Baby-name remorse

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Originally Posted by aimeecc

The number is "usage of (name) per MILLION babies." So, it would be 550 million Susans. A popular name is Ethan, and its #4, with over 5 billion babies born in 2005 with that name. Although 550 million sound like a lot, its only 10% of the number of Ethans.
My son's name has grown in popularity over the last few years, and in 2006 there were ~440 million Miles, ranked 202. Still a lot better than 5 billion.

5 Billion Ethans born in the USA in 2005? I don't think so.....
5,000,000,000?

United States
Population: 301,139,947 (July 2007 est.)
from here

Population Clocks
U.S. 303,168,757
World 6,641,883,975
15:28 GMT (EST+5) Jan 04, 2008
from here