Social Security releases top 2012 baby names

[Anonymous]

Today's release... just for fun!

http://ssa.gov/pressoffice/pr/babynames2012-pr.html

[Anonymous]

Thanks! Now I can tell all the snarks that my kid's name is 105th on the list for 2012 despite what they think!

[Anonymous]

My boys have names that have been between 100 and 200 steadily for the past two decades. Fine. (their names have not shown up as the title character in a Disney movie and have not been the name of a notorious criminal)

I have friends that have a Jacob AND a Sophia. Talk about your front runners!

[jindc]

ugh some of these "popular" names are so bad.

ETA: do these lists really influence people? We've had names picked out forever as a way to honor relatives who have passed away. That won't change....do you really judge people who name their kids and the name ends up popular? Is this a thing?

[Anonymous]

Boys:
Jacob
Mason
Ethan
Noah
William
Liam
Jayden
Michael
Alexander
Aiden
Girls:
Sophia
Emma
Isabella
Olivia
Ava
Emily
Abigail
Mia
Madison
Elizabeth

[Anonymous]

My kid's name has been creeping up, but never lower than 75.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thanks! Now I can tell all the snarks that my kid's name is 105th on the list for 2012 despite what they think!

Larla?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thanks! Now I can tell all the snarks that my kid's name is 105th on the list for 2012 despite what they think!

Max or Paige?

[Anonymous]

Always fun. The highest my daughter's name ever reached in the past 50 years was 745th and it apparently hasn't been in the top 1000 since 2009.

I don't know how much the lists influence people. I don't judge someone just because the name ended up "popular"--what a stupid thing to judge. We have friends of Italian heritage who named their daughter Sofia--why would I judge that? It's a pretty name. And Jayden/Brayden/Ayden/Kayden/Cayden/Zayden is dumb no matter how popular or unpopular it is. (Seriously, check out the top 500 and see how many variations and different spellings of this name there are.)

[Anonymous]

jindc wrote:ugh some of these "popular" names are so bad.

ETA: do these lists really influence people? We've had names picked out forever as a way to honor relatives who have passed away. That won't change....do you really judge people who name their kids and the name ends up popular? Is this a thing?

No but I know someone who named her daughters Isabella and Sophia and thinks she came up with the most beautiful names in the world all on her own. I just want to tell her, "Those are the most common names in the US right now, you are not some baby naming wizard."

[Anonymous]

do it. Then come back and tell us how it went.

[Anonymous]

jindc wrote:ugh some of these "popular" names are so bad.

ETA: do these lists really influence people? We've had names picked out forever as a way to honor relatives who have passed away. That won't change....do you really judge people who name their kids and the name ends up popular? Is this a thing?

They do influence me somewhat for naming my child only. However if we have another girl, we may go with Charlotte no matter how popular it gets just because DH and I love it. Our other DCs have names that are recognizable normal names but not popular. I would never judge someone for naming their child a popular name - especially because many of the popular names are fantastic.

I would privately think "oh poor kid" if I met a girl named Nevaeh or Trinity.

[Anonymous]

Our twins names have remained in the low 200's and the high 300's for popularity for 2012. Suits us just right. We wanted common but infrequent. Common so that everyone was familiar with the names and infrequent to avoid running into too many people with the same name.

[Anonymous]

Jayden, Aiden.. wait, you forgot Cayden!

[Anonymous]

Interesting. DD Elizabeth is #10 in 2012 and #10 in 1983, the year of her birth.