Mere speculation...

[ky-whitney.livejournal.com]

I understand that babycenter.com rank for 2006 is speculation as of now, but I was amazed by how popular some of the names I liked for this baby was.

According to babycenter.com... here are the names I liked and their ranking:(

99. Peyton
80. Cooper
77. Parker
75. Brady
64. Tristan
62. Cole
59. Hayden
55. Dominic
41. Christian
32. Landon
22. Brayden
16. Connor
13. Caden
7. Noah

I feel so trendy :S

Comments

[screaming--pink.livejournal.com]

I suppose it could be worse, right?

[ky-whitney.livejournal.com]

At least the 'trendy' name that I picked isnt in babycenter's top 100 this year nor social security's top 100 of last year.

[scouty.livejournal.com]

I feel so trendy :S

so do I


77. Parker (http://photobucket.com/)
64. Tristan (http://photobucket.com/)
62. Cole (http://photobucket.com/)
59. Hayden (http://photobucket.com/)
55. Dominic (http://photobucket.com/)
32. Landon (http://photobucket.com/)
16. Connor (http://photobucket.com/)
7. Noah (http://photobucket.com/)

[ky-whitney.livejournal.com]

I was amazed about Dominic. That was the name my husband REALLY REALLY wanted.

[zorianna.livejournal.com]

I like almost all of those that you listed too. I don't want my kid to have to be Landon H. or Brady H. because these names are getting super popular and there's going to be 3 Landons and 4 Bradys in their classes by the time they start school. :-( I always liked being the only one with my name in my class and only having like 3 other people in the whole school with the same name.

[ky-whitney.livejournal.com]

There was only one other Whitney during my entire schooling career and she was three grades above me (thus, we only had one year together). I loved people not having to refer to me as Whitney H. but rather just Whitney.

[zorianna.livejournal.com]

Exactly! It wasn't till I got to high school that there was more than one person with my name in the same grade as me.

[sotypical42483.livejournal.com]

I highly highly doubt there would ever be 3 Landons or 4 Bradys in one class. Besides looking at ranking, you need to look at HOW MANY kids were actually named those names. Yes they're fairly common and yes they're trendy, but the pool of names people choose from has grown SO MUCH that the number of kids getting each name declines. Although, with the -aden trend, a kid likely WOULD be surrounded by kids with similar names. I don't think Landon/Brady are huge enough to warrant that though.

Wait... am I in a roundabout way encouraging the use of Landon and Brady? Ugh. I didn't mean to! lol.

[zorianna.livejournal.com]

I wasn't being literal. I'm just saying I don't want my kids to have to use the first letter of their last name in school to distinguish them from other kids with the same name because they got so popular when they were once really uncommon.

[krosp.livejournal.com]

It's not really the end of the world if that does happen every now and then, though. I was the only Claire throughout primary school, and in highschool there was a whole heap of Claires, and now I'm alone again. I don't think I ever got called Claire S even when there were three Claires in my class. I just got spoken to directly, or if someone had to specify which one, they'd use our whole last name. Some names have nicknames too, to distinguish between two. It's a minor inconvenience and a bi annoying when it happens, but if you adore a name I don't think it's worth using one you like less just in case you fear them ever meeting someone with that name.

However, I would not recommend naming someone something if it's been the number 1 name for years - there can be too much of a good thing. I guess it's just up to you how popular you are willing to let something be.

Anyway this wasn't fully directed at you, just my response to the idea that it's bad to have a letter after your name.. sorry it ended up so long!

[corielcries.livejournal.com]

If that is correct then Christian is going down in popularity. That makes me excited because it is one of my top five boy names. =]

I can't believe Landon could be 32. I didn't know it was that popular.

[ky-whitney.livejournal.com]

Apparently West MI is a giant part of the trendiness curve. Landon is really popular around here too :S

I adore Christian too!

[lastcastle.livejournal.com]

really, don't feel too bad yet. The babycenter lists can be wildly inaccurate as far as what's really going on in lieu of the fact that all they reflect are the naming tastes of babycenter posters. For example, the 2005 babycenter list doesn't have any hispanic names on it... so it doesn't exactly reflect the heterogeneous population of the US. Also, Aidan was #1 in 2005 on babycenter, and on the SSA lists it was #43. For girls, Kaitlyn is listed as #4 on the babycenter list but it was actually #34 on the SSA list in 2005. Likewise Landon ranked ten places higher on the babycenter list last year as well.

The lists can be inaccurate both ways too, i.e. Christian was #31 on the babycenter list last year but was really #22 over the whole country.


Also, especially for girls, the sheer number of names in use in the last few years has skyrocketed, so ranking # isn't necessarily the best way to get a feel for how many of them out there there really are. There's an awesome site for this, http://babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/lnv0105.html, it's an interactive thing where you type in a name and it'll graph the number of people named it every year, and you can find out it's ranking by holding your mouse over a year. So if you look at Emily, for example, it's been #1 for the last three years, but the numbers of little Emilys have gone down by about 500 in the last two or three years. Just somthing to think about.

I hope this wasn't too long, and was interesting

the 2005 lists:
http://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/popularnames.cgi
http://www.babycenter.com/general/babynaming/pregnancy/1459677.html

[lastcastle.livejournal.com]

also, Mary is a really good name to look at the the NameVoyager to get an idea of what I was talking about with the numbers issue... from 1890s through the 1950s it was constantly ranked #1, but over that time the usage fell from 30,000 Marys per million babies to around 16,000 Marys per million babies.

[sotypical42483.livejournal.com]

the SS list doesn't take in account other spellings though. I'm not sure if this poll does, but Aidan is NOT #43 if you include Aiden, Ayden, Aidyn, etc.

[lastcastle.livejournal.com]

I don't think it does... but even if it did, I've gone through and added those things together before for other names, and it never really changes the ranking by that much, unless there happen to be two equally popular spellings of the same name.

[sotypical42483.livejournal.com]

I can't figure out why you're surprised. All of those names are EVERYWHERE.

[julieannie.livejournal.com]

On a positive note, guy trends v. girl trends are different. The number one name for guys is actually used more frequently than the number one for girls and so on but when you hit around 25-30 the guy frequency drops really low. Male names are saturated in that pool of 30 and after that you are a lot safer. So somewhere around Landon is the cutoff.

[lavandersparkle.livejournal.com]

I ♥ Caden, and Hayden.