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Saturday, July 19, 2008

What a difference a day makes

Most popular boy/girl baby names in 1950, according to the U.S. Social Security Administration:
1. James / Linda
2. Robert / Mary
3. John / Patricia
4. Michael / Barbara
5. David / Susan
6. William / Nancy
7. Richard / Deborah
8. Thomas / Sandra
9. Charles / Carol
10. Gary / Kathleen

Most popular boy/girl baby names in 2007, according to the U.S. Social Security Administration:

1. Jacob / Emily
2. Michael / Isabella
3. Ethan / Emma
4. Joshua / Ava
5. Daniel / Madison
6. Christopher / Sophia
7. Anthony / Olivia
8. William / Abigail
9. Matthew / Hannah
10. Andrew / Elizabeth

According to writer Jeanna Bryner, "Mary" was the top baby girl name from the 1880s into the 1950s; "John" consistently stayed among the top boy names during that same period. I'm not sure where "Sunday Rose" will fit into the list.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

What, no Brittany? Where's Brittany? Every third teenaged girl you meet is named Brittany. I guess that was LAST decade.

Anonymous said...

t least glad to see a return to more traditional names. Except for Madison.

clinch64 said...

As for unique and unusual names, I had a great-great grandmother who had the birth name of Lalla Rookh Napolean Foster. It seems there was a popular book of the time (1849) by the name of" Lalla Rookh." No one knows where the inspiration for Napolean came from. One could guess the obvious.