Top 100 Baby Names for 2007 Announced
Names that are new to the list this year are Brady and Cooper for boys and Sophie for girls. Making a comeback on the girl's list this year include Gracie, Molly and Bailey (which dropped off the list in 2004). Out this year are Alejandro and Devin on the boy's side and Rebecca, Jayla, Natalia and Jenna on the girl's side. Interestingly, the name Jenna was on the rise until 2000 when a certain President with a daughter named Jenna was elected. The popularity of that name has declined since. Hmmm... I wonder if the recent popularity of Barack Obama will make his children's names rise in popularity as well. Currently Natasha is #387 (though she goes by Sasha which is #350) and Malia is #403. We shall see...
This is also the first year I've ever seen the Social Security administration get involved in trend spotting. Usually, they just release the stats and leave the analysis up to us nerdy types who like to sit and go over and over the list with our fine-toothed combs. This year, however, brought commentary about celebrity influence and a trend they noticed about parents naming their boys things that rhyme with the word maiden. They've managed to find 34 examples of this in the top 1,000 names. This brings me to a trend I've been noticing for some years: girl names that contain some form of lynn in them. Why lynn? I scanned the list and found a whopping 70 examples in the top 1,000. Anyone care to guess why this trend exists?
Here's the full list of the 100 most popular baby names with meanings and polls so that you can weigh in on the names you love, hate or just say "Meh" about.
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Your list of Lynn names makes me wonder if the name Caitlin and all its variations would put the name closer to the top of the list. This could be related to the popularity of Irish names that we also see here in Canada.
It’s funny for me to hear that so many little girls are named Addison. Addison means “son of Adam” (I to think Grey’s Anatomy has something to do with it becoming a girls name lately). I have a son named Addison who was named after his great great grandfather, It doesn’t bother me too much that people use it as a girls name, it’s just doesn’t make sense to me. I like it more as a middle name fr girls.
It is funny to me that so many Americans name their girls Alexis. I am European, and to me Alexis is always a boy! It is greek name for boys !!! It was never ment to be a girls name. To me it also sounds like a boy and yet to Americans it sounds like a girlsname I guess. Odd how different people feel about the sound of a name.