Top Ten Names

[Tender Branson]

Here are the 10 most popular names for new-borns in the US for 2010:

Girls:

Isabella
Sophia
Emma
Olivia
Ava
Emily
Abigail
Madison
Chloe
Mia

Boys:

Jacob
Ethan
Michael
Jayden
William
Alexander
Noah
Daniel
Aiden
Anthony

http://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames

[Tender Branson]

Here are the Austrian ones for 2010:

Girls:

Anna
Sarah
Lena
Hannah
Leonie
Julia
Sophie
Laura
Marie
Lea

Boys:

Lukas
Tobias
Maximilian
Alexander
David
Jonas
Simon
Jakob
Elias
Florian

http://www.statistik.at/web_de/dynamic/presse/057918

Very biblical ...

[Tender Branson]

Also:

No Austrian boy was named "Adolf" in 2010 ...

[Landslide Lyndon]

Also:

No Austrian boy was named "Adolf" in 2010 ...

I wonder why. Such a lovely name.

[courts]

Awful. What is with all these prim, effeminate names people keep giving their boys? To be unique like all the other Orah book watchers? Very few people can pull off a "Tobias" or "Florian," even with the inevitable dopey nickname. Stick with something that won't get your kid punched in the face, please.

[Associate Justice PiT]

Awful. What is with all these prim, effeminate names people keep giving their boys? To be unique like all the other Orah book watchers? Very few people can pull off a "Tobias" or "Florian," even with the inevitable dopey nickname. Stick with something that won't get your kid punched in the face, please.

     I am partial to Tobias, though that may be because I had a cat by that name. I would never consider giving it to a person.

[courts]

Awful. What is with all these prim, effeminate names people keep giving their boys? To be unique like all the other Orah book watchers? Very few people can pull off a "Tobias" or "Florian," even with the inevitable dopey nickname. Stick with something that won't get your kid punched in the face, please.

     I am partial to Tobias, though that may be because I had a cat by that name. I would never consider giving it to a person.

I am of course being somewhat tongue in cheek, as if where the list was from wasn't an indicator (truthfully I don't care if you name your kid "Augustine" or "Apple" or whatever). It is definitely overdone and sort of annoying trendyhorse behavior though, IMHO.

[Associate Justice PiT]

Awful. What is with all these prim, effeminate names people keep giving their boys? To be unique like all the other Orah book watchers? Very few people can pull off a "Tobias" or "Florian," even with the inevitable dopey nickname. Stick with something that won't get your kid punched in the face, please.

     I am partial to Tobias, though that may be because I had a cat by that name. I would never consider giving it to a person.

I am of course being somewhat tongue in cheek, as if where the list was from wasn't an indicator (truthfully I don't care if you name your kid "Augustine" or "Apple" or whatever). It is definitely overdone and sort of annoying though, tbh.

     Oh, I agree. Though this list really does make me want to lay down the right to name any boys as a ground-rule for marriage.

[minionofmidas]

Awful. What is with all these prim, effeminate names people keep giving their boys? To be unique like all the other Orah book watchers? Very few people can pull off a "Tobias" or "Florian," even with the inevitable dopey nickname. Stick with something that won't get your kid punched in the face, please.

Tobi is a perfectly common man's name in Germany It won't get anybody looked at oddly or punched in the face.
I always thought Florian is ugly, though. It was fashionable(-ish) around the time of my birth as well. The common nickname is Flo (pronounced the same as Floh, "flea").

[minionofmidas]

Oh yeah, here's Germany 2010.

1. Leon
2. Lukas / Lucas
3. Ben
4. Finn / Fynn
5. Jonas
6. Paul
7. Luis / Louis
8. Maximilian
9. Luca / Luka
10. Felix

Yeah, how they define which spellings to combine... beats me. I mean, Luca is Italian for Lukas and Luka is Croatian.

Here's girls:

1. Mia
2. Hannah / Hanna
3. Lena
4. Lea / Leah
5. Emma
6. Anna
7. Leonie / Leoni
8. Lilli / Lilly / Lili
9. Emilie / Emily
10. Lina

[ZuWo]

There are some striking similarities between Germany and the German part of Switzerland:

Boys:

Noah
Luca
Leon
Jonas
David
Nico
Jan
Levin
Leandro
Julian

Girls:

Lena
Mia
Lara
Alina
Lea
Laura
Sara
Anna
Leonie
Julia

[Tender Branson]

Levin ? Never heard of this before.

Leandro ? In the German-part of Switzerland ? What ?

[minionofmidas]

Yeah, the German form is Leander dammit.

[Tender Branson]

Yeah, the German form is Leander dammit.

Sounds very Greek or Italian to me.

I have checked. Only 16 boys were named so in Austria.

[ZuWo]

Levin ? Never heard of this before.

Leandro ? In the German-part of Switzerland ? What ?

Yeah, Levin must be a brand new trend. I don't know anyone with that name but that's probably because I don't know many newborns.

As for Leandro, this is, as far as I know, an Italian name. Now there are very many Italians of the first, second or third generation in the German part of Switzerland, so I guess this is the reason why Leandro is so popular.

[minionofmidas]

Yeah, when friends of my father named their son "Leon" in 1991, the only place I'd ever seen the name was in a list of Byzantine Emperors.
A few years after they started naming every other kid like him, and haven't looked back since. He'll go through life looking older than people assumed he'd be when they heard his name.

[Hash]

Top 10 in Ontario:
boys
1 Ethan
2 Jacob
3 Matthew
4 Nathan
5 Joshua
6 Alexander
7 Lucas
8 Liam
9 Daniel
10 Logan

girls
1 Olivia
2 Emma
3 Ava
4 Emily
5 Isabella
6 Abigail
7 Sarah
8 Madison
9 Ella
10 Hannah

I have no clue why this 'Ava' name is popular. What kind of a name is that?

[GMantis]

Top 10 in Bulgaria (for the 2007-2009 period):

Boys:

1. Georgi
2. Aleksandar
3. Martin
4. Ivan
5. Dimitar
6. Nikolay
7. Daniel
8. Kristiyan
9. Nikola
10. Viktor

Girls:

1. Viktoriya
2. Mariya
3. Gabriela
4. Alexandra
5. Nikol
6. Simona
7. Yoana
8. Gergana
9. Teodora
10. Raya

Is it just me, or do parents show, regardless of nationality, more common sense when naming boys?

[King]

Top baby names in NM were Elijah and Isabella in 2010.  Incidentally, I have a friend and relative who had children of this name last year.

Emma or Isabella seem to be the #1 in almost every state.

[GMantis]

Top baby names in NM were Elijah and Isabella in 2010.  Incidentally, I have a friend and relative who had children of this name last year.

Emma or Isabella seem to be the #1 in almost every state.

Isn't Isabella most commonly used by Hispanics?

[King]

Top baby names in NM were Elijah and Isabella in 2010.  Incidentally, I have a friend and relative who had children of this name last year.

Emma or Isabella seem to be the #1 in almost every state.

Isn't Isabella most commonly used by Hispanics?

And Alabama, apparently.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Here are the 10 most popular names for new-borns in the US for 2010:

Girls:

Isabella
Sophia
Emma
Olivia
Ava
Emily
Abigail
Madison
Chloe
Mia

Boys:

Jacob
Ethan
Michael
Jayden
William
Alexander
Noah
Daniel
Aiden
Anthony

http://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames

I know 5 girls and 7 boys with those names.

[Ban my account ffs!]

Rank   Male name   Number of
males   Female name   Number of
females
1   Mason   406   Ava   384
2   Ethan   343   Olivia   375
3   William   332   Sophia   372
4   Owen   322   Isabella   316
5   Logan   315   Emma   302
6   Jack   299   Abigail   266
7   Samuel   297   Ella   259
8   Jacob   296   Addison   246
9   Jackson   283   Grace   212
10   Carter   273   Emily   200
11   Benjamin   268   Avery   198
12   Noah   262   Chloe   196
13   Evan   261   Elizabeth   192
14   Gavin   255   Lillian   192
15   Alexander   248   Lily   180

That's for minnesota.  The low numbers for any particular name show that people are choosing more unique names for their kids... Back in the 80s there were fewer births but top names were more common... I went to school with a sh**tload of Matts, Mikes, Chirs's, Ashleys, Jennys, and Sarahs

[Paul Kemp]

I want Naso's opinions of these.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Awful. What is with all these prim, effeminate names people keep giving their boys? To be unique like all the other Orah book watchers? Very few people can pull off a "Tobias" or "Florian," even with the inevitable dopey nickname. Stick with something that won't get your kid punched in the face, please.

     I am partial to Tobias, though that may be because I had a cat by that name. I would never consider giving it to a person.

A friend of mine has a son named Tobias, and a son named Jasper.........go figure.