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quiet_tiger) wrote2010-12-04 12:05 am
quiet_tiger) wrote2010-12-04 12:05 am
More Baby Names
Yahoo posted an update on the most common baby names of 2010.
...maybe it's just me--I mean, it must be--but I really, really hate the name "Aiden." "Sophia" I love, but those -ayden names, man. Nuh-uh.
But I'm posting to comment on the names they predict will be popular in the very near future:
And what about names that haven't even broken into the top 100? Who will be next year's newcomers?
Among the less popular names now moving up the girls' list are Isla, Adalyn, Giuliana, Olive, Kinsley, Evangeline, Paisley, Vivienne, Maci, and Kinley.
And although Bentley, Kellan, Kingston, Aarav, Ryker, Beckett, Colt, Paxton, Jax, and Lincoln are well below the top 100 on the boys' list, they're all fast climbers.
Honestly, in that list of 20 names I recognize 5, maybe 6, as actual names. More if you count surnames (but they're *surnames*). I could never name a kid "Ryker" and not think of Jonathan Frakes.
Though it is interesting to me that even with all the Twilight stuff, "Jacob" isn't the number one name anymore. I wonder how much "Edward" has jumped up the list? And I'd never even heard the name "Kellan" before the Twilight actor. I wonder if "Jasper" is becoming more popular? What's the line Bella has in the book, about the Cullens' names being from "another time" or "an older time"?
Names are just so interesting. Like the trend of girls names going both more old-school with "Sophia" and "Olivia" yet becoming more and more made up or a mashing of other names together.
...maybe it's just me--I mean, it must be--but I really, really hate the name "Aiden." "Sophia" I love, but those -ayden names, man. Nuh-uh.
But I'm posting to comment on the names they predict will be popular in the very near future:
And what about names that haven't even broken into the top 100? Who will be next year's newcomers?
Among the less popular names now moving up the girls' list are Isla, Adalyn, Giuliana, Olive, Kinsley, Evangeline, Paisley, Vivienne, Maci, and Kinley.
And although Bentley, Kellan, Kingston, Aarav, Ryker, Beckett, Colt, Paxton, Jax, and Lincoln are well below the top 100 on the boys' list, they're all fast climbers.
Honestly, in that list of 20 names I recognize 5, maybe 6, as actual names. More if you count surnames (but they're *surnames*). I could never name a kid "Ryker" and not think of Jonathan Frakes.
Though it is interesting to me that even with all the Twilight stuff, "Jacob" isn't the number one name anymore. I wonder how much "Edward" has jumped up the list? And I'd never even heard the name "Kellan" before the Twilight actor. I wonder if "Jasper" is becoming more popular? What's the line Bella has in the book, about the Cullens' names being from "another time" or "an older time"?
Names are just so interesting. Like the trend of girls names going both more old-school with "Sophia" and "Olivia" yet becoming more and more made up or a mashing of other names together.
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Zeneide, Geneide, Lenade, Elane, Edilane, Vani, Neide, Adriano, Andre (the last two aren't weird, but they're hard to say in Portuguese for an English speaker), not to mention all the others, hahahaha!!
:P
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It's amazing that what sounds awful to one person is beautiful to another. It's got to be tough naming a kid!
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