Are you kidding me?!

[blissurrenderd.livejournal.com]

So I'm browsing through the S.S. website at the 1000 most popular names in the 2000's, and I see...Baby. It's #964 and 994 baby girls have the name in the last 5 years...

(Also, 1022 have been Unique...)

Do people really have THAT hard of a time with names that they don't even give their baby one?!

Comments

[debrrra.livejournal.com]

I bet it's because of Dirty Dancing.
can you imagine if that girl got a time-out?
"NOBODY PUTS BABY IN A CORNER." lolol

[kthartline.livejournal.com]

OMG! That's freaking hillarious! The first thing I thought of was DD too.

[ginky.livejournal.com]

You too could be Sandy Unknown!

[blissurrenderd.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I see. I just didn't think it would be on the name list if it was because of indicision. Thanks!

[ginky.livejournal.com]

Well, the interesting part is that the SSA won't give an SSN to a person named Infant. It's surprising that they'd do it for Baby.

[springtide-hfa.livejournal.com]

me, being the choir geek I am, saw SSA, and thought "soprano, soprano, alto," and then proceeded to wonder how that was of any significance to naming a child.

xD

[elemmennope.livejournal.com]

It's a placeholder for people who haven't picked a name yet. The paperwork gets submitted as Baby Boy Thompson, for example.

[blissurrenderd.livejournal.com]

Ah, ok. I was kindof thinking that but then I thought it wouldn't be on the list if it wasn't the real name. Makes sense now! I hope no one actually DID name their baby Baby...

[annieareyouokay.livejournal.com]

Haha, I look to look here http://babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/lnv0105.html and look up "Unknown", "Baby", and "Infant".

[cluckydude.livejournal.com]

Hmmm - seems like people have a much harder time naming male babies, if that is why they appear as names. Interesting.

[darabelle.livejournal.com]

I think Baby is a great nickname, but as a legal name? Ehhhh no.

[sarahrose.livejournal.com]

The first thing I thought was Dirty Dancing. I love that movie. But that wasn't even HER real name, lol.

Then I realized that it's an indecision thing, like others have said.

[twinklieetoes.livejournal.com]

Haha i believe it.
it took my parents 3 MONTHS after my baby brother was born, to come up with a name. so they "named" him baby.
in the mean time, they were fighting with 2 different names:
- Coby Arizona Bay William Bergeron.
- Chad Arizona Bergeron.

Even after the Chad name was decided, Baby was stuck, and he was called Baby well until he was four, LOL.

[maelwaedd.livejournal.com]

Ugh, the paperwork for Coby would have been horrible.

[purple-gaze.livejournal.com]

My brother had baby on his name tag in the hospital though we picked his name in time for the paperwork.
Because of our last name it said baby lamb lol.

[darabelle.livejournal.com]

that's cute lol

[darabelle.livejournal.com]

My baby name book says that Unique was actually a popular name long ago. It doesn't give specifics but it is part of a list of names that were in the top 1,000 American names at some point in the 20th century.