Posted on 12/11/2006 8:08:37 AM PST by Republican Red
BabyNames.com Announces Top Names of 2006
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- According to the popular website BabyNames.com, Ava and Aidan were the top names for 2006. For the first time in five years, Madison slipped from the number one girl's name to number four. On the boys' side, rhyming names Aiden, Caden, Braden and Jaden continue to dominate the charts.
The BabyNames.com Top Names List is calculated from the favorite name lists of over a million site members for the year 2006.
"Celebrity culture always has an influence on naming trends," says Jennifer Moss, founder and CEO of BabyNames.com, "but it seems like it has increased in recent years."
Moss says the name Ava started becoming popular after celebrity couple Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillipe chose the name for their daughter in 1999. Other celeb parents who chose the name Ava include X-Man Hugh Jackman and TV star Heather Locklear.
But if you think the Federlines were the first celeb couple to go with the name Jayden, you are mistaken. Jaden (and its various spellings) first started appearing on BabyNames.com lists after Will Smith and Jada Pinkett chose the name for their son back in 1998.
"It usually takes 3-4 years for a new name to make it from the celebrities to the masses," says Moss, "and that's only if the names are not too wild!"
So although Pilot Inspektor and Fifi Trixibelle will probably not be topping the charts anytime soon, keep an eye out for Suri [Cruise] and Shiloh [Jolie-Pitt] to appear in the forthcoming years.
THE BABYNAMES.COM MOST POPULAR NAMES for 2006
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She certainly isn't ugly!
My sister is about 20 years older than that! :D
The Sheepel love Hollywierd and think that naming thier kids what the wierdos name thier kids will make them like the wierdos
Thinking for oneself is so passe
I just think of Ava Gardner.....
Her father was governor of Texas and the family had a lot of "awl" money, so she probably didn't get teased very much. I don't think she ever married; in her place, I would have married the first Smith, Jones, or Zyzgywicz I could lay my hands on.
I respectfully disagree. ~Brendan
Was supposed to be "3 and 2, named Ethan and Elijah".
Yes. That was their given names.
Mrs. Exile and I are considering having children in the not too distant future. One name keeps popping up for both boys and girls, T-Bone.
How embarrassing...I would have been:
We can't quite remember. It was somewhere after a St. Patrick's Day party. We were probably at home. But don't worry. It's not really important.
Your sister's name is Chatty Cathy? ;)
I'm so fond of this name I passed it on to Junior,,, lol
Caden, Braden and Jaden are every bit as good as Izzy, Skizzy, and Wizzy.
My little niece's name is Raigyn Dawn, as in "THE" Reagan, but mama had to have the ending (-yn) match her son's name, Trevyn. Every time I see her name on something, I think ob-gyn.
Raigyn?
Trevyn?
Good Lord above. Medicate that woman before she inflicts something worse on another child, if that's even possible.
One of my grandmothers, of blessed memory, was named Eva. Just my luck when my husband and I have a daughter, (who we plan to name either Eva or Ava in her memory) we'll be accused of being trendy (b/c of either Eva Longoria or Reese Witherspoon's daughter).
People forget that names cycle and recycle. Chances are if Eva was a popular name 60-5 years ago, I'm not the only person w/ a grandmother or great-grandmother with the same name. If I'm not the only person with an ancestor with that name, I'm probably not the only person on earth who would like to honor that relative by naming my child after her. It could be the same thing with some of these celebrities as well. It might be a case of copying for the sake of copying after all.
Her first name was her father's doing. He had read a book that included a character named "Ima," and he just liked the name. Legend has it that when his brother heard what he was going to name the baby, he jumped on his horse and rode hell bent to Houston to try to talk his brother out of it. He got there too late.
Ima Hogg was universally loved and respected. People called her "Miss Ima." I'm sure she took some teasing about the name, but she certainly didn't let it get to her.
WATKINS: It's T-bone.
GEORGE: The thing is...I'm supposed to be T-bone.
WATKINS: Heh heh. You're not a T-bone. You're a perfect George.
GEORGE: What? Now, you listen to me!
Kruger and a few other people watch George through the window of the conference room door.
KRUGER: Hey, look at George. He's givin' it to T-bone. He's jumpin' up and down like some kind of monkey. Hey, what was the name of that monkey that could read sign language?
WATKINS: All right, you can have T-bone. Stop crying.
GEORGE (sniffling): I'm not crying. And I shouldn't have said that about your wife. Please accept my apologies.
Watkins and George enter the conference room.
GEORGE: Ok, everybody, uh...I have an announcement to make. From now on, I will be known as-
KRUGER: Koko the monkey.
GEORGE: What?
ALL (chanting): Koko! Koko! Koko! Koko! Koko! Koko! Koko! Koko! Koko! Koko!
"I thought that was a girls name?
Nope---just Irish. I grew up with a guy named Shannon, and he was the toughest mf'er in town."
My brother is named Shanon and he too is the toughest SOB around.
Anyone replacing a standard vowel/consonant combo with a "y" version should be shot immediately, before the human race is further diminished.
Names like "Krystyn" are a double-offenders. In these cases, the namer should be subjected to 48 stright hours of Celine Dion records prior to the firing squad as extra punishment.
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