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
GIRLS
Park Slide
Hottub
Windstar Minivan
LOL!
I have to say I don't know quite what my rules/parameters would be.
I just know that most of these names now are pretentious.
However, I also am not crazy about using the old, "timeless", and far-overused names. JOHN being the worst.
Lincoln!
Lincoln, Lincoln bo Bincoln
Bonana fanna fo Fincoln
Fee fy mo Mincoln, Lincoln!
;>)
Why do we do those things to our kids
I guess because our parents did it to us?
Anyone with a "La" in their name is bound to be either a stripper, a bartender, a welfare mom, or a crack whore.
OK, so I am generalizing a bit...
OTIS! My MAN!!!
More stupid spellings:
Nanci
Ashleigh
Brandi
Suzzanna
Suzzannah
Candyce
Gennifer
If people want to give unique names, why not pick legimate, existing names that aren't used very often, like Ingrid or Henrietta?
I was thinking of naming a boy Lincoln. Not because of the Pres (whom I don't much like), but because of my most beloved car....and it's certainly masculine enough.
My given name is far too boring for my tastes. I wish I were named Octavian. Or Xerxes. Or perhaps Zarathustra.
Chuck never could play the name game though.
Be careful though. Many names on the top 20 list for the past few years (for girls) are names that were popular 70-80 years ago.
So you may find that your kids' names become popular again.
Nope---just Irish. I grew up with a guy named Shannon, and he was the toughest mf'er in town.
I'm not much fond of Germanic female names - not largely, anyway. Too "masculine" and also just too awkward, maybe.
Male names, another issue. Germans are very good at masculine names. My dad is Gerhardt.
Irish names are too effeminate. Might be good for girls, but terrible for boys.
Lucky for her she wasn't conceived in the back of an Econoline van!
Well the Shannon I know is an adorable 3 year old and my daughter loves him!
This one is less surprising when you find out that it's a reasonabyl common name in either Thailand or India... I forget which off the top of my head. i.e., it's cultural, just unfortunate in an English-speaking area.
Well, I'll have to admit fwiw sounds more sophisticated than Rotflmao.
;>
I'd post mine, but my Mom reads this forum. :-P
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