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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My brother's name is Shannon. But, it was because of this retarded pact that my parents made with their friends to use their last name as a first name and for them to do the same (both last names are legit first names, so it wasn't as reckless as it could have been). He has gone by his middle name since about the age of 11.
In a few years, that list will read: Juan, Jose, Jorge, Pablo
LEGS, what's the news????
What is with all the Irish/Jewish sounding names?
Where's Soda Pop and Dally?
Probably hanging out with Ponyboy and Cherry
Sigh. For a moment I thought my name had become unpopular again after not seeing it on the first list. But no, there it is again in the top 10 in that SSA list. Lousy parents, jumping on the bandwagon.
My sons are Aleksander and Oliver.
In the recent listing of babies in my areas biggest rag, one newborn baby girl was named Sydney Cecil. Not Cindy Cecilia, but Sydney Cecil. The weird newborn names given to their babies by todays young parents are a neverending source of amusement for my wife and I.
No news on the baby front, if that's what you mean...Just unabated swelling and discomfort. ;-P
How's the family?
What? A baby name list and still no mention of Frank Zappa and his daughter Moon Unit?
THIS GREATLY OFFENDS ME.
no joke, there was a baby named in our local hospital named
Nosmo King.
The mother was inspired as she was being wheeled to the delivery room. They should have slapped HER.
Mr. Cat's brother has a boy named Brayden (born in 04) and their girl due this month will be (drumroll).. Peyton. Of course, Peyton isn't half as bad as her middle name: Nevaeh (heaven spelled backwards, doncha know.)
I am so glad that none of my children are in the top 20. My son's name was in the top 5 (Nicholas) for a few years, and I was kicking myself for a long time. The girls have similar traditional European(but feminine in their case) yet not too weird names.
We have a bun in the oven. His name is Johann Basil. We're going to call him Hans.
Our family has a strict naming policy: children may be named after ancestors, saints, heroes, constellations/stars, flowers, precious stones, birds, or months/seasons of the year. In a civilized society, this policy would be enforced by law.
"Jaden" and "Kaeden", my left buttock. What the hell is wrong with people these days?
I do know a young girl named Helen. She is gorgeous. When people talk to her on the phone, they assume she's an old lady because of her name, and they're shocked when they meet her. Her license plate frame says "Helen Wheels." She loves her name.
An acquaintance named her son Michael except to be different she spelled it Michel (French she said). Needless to say he gets called Michelle ALL the time.
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