Fastest rising baby names — Dutton, Wrenlee, Arlet?

[Anonymous]

Liam is the top boys names as usual, according to new social security data out today. Olivia tops for girls. More interesting perhaps was in the “fastest rising” names.

I like some of these, others not so much.

Here are the top five fastest rising boys’ and girls’ names in 2022:

Boys Girls
1. Dutton 1. Wrenlee
2. Kayce 2. Neriah
3. Chosen 3. Arlet
4. Khaza 4. Georgina
5. Eithan 5. Amiri

[Anonymous]

Hideous

[Anonymous]

Dutton must be some weird reference to the show 'Yellowstone' - awful.

Anyone who names a child Wrenlee should not be surprised when it's changed as soon as possible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hideous

Truly awful.

[Anonymous]

Wouldn’t “fastest rising” just mean “biggest statistical jump”?

So if you had 0 Duttons in 2021 and then there were 3 in 2022, that’s a 300% increase…and if there were 6 in 2023, that’s a 600% jump from 2021. So it’s not that there’s so many Duttons, it’s just that 600% increase is more statistically significant than 3,000 Emmas in 2021 rising to 3,050 Emmas in 2022.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wouldn’t “fastest rising” just mean “biggest statistical jump”?

So if you had 0 Duttons in 2021 and then there were 3 in 2022, that’s a 300% increase…and if there were 6 in 2023, that’s a 600% jump from 2021. So it’s not that there’s so many Duttons, it’s just that 600% increase is more statistically significant than 3,000 Emmas in 2021 rising to 3,050 Emmas in 2022.

Yes. That's why these names are so weird.

That said, I think Georgina and Amiri are actually pretty.

Eithan and Kayce make my eyes twitch. I often wish they could just expunge alternate spellings from the list altogether. If people want to do alternate spellings, that's their problem, but it's dumb when they wind up on these lists because it's not a different name. I think Nameberry sometimes combines common spellings of the same name (Sarah/Sara, for instance) for their lists, and it makes sense. If you are wondering about the popularity of the name, I would factor in alternative spellings because being Eithan in a class with two Ethans is not going to make you unique in the way your were hoping.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hideous

Truly awful.

Exactly.

[Anonymous]

What's the reason for the rise of Georgina?

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Anonymous wrote:What's the reason for the rise of Georgina?

Ronaldo’s girlfriend maybe

[Anonymous]

Yeah, those are pretty much all bad. I know an adult Georgina! The rest of those names are reeeal bad.

I was surprised to see my son's name jump up the SSA list from #126 when we named him 7 years ago to #10 today. But oddly in DC, we know about 8 kids with our other child's name (in the 800s in popularity) and very few of his name.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, those are pretty much all bad. I know an adult Georgina! The rest of those names are reeeal bad.

I was surprised to see my son's name jump up the SSA list from #126 when we named him 7 years ago to #10 today. But oddly in DC, we know about 8 kids with our other child's name (in the 800s in popularity) and very few of his name.

DC is funny this way. We have a child with a top 50 name that we hemmed and hawed about for ages because I worried it would be too popular. But we really loved it and couldn't find another name we like nearly so well, so we went with it and hoped for the best. Never met another child with that name.

Second child named after a family member and the name was not on the top 1000 when we picked it, now ranked in the 800s. Have met two kids with the same name, one of whom is in the same grade as DC at school.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wouldn’t “fastest rising” just mean “biggest statistical jump”?

So if you had 0 Duttons in 2021 and then there were 3 in 2022, that’s a 300% increase…and if there were 6 in 2023, that’s a 600% jump from 2021. So it’s not that there’s so many Duttons, it’s just that 600% increase is more statistically significant than 3,000 Emmas in 2021 rising to 3,050 Emmas in 2022.

Yes. That's why these names are so weird.

That said, I think Georgina and Amiri are actually pretty.

Eithan and Kayce make my eyes twitch. I often wish they could just expunge alternate spellings from the list altogether. If people want to do alternate spellings, that's their problem, but it's dumb when they wind up on these lists because it's not a different name. I think Nameberry sometimes combines common spellings of the same name (Sarah/Sara, for instance) for their lists, and it makes sense. If you are wondering about the popularity of the name, I would factor in alternative spellings because being Eithan in a class with two Ethans is not going to make you unique in the way your were hoping.

Maybe focus on your own life, get a hobby and calm down?

[Anonymous]

Cringeworthy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wouldn’t “fastest rising” just mean “biggest statistical jump”?

So if you had 0 Duttons in 2021 and then there were 3 in 2022, that’s a 300% increase…and if there were 6 in 2023, that’s a 600% jump from 2021. So it’s not that there’s so many Duttons, it’s just that 600% increase is more statistically significant than 3,000 Emmas in 2021 rising to 3,050 Emmas in 2022.

Yes. That's why these names are so weird.

That said, I think Georgina and Amiri are actually pretty.

Eithan and Kayce make my eyes twitch. I often wish they could just expunge alternate spellings from the list altogether. If people want to do alternate spellings, that's their problem, but it's dumb when they wind up on these lists because it's not a different name. I think Nameberry sometimes combines common spellings of the same name (Sarah/Sara, for instance) for their lists, and it makes sense. If you are wondering about the popularity of the name, I would factor in alternative spellings because being Eithan in a class with two Ethans is not going to make you unique in the way your were hoping.

Do you realize that most of us name our babies what we want, and have no delusions that our kids’ names are going to be “unique”? Unless you literally make something up, it’s not going to be “unique.” Get over yourself.

[Anonymous]

OP here. I have no idea how Social Security selected the fastest rising names for this list -- but yes, rising from an absurdly low number to a slightly higher number would make it a big percentage jump. I assume these are the first time many of these names have cracked the top 1,000.

But here is what their database says about the top picks here.

For 2022, the number of births with name Dutton is 291, which represents 0.016 percent of total male births in 2022. (Rank 835th among boys)

For 2022, the number of births with name Wrenlee is 413, which represents 0.023 percent of total female births in 2022. (Rank, 712th among girls)