Popular Baby Names

[sabotai]

No, I didn't get a hooker pregnant (I hope) :D

I've been compiling a names list for all countries and cultures (ie, Russian names, Japanesse names, German names, ect.) (just started) for future use and came across lists ofr popular baby names. Some of the more popular names kind of took me by surprise.

The most popular boy name for new-born babies in 2002 was Jacob. 5th was Ethan. The 2nd most popular baby name in 2002 for a girl was Madison. 3rd was Hannah. 7th was Abigail.

It just seems strange that these are the new popular names. Ethan? Madison? Did something cause these names to be popular in 2002?

And for fans of the name Kirk, it was 985th. Brulio was 1000th for boys and Keeley was 1000th for girls.

[jetpunk2000]

Was Dennis Green there?

[jetpunk2000]

I heard a strange name the other day. I can't recall the name exactly, but it was so damn weird. My first thought was, "Lady, do you hate your kid or something."

[Denny Green]

I'm partial to Denny.

[Ksyrup]

We're looking at names right now for our expected May baby. It's funny, when we chose Caitlin in 1999 for our first one, we had no clue that we were choosing a name that had become "trendy." Only after I saw that Heather Locklear's character on that TV show was named Caitlin and we noticed an abnormal number of Caitlin's at my daughter's pre-school, did we realize we had unintentionally chosen a trendy name.

But yeah, to answer your question, boy's names, especially, are quickly changing. From the Robert's and John's to the Ethan's, Tyler's, Brandon's, Austin's, etc.

Our next one is also going to be a girl, and right now we're heavily favoring McKenzie. Which is one of those Madison-type names. I guess we're going to be guilty once again of picking a fashionable name.

[sabotai]

Don't do it Ksyrup! Stay away from the trend! Actually, Mackenzie was 43rd in 2002. McKenzie doesn't show up. So I don't know how much fo a trend it is or if it has exploded recently.

For the sake of your baby, though, don't choose some fucked up spelling. There's a reporter on ABC News who has the name Jennephr (or something like that). Her parents must had done a lot of weed...

Michael still goes on strong, though. It was #2 in 2002.

[Ksyrup]

Originally posted by sabotai
Don't do it Ksyrup! Stay away from the trend! Actually, Mackenzie was 43rd in 2002. McKenzie doesn't show up. So I don't know how much fo a trend it is or if it has exploded recently.

For the sake of your baby, though, don't choose some fucked up spelling. There's a reporter on ABC News who has the name Jennephr (or something like that). Her parents must had done a lot of weed...

Michael still goes on strong, though. It was #2 in 2002.

I'm not sure how we'd spell it. Actually, I don't think I like the capital K in the middle of the name - it looks too much like a last name - so it'll probably be either Mackenzie or Mckenzie. probably without the "a," so I don't have to worry about her having a Mackenzie Phillips-type life.

With Caitlin, we went with the traditional spelling, but I saw all kinds of variations that we stayed away from - especially the ones with "y."

[Fonzie]

We had a baby last June, and his name is Ian Nathaniel. We liked both names a great deal, based solely on how they sounded. In fact, we were somewhat torn about which to use as the first name, but decided to make Nathaniel the middle name because "Ian Nathaniel get over here!" rolls off the tongue so much better than "Nathaniel Ian get over here!" ;)

[AZSpeechCoach]

I've always been partial to Kharizmah, Kredenzah, and Khlamidyah myself. Since my wife and I both have names that start with a K, I thought we had to have a "K" name. Of course, every time I suggest one of these, my wife throws things at me.

[Draft Dodger]

I think we did well with "Graham". Not too trendy, not too obscure.

[stevew]

I have a Lauren and a Leah.

My wife teaches school in the city....I'd have to say my favorite one of her kids name to date is

Shartabus

Pronounced Shawn-te-abuse

Phonics.....thats all Im asking

[Draft Dodger]

Originally posted by stevew
I have a Lauren and a Leah.


if we were to have a girl today, Lauren would probably be our choice. it would be a definite, except we work with a Lauren who is just a revolting, obnoxious woman. we rejected the name outright for the first kid (who ended up being a boy), but I think we'll get over it for kid #2. It's a nice name - not too obscure, not too trendy.

[LloydLungs]

Actually, I don't think I like the capital K in the middle of the name - it looks too much like a last name - so it'll probably be either Mackenzie or Mckenzie. probably without the "a," so I don't have to worry about her having a Mackenzie Phillips-type life.

I'm not trying to tell you how to do your job, but if it's Mckenzie than she's going to spend her entire life correcting people who will inevitably capitalize the K. If you just go ahead and slip the a in there, she will save approximately 2 1/2 years of her life in cumulative time that she would have spent correcting people about the capital K. Plus, she might end up in a cheesy sitcom with Bonnie Franklin. Everybody wins.

[Sporkimata]

My wife and I are going to name our daughter Leora. Its a nice I like a lot.
If its a boy...gonna be Theodore Jr. :-)

[Craptacular]

My wife and I really like Ethan, but already have a friend named Ethan with the same last name as us. Ian is another one that we've been considering.

[Sporkimata]

Its a nice I like a lot??? wow..i be gud spiller/

sigh

[Ramzavail]

How about Tang? Tang is a good child's name.

[bigdawg2003]

if I ever had a daughter (i'm only 19 so it's not in my immediate future) I find myself partial to names that end in N (Kristen, Allison, Lauren, etc.) Don't know why that is.

[Sun Tzu]

If you have a boy I'd say name it Brock.

However...

If you have a boy and it's extremely ugly and bears the sign of the beast on it's forehead, name it Dean.

[Mustang]

If I was a girl, my parents said my name was going to be Candy.

I don't know what the hell they were thinking.

[LloydLungs]

Although I don't want kids, if I had a boy I'd name him Gus, and if I had a girl, Myrtle. Time to go old school. Yeah. This is why it's best I don't reproduce.

[bigdawg2003]

Lloyd

If you wanna go old school, you gotta go with Gertrude or Ethel

[Sun Tzu]

My Grandmothers name is Gertrude.

My father wanted to name me "Brooks Robinson" but my mother wouldn't allow it. I wound up with Brooks as my middle name.

[LloydLungs]

The great thing about naming your daughter Ethel is that you never have to worry about boys going after her. I can't understand why more parents don't consider this.

[Huckleberry]

I have a daughter Seri and another daughter Maya who is due next month.

[Pumpy Tudors]

I'm not planning to have kids, but if I do have one, the name will be Orson.

I don't know what I'll name the kid if it's a boy...

[TLK]

Boy or girl.... my first child will be named Page/Paige

[Groundhog]

With girls I'd either go with Skye or Celeste.

Boys, I'm not sure. I'd definately stay away from the common Michael, Robert, etc. Not that I have any problems with that, but as a guy who has a not-so-terribly-common first name myself, I much prefer it that way. When you're out in public and someone says your name, you know that 99.999% of the time they are talking to you.

However, no immediate plans for children at this point...

[MrBug708]

For a boy, I'd name him Jonah, for a girl Brooklyn

[Fonzie]

For girls I've always been partial to Emily, Anna, and Madeline.

[McSweeny]

hmmm for a boy i'd probably go with something along the lines of: joe, charles, shane

and for a girl maybe something like: aisling... a nice irish name

though i'm sure i'll be tempted to name my son joe strummer mcsweeny or just strummer mcsweeny

[Hurst2112]

Shithead

or Oscar

[Glengoyne]

Originally posted by sabotai
... The most popular boy name for new-born babies in 2002 was Jacob. 5th was Ethan. The 2nd most popular baby name in 2002 for a girl was Madison. 3rd was Hannah. 7th was Abigail.

It just seems strange that these are the new popular names. Ethan? Madison? Did something cause these names to be popular in 2002? ...

My brother-in-law and sister-in-law have three sons. The first two were named Ethan and Jacob respectively. They were a year or two ahead of the trend in both cases, but now that the boys are in school they are starting to run into lots of Ethans and Jakes. They decided to avoid any chance of that by naming their third "Hudson". The woman taking information for the birth certificate loved it, and said that she was going to smack the next parents who named their son "Aidan". Apparently that month alone they had had twenty two boys named "Aidan" in that hospital.

We named our daughter Kerry. We have a Scottish/Irish background, and thought it fit pretty well. She shares the name of a county in Ireland. My wife is pregnant again, a May baby as well Ksyrup. He is a boy, and I am pushing for "Duncan".

[CamEdwards]

when I was in college I dated an Ethel.

[cuervo72]

Originally posted by bigdawg2003
if I ever had a daughter (i'm only 19 so it's not in my immediate future) I find myself partial to names that end in N (Kristen, Allison, Lauren, etc.) Don't know why that is.

I was partial to a Kristen and a Lauren in high school :)

As for popular names......my daughter's name is Emma, a name that my wife had on her list for years (dating back to Kate & Allie, at least :) ). Well, my daughter is born and we use the name. The very next day Rachel has her baby on Friends, and of course they have to name her Emma. :mad: :mad:

[Ksyrup]

Originally posted by bigdawg2003
if I ever had a daughter (i'm only 19 so it's not in my immediate future) I find myself partial to names that end in N (Kristen, Allison, Lauren, etc.) Don't know why that is.

We started with Allison, and came up with Mackenzie (however we're going to spell it) as the middle name. Then we started liking Mackenzie better. At this point, I think we're going with Mackenzie Elizabeth. But that's subject to change.

[cuervo72]

Originally posted by LloydLungs
Although I don't want kids, if I had a boy I'd name him Gus, and if I had a girl, Myrtle. Time to go old school. Yeah. This is why it's best I don't reproduce.

The neighborhood in which I grew up had the following street names, in order:

Henry
Myrtle
Hershel
Bertha
Lillian
Herman
Milton
Albert

[Butter_of_69]

My first-born we named Ethan, that was in early 2000, slightly ahead of the trend. But it's still kind of annoying to hear all the kids named Ethan right now. About 50% of the time we go somewhere where there is a group of kids, one of them aside from ours is named Ethan.

We named our 2nd kid Alexander. Maybe Alexander can be the new "Ethan". :rolleyes:

As for the eventual 3rd one, we don't have a boy's name picked out, but if it were to be a girl, I like Veronica and my wife likes Isabelle. I can see more than one fight over the horizon.

[mauchow]

You know, if can't think of a way to spell Mckenzie, you can go with Kenzie. I dated a girl named Kenzie, and she was pretty fine. :)

[hoopsguy]

I'm thinking about naming my boy Seven.

[corbes]

For girls' names, I like Rosemary and Piper.

For a boy, I'd let him pick his own name, and call him Ta-a-a until he chose something different.

[Easy Mac]

My sister named her little girl Madison... nevermind that the girl is half mexican, she was born Monday, and she even looks like a mini-Mexican.

My nephew's name is Colby... worst name ever.

I call them MadDog and Lil' C

[corbes]

Originally posted by Easy Mac


My nephew's name is Colby... worst name ever.



Probably better than naming your kid Bowdoin, or Tufts, or Wesleyan.

[Easy Mac]

no, no its not.

I call him Colbert sometimes just to piss off my sister... also call him Bill (middle name is William).

[cincyreds]

Nos Mo King??

I cannot believe that one wasn't in the top 10.

[corbes]

hahaha, colbert.

[clintl]

Originally posted by Ksyrup

Our next one is also going to be a girl, and right now we're heavily favoring McKenzie. Which is one of those Madison-type names. I guess we're going to be guilty once again of picking a fashionable name.

That's my niece's name.

[Butter_of_69]

Originally posted by Easy Mac
My sister named her little girl Madison... nevermind that the girl is half mexican, she was born Monday, and she even looks like a mini-Mexican.

What did you want them to name her? The Li'l Burrito? La Gringa? Puta Madre?

[corbes]

dola-

and if you named your kid Bowdoin, at least you could call him Bo, which would be easy because that's what everyone in the Carolinas calls each other anyway.

[Fonzie]

Originally posted by cuervo72
The neighborhood in which I grew up had the following street names, in order:

Henry
Myrtle
Hershel
Bertha
Lillian
Herman
Milton
Albert

No Floyd? Or Norma?

Disappointing. :p

[FrogMan]

We named our first son Andrew and with a second boy due very, very soon, in fact should have been born two days ago according to his theoretical due date :), we are pretty much settling on Matthew.

While these two names may be very, very common to you folks south of the border, remember that we live in a French speaking community, full of Stéphane, André, François, Mathieu, so the situation is quite different for us. André is the French version for Andrew, but we liked (and still like) Andrew much better, same thing for Mathieu/Matthew...

FM

[Ksyrup]

Originally posted by clintl
That's my niece's name.

How is it spelled?

[Ksyrup]

If I lived anywhere near a French-speaking community, I'd have to name my kid Stephane Matteau, just so I could call my kid Step On My Toe.

[JasonC23]

My now-8-month-old son is Jonathan William Crase. Named inspired by both of my grandfathers (John and Willis) and my dad's initials (also JWC).

I hate picking trendy names, so all of our boy/girl name finalists were good ol' traditional ones.

[Glengoyne]

Originally posted by cuervo72
The neighborhood in which I grew up had the following street names, in order:

Henry
Myrtle
Hershel
Bertha
Lillian
Herman
Milton
Albert

My sister works at a school in Orange County. Apparently they are having trouble coming up with unused street names due to the development boom. One of her students lives quite near the corner of "Okiedokie" and "Hunkeedoree". I may not have spelled them correctly, but those really are street names.

[cuervo72]

I didn't think you could run out of street names, but I guess Orange County has a lot of streets. I figured all you had to do was throw a bunch of words like these together and there you go:

Rocky
Willow
Eagle
Creek
View
Ridge
Holly
Spruce
Gorge
Mountain
Stream
Springs
Whispering
Rainbow
Meadow
Court
Glen
Trail
Way
Lane

[OldGiants]

Originally posted by Sun Tzu
My Grandmothers name is Gertrude.

My father wanted to name me "Brooks Robinson" but my mother wouldn't allow it. I wound up with Brooks as my middle name.

Sun Brooks Tzu?

[rkmsuf]

Soda?

[rkmsuf]

Originally posted by Ksyrup
We're looking at names right now for our expected May baby. It's funny, when we chose Caitlin in 1999 for our first one, we had no clue that we were choosing a name that had become "trendy." Only after I saw that Heather Locklear's character on that TV show was named Caitlin and we noticed an abnormal number of Caitlin's at my daughter's pre-school, did we realize we had unintentionally chosen a trendy name.

But yeah, to answer your question, boy's names, especially, are quickly changing. From the Robert's and John's to the Ethan's, Tyler's, Brandon's, Austin's, etc.

Our next one is also going to be a girl, and right now we're heavily favoring McKenzie. Which is one of those Madison-type names. I guess we're going to be guilty once again of picking a fashionable name.

Dola

Caitlin Ksyrup...hmm, it's got a certain ring to it...

[Senator]

I was a Brandon way before 90210. Matter of fact, I haven't met a Brandon older than myself.

[FargoFreez aka fof playa]

Senator

Registered: Oct 2000

:rolleyes:

[Ksyrup]

Originally posted by rkmsuf
Dola

Caitlin Ksyrup...hmm, it's got a certain ring to it...

If we were going to have a boy, I was going to insist on Kieran, which is, I suppose, another of the trendy names. I've always liked that name, though. Kieran Karo sounds sharp, IMO.

Oh well, I'm DOOMED to having 2 girls, anyway. At least Caitlin is large enough to be the linebacker son I never had. She's only 4.5 years old, but is 4 foot and weighs in at 64 lbs.

[pskov]

If you want ot go 'old school' you should check out some of the names we get over here:

Boys Girls
1 Jack 1 Emily
2 Joshua 2 Ellie
3 Thomas 3 Chloe
4 James 4 Jessica
5 Daniel 5 Sophie
6 Oliver 6 Megan
7 Benjamin 7 Lucy
8 Samuel 8 Olivia
9 William 9 Charlotte
10 Joseph 10 Hannah

[sabotai]

Aiden has become a very popular name too. Where the hell did it come from?

[Senator]

Senator

Registered: Oct 2000




__________________



This has become a bad thing around here hasn't it?

[rkmsuf]

How about Jeeves or Crowell?

[Senator]

Aiden has become a very popular name too. Where the hell did it come from?


Aiden was the kid from "The Ring". Maybe people want a strange child who calls his mother by her first name.

[Huckleberry]

Senator -

Not, but acting high and mighty for 3 years that Chris Simms was the reason for all of Texas' offensive problems sure has become a bad thing. :D

[HornedFrog Purple]

Ty or Tye

For some reason it's easy to remember when you have a concussion. :D

[rkmsuf]

Originally posted by HornedFrog Purple
Ty or Tye

For some reason it's easy to remember when you have a concussion. :D

Want to tie me up in some of your ties, Ty?

[FargoFreez aka fof playa]

Originally posted by Senator
This has become a bad thing around here hasn't it?

It's annoyed me rather minorly the last few years. Not as much as when I'd return to the board, forget my password, say fuck it and just take a new name, and finally get called Tobias or wignasty numerous times by mckerney though. Damn fool.

[Senator]

Good point if it was accurate. I just thought a better QB was his backup is all I ever tried to convey.

The problems obviously go way beyond one third team QB from Tampa Bay.

[HornedFrog Purple]

Originally posted by rkmsuf
Want to tie me up in some of your ties, Ty?

Heh it's an old gridiron story when I was in college. We were playing Air Force and I got nailed on the noggin. When the medical staff asked me where was I and what was my name. I couldn't remember and I happened to see the scoreboard and we were.... you guess it tied.

True story in all its improbability.

[Ksyrup]

Originally posted by HornedFrog Purple
Heh it's an old gridiron story when I was in college. We were playing Air Force and I got nailed on the noggin. When the medical staff asked me where was I and what was my name. I couldn't remember and I happened to see the scoreboard and we were.... you guess it tied.

True story in all its improbability.

I thought the answer was, "I'm Batman!"

[meter3]

have a 2 year old daughter named Clare Ellen with another one in the oven due in June. If it is a boy we will name him Joseph Charles, Girl will be Margaret Mary. Good Irish Catholic names .

I personally am lobbying for Alan Louis after my heros and greatest double play combo in the history of the game but she is on to me and will have nothing to do with it...oh well.

[MrBug708]

Originally posted by sabotai
Aiden has become a very popular name too. Where the hell did it come from?

Very Irish

[MrBug708]

Originally posted by meter3
have a 2 year old daughter named Clare Ellen with another one in the oven due in June. If it is a boy we will name him Joseph Charles, Girl will be Margaret Mary. Good Irish Catholic names .


Dear Lord, Margaret?

[meter3]

Mr Bug , It is after My Great Grandma Margaret Ann O'Brien who lived to be 98 and of her 26 grand children and 30 something great grandchildren, none have been named after her. I figured it was about time...so give us a break huh :D

[Easy Mac]

Originally posted by Butter_of_69
What did you want them to name her? The Li'l Burrito? La Gringa? Puta Madre?

Actually, I just found out this afternoon that my bro-in-law is calling her his little burrito.

[Baron von Doom]

Well, we had two boys: Allen Pierce Anakin and Luke Walker Rawlins.


Just my 2 cents...er...2 boys.


-BvD

[AZSpeechCoach]

My wife's mother wanted to name her Chastity Hope. She is eternally grateful that her father looked at the Kleenix box, saw the company name "Kimberley-Clark," and suggested Kimberly Hope. I probably wouldn't have gone out with a "Chastity." :)