This press release is interesting, but it isn't a list of actual baby names, just "popular" names voted on by visitors to the website. To see the
real list of baby names, go right to the
source, the U.S. government. This site is a lot of fun to poke around. Despite what you read from the Babynames.com website, you will see that civilization is not coming to an end.
Tracking the ranking of the name Madison, for instance, on the Social Security website:
1985: 625
1990: 203
1995: 29
2000: 3
2005: 3
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.