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

[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.