daughter Kali).

[cremepuff.livejournal.com]

Question is, do they pronounce it like "Callie" or "Kaylee?" Sadly, I'm betting on the latter.

[cremepuff.livejournal.com]

That was supposed to be in response to gemmagic.I'm not sure why LJ did that...

[mini-vulpini.livejournal.com]

It's still #1 by far if you add up all the different spellings of it.

[roseofjuly.livejournal.com]

Dude, I wonder how I am going to react in 20 years when I am hiring people and I get a resume on my desk that says Juelz.

I'm surprised that Sheldon, Celine, Estelle, Dallas, Coraline and Denzel weren't already on the list, though. Coraline came out a few years ago.

It's always interesting to see movie roles or celebrity names pop up on here - I'm guessing that Sheldon surged because of The Big Bang Theory, and Cataleya because of Colombiana. I'm not sure why Paisley/Paislee became so popular all of a sudden, though; one of the girls I went to high school with named her daughter Paisley and I hate it.

[roseofjuly.livejournal.com]

Yeah, didn't it become popular with that movie Splash in the late 1980s? It wasn't even a real name before then (which, if I remember, is what Tom Hanks says to the mermaid).

I checked and the movie came out in 1984. Sure enough, Madison entered the lists for the first time in 1985, and skyrocketed to the top 10 very quickly.

[juniorfan29.livejournal.com]

People are behind on the times and just now starting to catch on to Brad Paisley? I know Paisley is one of my guilty pleasure names for that reason.