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The Top 20 Most Popular Baby Names (Warning: Stupidity alert!)
Netscape News ^ | 1/9/04 | anon.

Posted on 01/09/2004 7:07:16 PM PST by VeritatisSplendor

The Top 20 Most Popular Baby Names

For the first time in more than a decade, the year's most popular baby name for boys is not Biblical. Move over Michael and Matthew and make room for Aidan, Jaden, and Caden--the top three boys' names for 2003, according to BabyNames.com.

Meanwhile, Madison has hung on for another year as the top name for girls, which as near as anyone can figure comes from the 1984 movie "Splash," starring Daryl Hannah in the role of a mermaid named Madison.

Top 20 boys' names:

Aidan/Aiden/Aden

Jaden/Jayden

Caden/Kaden

Ethan

Caleb

Dylan

Jacob

Jordan

Logan

Hayden

Connor

Ryan

Morgan

Cameron

Andrew

Joshua

Noah

Matthew

Addison

Ashton

Top 20 girls' names:

Madison

Emma

Abigail

Riley

Chloe

Hannah

Alexis

Isabella

Mackenzie

Taylor

Olivia

Hailey

Paige

Emily

Grace

Ava

Aaliyah

Alyssa

Faith

Brianna

BabyNames.com compiles this annual ranking of the top 20 most popular baby names using the favorite name lists created on the Web site by more than 100,000 expectant parents.

The shift in the choice of boys' names is really quite notable. "Traditionally, you see more of a fluctuation and creativity in girls' names, but this is the first year we have seen such a big change in the boys' name list," admitted Jennifer Moss, a senior partner with BabyNames.com.

"In the past 20 years, Celtic and English names--such as Ashley, Caitlyn, and Brianna--have been extremely popular for girls," adds Moss. "And now that trend is entering the boys' list with Aidan, Dylan, Logan, and Connor--a huge break from the usual trend of Biblical names like Michael and Jacob. We think as names become uni-gender for girls, parents are taking more risks and being more creative and unique with naming their boys."


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: baby; names; topten
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To: Carpe Cerevisi
Aidan is a wonderful old Irish name.

I thought the popularity of the actor Aidan Quinn may have contributed to its revival.
61 posted on 01/09/2004 7:42:52 PM PST by Palladin (Proud to be a FReeper!)
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To: VeritatisSplendor
George Foreman has the right idea; he named his sons "George", "George", "George", and "George".
62 posted on 01/09/2004 7:43:22 PM PST by Born Conservative ("Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names" - John F. Kennedy)
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To: PAR35
No, he is African American.
63 posted on 01/09/2004 7:43:27 PM PST by jonsie
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To: yarddog
You'd be pleased to know we named our two sons Jason and Robert, good 'old standby' names. *S*
64 posted on 01/09/2004 7:44:08 PM PST by Severa (Wife of Freeper Hostel, USN STS3(SS) currently on 6 month deployment)
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To: VeritatisSplendor
Most popular name in Texas last year: Jose.
65 posted on 01/09/2004 7:44:12 PM PST by 07055
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To: 07055
I never had any boys but wanted to name them Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. If I had a fifth I swear I woulda named him Deuteronomy.
66 posted on 01/09/2004 7:46:10 PM PST by cajungirl (.)
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To: Severa
I don't know if it is just the area I live in but it seems every other girl younger than 5 is named Britney.
67 posted on 01/09/2004 7:46:49 PM PST by yarddog
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To: VeritatisSplendor

Aidan, Jaden & Caden
68 posted on 01/09/2004 7:46:55 PM PST by Huber (Go Vernon Go!)
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To: stands2reason
except I don't see Braeden/Brayden on this list.

Hooray! Have we also gotten rid of Kaitlin? For awhile it seemed like there were Kaitlin's everywhere I looked.

69 posted on 01/09/2004 7:47:27 PM PST by Dianna
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To: VeritatisSplendor
And where are Roscoe, Florence, Millhous, Edna, Truman, Elmo, Phillipa, Ebenezer, Prudence, Hezbollah?!
70 posted on 01/09/2004 7:47:52 PM PST by Revolting cat! ("In the end, nothing explains anything!")
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To: waterstraat
"Meanwhile, Madison has hung on for another year as the top name for girls, which as near as anyone can figure comes from the 1984 movie "Splash," starring Daryl Hannah in the role of a mermaid named Madison."

My wife liked Madison two years ago and we named our third (and I made sure it would be our LAST) daughter that. If it had anything to do with "Splash" then my wife probably wouldn't have proposed it. She just liked the ring to it. I wasn't about to drop her original Christian name we decided on previously so as a compromise we made her first name madison and she has 2 middle names (her original Christian names).

My ultra-liberal female boss at the time flat out said that we should dump the Biblical names and go with the popular ones. I really po'd her when I wondered aloud to her one day if the 'secular' names would prevent discrimination...oh the rants she gave for months afterwards were truly amazing. I must have hit the nail on the head.
71 posted on 01/09/2004 7:48:04 PM PST by AppauledAtAppeasementConservat (An educated fool, in the end, is still a fool.)
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To: 07055
Most popular name in Southern California: Jesus!
72 posted on 01/09/2004 7:48:57 PM PST by Revolting cat! ("In the end, nothing explains anything!")
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To: cajungirl
I never had any boys but wanted to name them Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

I thought that was "Matthew, Mark, Luke and Job"?

73 posted on 01/09/2004 7:49:52 PM PST by 07055
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To: VeritatisSplendor
I can't say that I like the boys names, whatever they are.
74 posted on 01/09/2004 7:50:11 PM PST by ladyinred (W/04)
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To: will1776
What do you suppose will happen when he passes?
75 posted on 01/09/2004 7:51:23 PM PST by nj_pilot
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To: TomServo; Hillary's Lovely Legs
ROTFL! Tom, thank you for the link and thank you, Hillary'sLovelyLegs for posting this last year - very, very funny!
76 posted on 01/09/2004 7:51:53 PM PST by bd476 (New Year's Resolution: Decrease FR online time to 1 hour a day... 23 more to go!)
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To: nj_pilot
So the baloney about Hillary being the most popular woman in the universe appears to be in error.

Didn't Sir Edmund Hillary name himself after her, when he was finished climbing Mt. Everest?

77 posted on 01/09/2004 7:52:54 PM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree
ROTFLMAO!!!
78 posted on 01/09/2004 7:53:56 PM PST by RightWingMama
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To: ElkGroveDan
"Let's see a sampling of birth certificates. "

The SSA site is built on applications for social security cards, so if anything, it is biased towards those who pay taxes.

(sorry, I don't know how to quote you in italics)
79 posted on 01/09/2004 7:55:26 PM PST by nj_pilot
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree
Didn't Sir Edmund Hillary name himself after her, when he was finished climbing Mt. Everest?

Quite possibly, but a small correction is called for - he wasn't a "Sir" yet at the time!

80 posted on 01/09/2004 7:56:14 PM PST by Revolting cat! ("In the end, nothing explains anything!")
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