SSA Name Game

[queen-mab.livejournal.com]

I noticed that some people tend to be a little more adventurous with the girls' names they like and then less adventurous or more traditional with boys' names when they're picking baby names out.


List your top 10-15 names for both boys and girls and list find how they all ranked in the Social Security Administration's baby name ranking database. Then compare how your boys' and girls' names ranked.

Here are mine, based on the popularity of names in 2005:

Girls:
Annabelle - #238
Arden - Not in top 1,000
Celestia - Not in top 1,000
Charlotte - #135
Fae - Not in top 1,000
Helena - #548
Gemma - Not in top 1,000
Idony - Not in top 1,000
Isolde - Not in top 1,000
Lisette - #959 (but in 2001)
Lucia - #366
Rosalind - Not in top 1,000
Rose - #333
Scarlett - #421
Tessa - #271

Boys:
Caspian - Not in top 1,000
Dorian - #426
Edward - #134
Gavin - #47
Jack - #34
James - #17
John - #18
Jude - #306
Lennon - Not in top 1,000
Leo - #258
Ronan - #606
Rowan - #441
Sebastian - #86
Wesley - #187
William - #11

I only have two names that are not in the top 1,000 for my boys' but more than half of my girls' names haven't been in the top 1,000 in the last 15 years. Strange how that happens. I wonder why that is? Anyone have theories?

And if anyone else wants to do this, go on ahead. =)

♥ Brandi

Comments

[malkin767.livejournal.com]

I think boys are more apt to get picked on or bullied because of their names than girls are, so people tend to go with "safer" choices.

[miss-tee.livejournal.com]

I can't think of a top 10 or 15 but I will try and do a top 5
Girls
Eleanor - #265
Sophie -#134
Hannah -#7
Mia -#17
Adara - not in top 1000

boys
Asher -#288
Caleb -#35
Elijah -#31
Jonah -#184
Gabriel -#28

[so-there.livejournal.com]

I actually pitched a bunch of boys names *because* they were too popular. as far as actual use goes, I prefer names that are not in the top 1000, male or female.

Top 5

[ky-whitney.livejournal.com]

Girls
Willow - 534
Neela - not in top 1000
Trinity - 48
Kena - not in top 1000
Arabella - 805

Boys
Easton - 393 (my son's name)
Colson - not in top 1000 (my baby in utero)
Keegan - 240
Landon - 61
Parker - 119

Based off 2005

[sarahgeddes.livejournal.com]

Girls:
Brynn #419
Savannah #35
Jocelyn #87
Isabel #89
Natalie #18

Boys:
Harrison #211
Luke #41
Scott #235
Mark #114

I still don't have very many name favorites :(

[trissyd.livejournal.com]

My theroy is - parents usually want stronger, masculine names associated with their sons and more frilly, girly names for their daughters - therefor girls names become so adventurous, anything with a girlie sound... I'm confusing even myself here. I hope you get what I mean.

Either way, my turn!

Girls
1. Bianca - #177
2. Layla - #143
3. Carys - #NOT IN TOP 1000
4. Isabella - #6
5. Cecily - #NOT IN TOP 1000
6. Paris - #206
7. Iris - #360
8. Lillia - #NOT IN TOP 1000
9. Ariel - #222
10. Alana - #169
11. Quinn - #676
12. Piper - #260
13. Olivia- #5
14. Juliet- #587
15. Willow- #534

Boys
1. Drake - #247
2. Deacon - #803
3. Lyric - #NOT ON TOP1000
4. Zachary- #29
5. Owen - #60
6. Reid - #423
7. Kai - #239
8. Gage - #148
9. Micah - #151
10. Chase - #82
11. Cruz - #515
12. Noah - #23
13. Beckett- #NOT ON TOP1000
14. Carter- #76
15. Tarek - #NOT ON TOP1000

Honestly, I'd say mine are pretty even.

[jojodancer77.livejournal.com]

Here is top 5..cause thats all I could think of

Willow - #534
October - not one there
Arwen - not on there
Aislyn - not on there
Quinn - #303

Elliot - #306
Gideon - #690
Everett - #531
Atticus - #794
Spencer - #178

[bloomingtulip.livejournal.com]

It feels like there are more girl names than boy names but that could just be my perception

[http://users.livejournal.com/swizzle_/]

Arissa - Not in top 1000
Alana - 169
Abrielle - Not in the top 1000
Lillian - 49
Ellia - Not in the top 1000

I have given a lot more thought to girls names since we are having a girl. So, honestly I don't have any favorite Boys names. What I use to think was a unique boys name is now the super popular, Adian. I never heard of an Adian when I was growing up. So, I think boys names are more adventurous then they use to be. It's all relative. And I think there are only so many combinations for masculine sounding names. You can't add an a to the end of Jason to change it up.

[ifancylust.livejournal.com]

1. lux -
2. jane - #466
3. eloise -
4. adeline - #547
5. bree -
6. elinor - #265 (as eleanor)
7. isla -
8. tabitha - #486
9. dagney -
10. vivienne -


1. jude #306
2. august #634
3. elliott #416
4. luca #401
5. liam - #104
6. kai - #239
7. beckett
8. ambrose
9. greer
10. shepherd

[ifancylust.livejournal.com]

i saw lyric on there. i can't remember what it's ranking was though.

[trissyd.livejournal.com]

For girls ;)!

[sarahrose.livejournal.com]

These are in no particular order except the first five of each are my top fives.

Girls:
1. Channing (not in the top 1000)
2. Eden (321)
3. Margaret (151)
4. Jacey (785)
5. Lorraine (not in the top 1000)
6. Sherrie (not in the top 1000 - neither is Sherry)
7. Stacie (not in the top 1000 - Stacy is 647)
8. Scarlett (421)
9. Meredith (367)
10. Chloë (19)
11. Skye (423)
12. Hellen (not in the top 1000 - Helen is 330)
13. Julianne (755)
14. Marianne (not in the top 1000 - neither is Maryann)
15. Zenith (not in the top 1000)

Total not in the top 1000 - 7/15


Boys:
1. Nathaniel (69)
2. Kale (758)
3. Kane (716)
4. Kellen (518)
5. Korrin (not in the top 1000)
6. Christopher (9)
7. Michael (2)
8. Zane (237)
9. Maine (not in the top 1000)
10. Matthew (4)
11. Zaiden (not in the top 1000)
12. Kevin (33)
13. Erik (183)
14. Jake (102)
15. Giovanni (158)

Total not in the top 1000: 3/15

[lastcastle.livejournal.com]

I think the reason that parents give more adventurous names to their daughters is because of gender stereotypes associated with names. Boys need more solid, serious names because they're going to grow up and be serious lawyers and doctors and stuff, but with girls anything goes, including giving your daughter a name that makes her sound like a five-year-old for her entire life. It doesn't matter as much so people get more creative.

Also, a lot more girls names are in use than boys'. If you look at the SSA list and get it to display the number of births, you'll see that for very popular names, for a given ranking boys will have around 4,000 more births than girls. At around #230 or so, girls start having more births for a given ranking than boys. This is just a by product of it being trendier to be weirder with girls' names and be more conservative with boys'. So a boys' name ranking 900 is less popular than a girls' name ranking 900, which means that all these rankings need to be taken with a grain of salt. It's all relative. That's why I really like the NameVoyager http://babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/lnv0105.html , it graphs names based on number of births. So if you type in Mary you can see that it declined in popularity for awhile but remained ranking 1st for a long time anyway.

May-not in top 1000
Talullah-not in top 1000
Ramona-not in top 1000
Susan- 609
Susanna- not in top 1000
Clementine-not in top 1000
Cecily-not in top 1000
Anona-not in top 1000

Julian-74
Desmond- 473
David- 14
Leif- not in top 1000
Linus- not in top 1000
Simon- 254
Wade- 507
Caspian- not in top 1000

The girls' name ranking 507 is Marie. It had 578 births and Wade had 476. Wade is similar in popularity to Susan, ranking 100 places higher.

[trivher.livejournal.com]

Boys
Gideon - 690
Avery - 215
Teagan - 869
Ian - 68
Blair - Didn't rate
Dante - 265
Revolution - Didn't rate
Julian - 74
Sidney - 832
Harrison - 211

Girls
Astrid - 931
Irene - 585
Marian - Didn't rate
Fiona - 378
Savannah - 35
Cassandra - 185
Juliet - 587
Lilliana - 576
Natasha - 312
Noelle - 474

[trivher.livejournal.com]

Ambrose! Yippee!!

:-)

[dosequisgirl.livejournal.com]

Boys
Damien (my son) - 199
Kieran - 573
Adrian - 65
Everett - 531
Drake - 247
Charles - 56
Deacon - 803
Greyson - 564, Grayson - 253
Elian - 859

Girls
Arden - Not in top 1,000
Alaina - 252
Eliana - 305
Peyton - 131
That's all I can think of.

[sensualquills.livejournal.com]

Eleanor (265)
Emma (2)
Lila (448)
Olivia (5)
Charlotte (135)
Emily (1)
Emelia (434)
Isabella (6)
Rose (133)
Helena (548)

[hotchpot.livejournal.com]

Anne: 437
Elisabeth: 449 (Elizabeth is 12)
Louisa: not in the top 1000 in the last 15 years.
Jane: 466
Martha: 509
Felicity: 690
Caroline: 83
Cecilia: 279 (Cecelia is 657)
Virginia: 444
Eugenie: not in the top 1000 in the last 15 years. (Neither is Eugenia).
*Ilse: not in the top 1000 in the last 15 years.
*Manon: not in the top 1000 in the last 15 years.
Mary: 73
Elinor: not in the top 1000 in the last 15 years.

John: 18
Daniel: 7
George: 139
William: 11
Joseph: 10
Edward: 134
Charles: 56
James: 17
Nicholas: 15
Andrew: 6
Robert: 39
*Wyatt: 81
*Mason: 42
Kenneth: 122

*-probably wouldn't use, guilty pleasures.

[monalyssasmile.livejournal.com]

Thatcher - Not in top 1000
Deacon - 803 going up
Adam - 64 going down
Atticus - 794 going up
Oliver - 209 going up
Ryder - 295 going up
Caleb - 35 Pretty even
Kaiis - Not in top 1000
Dimitri - 951 changes significantly every year
Porter - 574 going up

Ada - 798 going up
Aurelia - Not in top 1000
Louisa - Not in top 1000
Lena - 477 went up but fluctuated through the years
Lily - 39 going up
Addison - 107 going up
Felicity - 690 went up but fluctuated through the years
Briar - not in top 1000
Poet - not in top 1000
Julia - 31 went up, but very steady through the years

[bornto-fly.livejournal.com]

Annelise (Annie) - not in top 1000
Maren - 922
Emily - 1
Olivia - 5
Louisa - not in top 1000
Amelia (Amie) - 84
Julianna (Jules) - 216
Abby (Abigail) - 4
Meg (Megan) - 40
Lauren - 21


Sam(uel) - 21
Jake (Jacob) - 1
Eli(jah) - 31
Michael - 2
Luke - 41
Atticus - 794
Judah - 523
Danny (Daniel) - 7
Asher - 288
Leo - 258

[sonneta.livejournal.com]

Sophia - 11
Nadia - 179
Hope - 184
Theresa - 637
Contessa - Not in the top 1000.

Oliver - 209
Alexander - 12
Nathaniel - 69
Spencer - 178
Zachary - 29

[sonneta.livejournal.com]

Oooh, Zane, I like that. Not one I would have thought of.

[eleanorgrace.livejournal.com]

James: 17
Edward: 134
Robert: 39
William: 11
Peter: 161
Christian: 22
Gavin: 47
Keegan: 240
Jacob: 1
Brighton: not ranked
Taylor (male): 224

Louise: 1002 in 1991 (last year ranked)
Maureen: 941 in 1997 (last year ranked)
Bridget: 328
Joanna: 282
Taylor (female): 24
Gertrude: not ranked
Gretchen: 758
Charity: 654
Margaret: 151
Jade: 113

But another thing to think of is that names like James, William, Robert, etc. have so many nick names that the ranking of the full name might be less relevant.

[eleanorgrace.livejournal.com]

Does the name Revolution have some special significance to you? I've never heard it as a name before, so I was curious.

[fleckerbug.livejournal.com]

I'm just going to all of mine since I don't have that many. And for fun, what it was the first year it was in the top 1000, or 1880, since that's as far back as it seems to go. Okay, now that I'm done I can see I put in too much effort and gave too much info. Oh well. :)

Girls:

Brenna (My daughter's name, although her full first name is actually Brenna Rose)-- 330 in 2004, when I named her, 353 for the last year on record. Interestingly, to me anyway, her name made the top 1000 for the first time in 1971 and steadily increased until it peaked at 234 in 1995.

*Secret first name for next girl-- not in the top 1000 ever. Hell, I can't even find it in baby books.

Lily-- 39; 231 in 1880 with a decrease in popularity in between until the 1980s.

Eliza-- 310; 85 in 1980. Became decreasingly popular until the early 1960s when it fell off the list. Started regaining popularity fairly steadily in the early 1970s.

Edith-- 628; 28 in 1880. If we use this name, it will only be with the mn Catrine, to semi-mirror my name, Meredith Catherine.


*Mary-- 73, 1 in 1880. This name ranked 1 from 1880-1946, and varied between 1 and 2 until 1966. Steadily decreasing in popularity since. I really don't like this name, especially given my name, but it is one of my husband's favorites. We will probably not use it.

*Alice-- 414, 8 in 1880. More or less steadily decreasing since 1880. Another one of my husband's favorites. I really don't like it either but like it better than Mary. Not sure if we will ever use it. I feel kinda bad since I picked out first daughter's name, although my husband agreed with it. Our new super secret name has also grown on him, he said mostly because I like it so much (lol, yeah that made me feel bad). Basically, we just brain storm together and we'll glom on to names we like that the other comes up with.


Girl middle names:

Esme-- never in the top 1000. Will be the middle name for secret girl name. ;)

Grace-- 14; 19 in 1880. Decreasing in popularity from the mid-1880s to the 1970s, when it then started gaining in popularity again. Always fairly popular, never less popular that the 300s.

Catrine/Catrione-- never in the top 1000.
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Boys:

David-- 14; 18 in 1880. Despite the high ranking, it's actually decreasing in popularity with a peak of 1 in 1960!

Jonah-- 184; 714 in 1880. Started increasing in popularity in 1970, but has been increasing in leaps and bounds since the mid-1990s. Didn't even make the top 100- except a few times between 1900-1970. Before then was not that popular, but who knows since the list only goes to 1880.

Patrick-- 108; 67 in 1880. Decreasing in popularity. This one is neat in that I can see 2 distinct peaks between 1880 and 2004. A family name, would be the mn for Anthony, or vice versa.

Anthony-- 8; 103 in 1880. Increasing in popularity. A family name. I didn't used to like it because it was the name of a guy I hated in high school, but thought it would be nice paired with Patrick; both of the names are the names of 2 of my maternal uncles-- Patrick is deceased and Anthony I am very close to.


Middle names:

Edward: 134; 11 in 1880. Decreasing in popularity since the late 1800s. This is my husband's middle name. I used to hate it, but it's grown on me as a middle name. I still don't like his first name-- Albert; he goes by 'Ted'. He is the III and we want to end that unfortunate pattern. It would be the mn for Jonah.

Christopher-- 9, 139 in 1880. currently decreasingly in popularity after being very popular during the 1970s and 80s. A family name, but more just because we like it. Being a family name, and the name of two of my ex boyfriends and one of our friends were actually strikes against it.

[fleckerbug.livejournal.com]

Regarding popularity, I don't know why we like more popular boys' names. My husband and I just really like a lot of biblical names, which have been gaining in popularity as of late. I'm also the one coming up with the more unusual girls' names and my husband's girls' names aren't that unusual. A few of my girl's names are very common, like Rose and Lily, but I like those more for the meaning than the sound.. or both, really. I also really just don't care if a name is common or not. With Brenna Rose, my favorite flowers are roses, my favorite color is red and I like fire. Brenna means flame (according to one source-- the first source I used, all others it's raven). Also, I simply have more interest in girls names and, as someone else said, there are just more of them. It's funny, I want boys just as much as I want girls, but I think more of girls names and most stuff I look at or occasionally buy for future hypothetical baby is girls' stuff.

Also, as someone else said, male names tend to be passed down more. There are just so many more 'common' boys' names.

meredith

[fleckerbug.livejournal.com]

Ooh. I'm on someone's list! :D

I hate Zane, but just because I had a junior high rival with that name. ;)

[dancing-crazy.livejournal.com]

I did top five as well.

Kate - #140
Amelia - #84
Audrey - #77
Ellie - #183
Annabeth - Not On List

Jonas - #387
Elias - #188
Charles - #56
Leo - #258
Tobias - #488

I'm so sorry to see Amelia and Audrey ranked so high. Amelia will be the new Emily, I fear.

[rockstargrrrlie.livejournal.com]

I think a lot of it is that there happens to be a lot more girl's names than boy's names. It seems to be more "acceptable" to invent a girl's name, as well.


Girls:

Envy: not in the top 1000
Lilith: not in the top 1000, but Lily is 39
Ariadne: Not in the top 1000
Tatiana: #292
Zara: Just entered at #920
Alana: #169
Amalia: Not in the top 1000 although Amelia is #84
Chaya: #759
Marlee: #780, but #467 as Marley.
Liliana: #191

Boys:

Conner: #128, but #48 as Connor.
Kishan: Not in the top 1000
Chandler: #340
Julian: #74
James: #17
Gabriel: #28
Damien: #199
Ahmed: #557
Elliott: #416
Beckham: Not in the top 1000

[mandyjalo.livejournal.com]

Girls:
***Annelise: not ranked
Carolyn (it's my deceased grandma's name): 488
Bella: 219
Iris: 360
Rose: 333
Clara: 246

Boys:
*Isaac: 50
*Vincent: 111
Gunnar: 538
Owen: 60
Emerson (my partner would never let us name a child that, but I love it): 442...but it's listed as a girl's name
Otto: not listed

[naturalgoddess.livejournal.com]

Manon is a beautiful choice!!

[eleanorgrace.livejournal.com]

I love Isaac. I didn't list it, but it's one of my favorites. I don't know any, so I'm surprised it's so high.

[ex-bluebonn.livejournal.com]

olivia - 5
anna - 23
julia - 31
audrey - 77
rebecca – 82
amelia – 84
joanna - 282
miriam – 287
emilie - 485

michael – 2
william - 11
nicholas - 15
noah - 23
thomas - 40
vincent - 111
scott – 235
conor – 484
shea - 767
mac – not in top 1000

[wake-tonight.livejournal.com]

Freya - not in top 1000
Jane - 466
Raphaela - not in top 1000
Emmeline - not in top 1000
Ruby - 132

Finlay - not in top 1000
Julian - 74
Luca - 401
Lachlan - not in top 1000
Oliver - 209