Naming the Baby

From Yahoo.

"There were big moves in both the boys' and girls' lists this year, with a new number one for the girls and three new additions to the boys' list," said Linda Murray, editor-in-chief, BabyCenter. "Parents are continuing to reinvent names through creative spelling and new twists."


BabyCenter® Top 10 Baby Names for Girls in 2007 (2006)

1. Sophia (Emma)
2. Isabella (Madison)
3. Emma (Ava)
4. Madison (Emily)
5. Ava (Isabella)
6. Addison (Kaitlyn)
7. Hailey (Sophia)
8. Emily (Olivia)
9. Kaitlyn (Abigail)
10. Olivia (Hailey)


Addison (#6) is the sole new addition to the Top 10 list in 2007, replacing Abigail (#11). Kaelyn (#42), Reagan (#80), Maria (#82), Sadie (#84) and Callie (#90) were among the newcomers to the Top 100, while Angelina, Amanda, and Nicole fell off the list. The fastest rising stars include Layla (#40), up a stunning 60 spots, Bailey (#60), up 39 spots and Addison (#6), up 20 spots. Both Addison and Bailey represent character names on popular television drama Grey's Anatomy, possibly signaling an influence in the names' popularity surge.


BabyCenter® Top 10 Baby Names for Boys in 2007 (2006)

1. Aiden (Aiden)
2. Ethan (Jacob)
3. Jacob (Ethan)
4. Jayden (Ryan)
5. Caden (Matthew)
6. Noah (Jack)
7. Jackson (Noah)
8. Jack (Nicholas)
9. Logan (Joshua)
10. Matthew (Logan)


Jayden (#4), the list's record-holder for most spellings (26), is new to the Top 10 list along with Caden (#5) and Jackson (#7), also three of the top risers in the Top 100 list. New arrivals to the Top 100 list include Adrian (#90), Colton (#91), Nolan (#95) and Cody (#96), while Ben, Kevin and Drew fell off the Top 100.

Not one of these kids is going to be able to get a miniature license plate for their bike, that has their name on it.

'tis funny (and kinda sad) how tv soaps play such a big part in names chosen.

My near 3yr old is a male Addison, and it was quite unusual when he was born....then came along Addison Shephard from Grey's Anatomy (female) and BAM, its in the top 10.

xoxoxoBruce;420471 wrote:

From Yahoo.
Not one of these kids is going to be able to get a miniature license plate for their bike, that has their name on it.

I have an unusual first name, and I have found 4 different miniplates.
3 from New Jersey and 1 from Virginia Beach.

However, I only have found one for "The Wife", and even then, it's spelled different.

Crimson Ghost;420548 wrote:

I have an unusual first name, and I have found 4 different miniplates.
3 from New Jersey and 1 from Virginia Beach.

However, I only have found one for "The Wife", and even then, it's spelled different.

They will find miniplates

my kids won't :D

Now I'm In US I can find plates with my name, but In UK it just wasn't popular enough. I'm still unusual here though -people seem to expec tme to be african American ;)

Aiden, Jayden AND Caden?

This culture needs an enema.

In a movie called Jindabyne there was a female character named Caylin-Calandria. That's a mouthful.

I'm glad that I have an unusual (to Americans) but very classical name. No justification necessary.

I think its amazing how the boy name Jayden have 26 different spellings.

Pie, I like my Indian co-workers' names, Rajeev and Sudatta. Rajeev seems like it would be one of those classical names, from the root "raj" which means "rule", or all the way from the Latin "roi", meaning "king".

I'm thinking that the English/American name "Roy" comes from the same place.

Roy to the world, the Lord is come! Let earth receive her King...

I came across a woman called Felony in the local news the other day. For Real.

Nnett - you have posted twice, both with links to the sme site and neither time did I find what you were referring to.

My oldest sons name is Aden. He was named for my nanna who died shortly before he was born. Her name was Edna.

At the time I wondered how much strife there'd be because we left out the i, but it seems that leaving out the i has become pretty popular. I've even seen it spelled Ayden which I think is a bit weird.

My other son is named Maverick. It always gets spelled properly although I still can't get any of those production signs or cups with names on them.

Nnett;420664 wrote:

I think its amazing how the boy name Jayden have 26 different spellings.

One of my granddaughters is "Jayden."

monster;420688 wrote:

I came across a woman called Felony in the local news the other day. For Real.

Probably in a feel good story though, brightened Christmas for Rwandan orphans, that sort of thing.

Griff;421383 wrote:

Probably in a feel good story though, brightened Christmas for Rwandan orphans, that sort of thing.

The obits actually. She was not the deceased, but the bereaved mother of a toddler. If it'd've have been a funny situ you can bet your arse i'd've posted a link here. :( Still, the name was impossible to ignore

bummer

yup.

especially as I was looking for the obit of the third parent at our school to lose the cancer battle this school year. Not a big school -400 families tops.

Jeez, i know how to bring a thread down, don't I?

...but that's what makes me pretty damn sure the name was f'real....

Well, maybe you could post on the illegal immigration thread. ;)

hehe it never works. I'm a cancer -only the threads who don't deserve to die succumb to my death grip....

Back to baby names ...
I have seen some notable names working in various administrivial jobs:
Dick Pilot (surely you would go as Rick or Ricky or something)
Pattipong Dikshit (a perfectly respectable name in Thailand)
And if your family name was Stretch, would you name your son Mark???

Went to school with a Kristin Stitz. srsly and she had pencils with her name carved into them - lol.

Okay, I've said that one aloud and thought about it for awhile, but I can't figure it out... what's wrong with Kristin Stitz? Besides the fact that it's just hard to say.

Clodfobble;421538 wrote:

what's wrong with Kristin Stitz?

Nothing's wrong with them, she's got a helluva rack!

lol...I didn't figure it out either!

Not much you can do to fix "Stitz", though.

she had/has sisters too.