That's Jacob in the middle. Born October 2005!
Posted on 05/11/2008 5:45:33 AM PDT by mware
The Most Popular U.S. Baby Names Forget Britney and Brad—Americans can’t get enough of Emily and Jacob. Once again, those top the list of the nation’s favorite baby names, according to the Social Security Administration, which tracks names based upon card applications for newborns. This Mother’s Day, PARADE has the exclusive first look at the most popular names for girls and boys in 2007. To see more names popular around the country, as well as America’s favorite baby names of the last century, click here.
Boys 1 Jacob (#1 since 1999) 2 Michael (last year: #2) 3 Ethan (#4) 4 Joshua (#3) 5 Daniel (#6) 6 Christopher (#7) 7 Anthony (#9) 8 William (#10) 9 Matthew (#5) 10 Andrew (#8)
Girls 1 Emily (#1 since 1996) 2 Isabella (last year: #4) 3 Emma (#2) 4 Ava (#5) 5 Madison (#3) 6 Sophia (#9) 7 Olivia (#7) 8 Abigail (#6) 9 Hannah (#8) 10 Elizabeth (#11)
I have a daughter by that name.
When we named her, we didn’t know anyone named Sarah. Then, when we took her to school, it seemed half the girls were named Sarah.
That's Jacob in the middle. Born October 2005!
I heard a lot of Javier’s being called to on the playground yesterday.
I didn’t realize how trendy my name was when my parents hung it on me in 1962...and how uncool it is now!!!!!
We named our son Jacob (1988). At that time, we didn’t think folks were using it much and his great-grandfather had that name. Because I am his mother, I have sometimes called him Jakey. Some of the family call him “Japut” because one of his younger cousins couldn’t pronounce his name correctly and it came out something like that. Sometimes that is shortened to “Jape.” He answers to everything!
My family has Texas roots back to the 1830s, and I can tell you that a lot of the Jose’s are not anchor babies. Texas was part of Mexico until 1836 and there are many ethnically Mexican Texans that go back to the 1800s.
> I didn’t realize how trendy my name was when my parents hung it on me in 1962...and how uncool it is now!!!!!
Heh, you’re lucky. I got pegged with a name that hit its popular peak in the early 1920s (#2 in 1922). It was an old traditional family name (which is why I was given it), but it was uncool when I was *born*. The only people I meet with the name are at least 70 years old...
The one upside to having an unusual name is that people remember you better! :-)
Bogus. Madison is not the third most popular name in the country. I don’t know a single person or kid named Madison.
My twins’ names are going to be Sarah and Samuel—didn’t make the top ten, but that’s okay by me! :-)
My daughter is named after a great-aunt, Sophie, who is about 85 years old. I think that is how these names skip multiple generations. There are a lot of Grandma and Great-Grandma Sophies out there.
Excellent choice! We’re naming one of my twins Sarah! :-)
Lovely name, I think. But how on earth do you tell all those grandkids apart? By their middle names?
:-)
There was some woman on Survivor a few years ago who was pretty popular, and that was her name—I think that’s when the name started getting popular too. IIRC, it’s just pronounced
“Knee-vah”.
Emily Elizabeth, mine, is having a baby in Aug and today she told me her baby’s middle name is going to be Noani. She said before I made fun of it I should know Noani is Hawaiian for Linda...that’s my name. That was a nice Mother’s Day present.
I one had twin boys in my class
They were named ...
Lemonjello and Orangejello..
I wonder where they rank on that name list
Middle and last names.
Some one sent me an e mail the other day and you could go there and see how many people in the world had your name. My name came up ‘zero’. ~sob~ You would think there would be one...... me.
Lemonjello and Orangejello.. was their last name Kraft? (the owner of Jell-O)
My sons name is Jacob. He was born in 1991. I guess my wife and I are trend setters!
Happy Mother’s Day, mware!
Names are so trendy. Frankly, I’m glad to see various derivatives of Brittany gone. Brad, too. A generation or two ago it was Barbara, Carol, Susan, Nancy, and I don’t see any of them on the top now.
It is interesting that at least most of the male names now are biblical, and several historical. Your name may see a comeback yet!
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