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December 2011 Moms
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2011 Baby names are out
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https://www.socialsecurity.gov/OACT/babynames/#t0=2
The SSA announced the top names of 2011, is your baby's name on it? Do you care about popularity?
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Re: 2011 Baby names are out
Our LOs name is Anderson. It started gaining popularity around 2006 and usually is between 250-350 on the list. Prior to 2006, it was pretty uncommon as a first name.
We did care about popularity some. We didn't want something really common, but didn't want a u-neek name that people wouldn't be able to pronounce or spell either. I think we have the best of both worlds. I love LOs name!
Adriana is 132. I don't necessarily care about popularity (I was really pulling for Abigail, but DH said no), but I am glad that her name is out of the top 100
ETA: and ditto lab - I wanted a name that people know and can pronounce but without her being one of 10 in her class
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With DD1 we didn't want a name in the top 100, when we chose Teagan for her it was 2009 and the name was ranked 321 in 2008, since it has jumped to 213 which isn't bad. We've met about 5 other Teagans in our travels.
DD2 was harder but we settled on Adair which hasn't been ranked in the past 13 years. We love it but think it's an acquired taste as most of our family has taken to calling her Addie.
DH has a classic name that's been in the top 50 forever and I had another Amber in my class all through school and so had to go by my last innitial, we were hoping to avoid that for our girls without naming them something nuts-o like Blue Ivy.
Harry is 709 and Desmond (MN) is 358. It's funny b/c Harry is #3 in the UK!
I agree with PP, I really wanted a name that was uncommon but easy to pronounce and spell and at least familiar to people. I think we found that with Harry
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Harrison is more popular (197) so it's possible that he'll have classmates with the NN Harry, but that's okay with me.
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Hmmm...Angelina moved out of the top 100 for the first time in 10 yrs.
It was #27 though in my state for 2010 (NJ). I wonder about 2011.
I was surprised to see that in the last 150 years, DD's name only made the top 1000 13 times! It wasn't on the charts at all from 1922-1981 and was only on the charts twice in the last 30 years (1982 & 83). Apparently her name peaked in 1917 at #785.
We wanted something different but not crazy. I've never met anyone who has the same name as DD.
Same with Teagan, a nurse heard it and used it. I don't blame her it's a great name.
DS is Michael...I don't think you get more popular than that lol. I personally wanted a more unique name at first, but DH wanted a son named after him. I didn't put up a battle because I knew how much it meant to him.
I was concerned with popularity, but DH was not. More than popularity though, I didn't want a name that was "trendy". Eleanor is 150 this year. Judging by the reactions we get to her name it will never spike to the top for sure.
It's classic, easy to pronounce, most people spell it correctly, and there are some great nickname options for later.
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We tried to pick a traditional name, and we never knew anyone named Ethan growing up, so we thought we were safe. Then we researched the popularity and saw it was in the top 10 the last few years. I liked the name enough to not care that it was super popular.
One thing I noticed while doing the popularity research is that, at least in my state, the number of kids with the most popular names has decreased. For MD specifically, the top ten names 20 or 30 years ago all had 1000+ kids with that name. I was looking at the last few years, and the top ten names all had less than 500 instances (I think). So I'm hoping this means that although E is has a popular name, he won't have to worry about being Ethan B in class.
ETA: just looked up the MD numbers, in 2010 the top name in MD had only 385 kids with that name, in 1983 1,268 kids had the top boy name (Michael) and the top 10 in 1983 all had 500+ instances. #17 in 1983 had 381 (closet number of instances to the #1 name from 2010). Hope this makes sense!
This. LOs name is 255 on the list. It's moving up in popularity so I just emailed DH and told him that if it breaks the top 100 in the next 10 years I'll be pissed. I wanted people to think, "Oh, what a nice name, you don't hear that very often."
I love your DD's name, lol.
We knew exactly how popular Emma was when we picked out the name. I have loved this name ever since I saw the move, "Emma"...After we agreed on the name we saw the movie on tv and DH was like why would want to name her Emma after this character she is a b*tch...I told him to just keep watching, but I understood his point....
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Brady is #135 and was most popular in 2007 at #93. We didn't really care about the popularity though, we just found a name we both really liked and that's how we chose it.
If we have a girl next we love the name Charlotte and that is becoming really popular but we don't care. Again, it's a name we both really like.Other than 2011 it's most popular year was 1943, that's kind of cool!
LO's name is in the 20's so that's good.
I was bored and put my name in and was surprised that 'Heather' is in the 700's! It was one of the most popular names when I was born. Just ask the 100 other Heather's I went to school with
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Lewis is # 633, I purposly wanted an unusual name, as my sister and DHs names are really popular and they had 4 other people with the same name in their class growing up, and I would of hated that, my name is really unusual and I wanted that for my children aswell ( My name doesn't even appear on the list). His MN isn't on the list and neither is my girls name, which I am very happy about, now if I have another boy, then I am stuck as it took 7 months to find an unusual name we both liked.
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Atticus is #462. I wanted an intelligent-sounding name that was uncommon but not unheard of.
I am not into trendy names usually because of students I have had.
Every now and then I get "Tay-gan" but other than those fools it's pretty easy.