9 thoughts on “New Social Security Administration Baby Name Data Available!”
rachel
I hadn’t been paying enough attention to my kid’s name!
When he was born, it wasn’t in the 1000 most popular, but now it’s number 626! It’s been rising for since 2017! Not really popular, but there are 425 baby Ledger’s out there somewhere which delights me!
I always INTEND to do such a post, but then I comb through the information a little and feel like there’s so much and yet nothing particular stands out! The only thing I particularly noticed was that the name Avayah has made a HUGE leap—and I am sort of assuming that’s from Nevaeh, which is an interesting name evolution.
I find it interesting how whole generations will like one name or another. Growing up I knew a family with an Olivia – in the late 80s. I remember remarking to my mother how pretty that name was (and I had no idea about naming trends or really much of anything as a child). My mom thought it was kinda weird, but I was secretly a little jealous of the girl for having such a cool name. Now that’s a top name for my generation to use!
There are names I thought “I’d love to use that for a child” that weren’t even in the top 1000 at the time, to the point that I’m sometimes curious how I came across them. Now they’re high up, or even in the top ten! I even contemplated giving a girl the middle name James before that was a thing! It’s incredible how entire generations move like that.
So exciting!! I had twin boys this year, and I’m excited to see that one of their names isn’t as high as I thought in the top 100 and that the other half isn’t in the top 1000 at all. Part of me wanted them to have similar name popularities, but I think I like it better this way because it seems less planned on our part.
Just skimmed the data and the thing that jumped out at me was that two spellings of Denise are the fastest rising girl names! It seems firmly in the category of grandma/boomer names in style purgatory. Anyone know what the deal is with Denise?
I hadn’t been paying enough attention to my kid’s name!
When he was born, it wasn’t in the 1000 most popular, but now it’s number 626! It’s been rising for since 2017! Not really popular, but there are 425 baby Ledger’s out there somewhere which delights me!
Swistle, will you be doing a post on your take-sways/most interesting findings from this year’s data?? I would love to read that. :)
I always INTEND to do such a post, but then I comb through the information a little and feel like there’s so much and yet nothing particular stands out! The only thing I particularly noticed was that the name Avayah has made a HUGE leap—and I am sort of assuming that’s from Nevaeh, which is an interesting name evolution.
I find it interesting how whole generations will like one name or another. Growing up I knew a family with an Olivia – in the late 80s. I remember remarking to my mother how pretty that name was (and I had no idea about naming trends or really much of anything as a child). My mom thought it was kinda weird, but I was secretly a little jealous of the girl for having such a cool name. Now that’s a top name for my generation to use!
There are names I thought “I’d love to use that for a child” that weren’t even in the top 1000 at the time, to the point that I’m sometimes curious how I came across them. Now they’re high up, or even in the top ten! I even contemplated giving a girl the middle name James before that was a thing! It’s incredible how entire generations move like that.
So exciting!! I had twin boys this year, and I’m excited to see that one of their names isn’t as high as I thought in the top 100 and that the other half isn’t in the top 1000 at all. Part of me wanted them to have similar name popularities, but I think I like it better this way because it seems less planned on our part.
Side note: Naming twins is HARD!
the other *one isn’t in the top 1000 at all
Just skimmed the data and the thing that jumped out at me was that two spellings of Denise are the fastest rising girl names! It seems firmly in the category of grandma/boomer names in style purgatory. Anyone know what the deal is with Denise?
Moll, yes, I was wondering the same thing! Why Denise/Denisse?!
According to Appellation Mountain’s post, there’s an actress in a Netflix show named Denisse that might explain (some of) the increase.
https://appellationmountain.net/new-girl-names-2021-artemis-etta-wrenley/