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My son is at #55, which is about where he was when I named him. And my daughter is still not in the top 100. I have no idea where her name falls, I gave it to her because it was my mother's middle name.
I find it odd that Nevaeh is at #60something and Frances barely registers when a few decades ago it would have been the other way around, but I guess that just shows that names, especially girls' names, really do go in and out of fashion.
My mom's first and middle names are Enid Esther. (Generally I keep my mom's maiden name secret.)
Sienna is in the top 100? Why would you want to be named for an undistinguished shade of brown?
Top 10 baby names of 2007
Oh my total god. Aiden, Jayden, Braden, Hayden and Cayden? WTF, parents of boys! Come up with new names, please!!
Sienna is in the top 100? Why would you want to be named for an undistinguished shade of brown?
So your child will grow up like this!
While the rule of thumb is something like great-grandparents' generation names will be the ones that become popular again when you have kids, my family is Old, so my working theory is that my mother's name--which happens to be Esther--will become popular around the time that her grandchildren are old enough to have kids
Esther is actually being named for one of her great-grandmothers (our paternal grandmother, born 1907...although she would have never admitted it!).
Oh my total god. Aiden, Jayden, Braden, Hayden and Cayden? WTF, parents of boys! Come up with new names, please!!
Mayden! Zayden! Clayden! Fayden!
Do any of those work for you?
Esther is actually being named for one of her great-grandmothers (our paternal grandmother, born 1907...although she would have never admitted it!).
I considered my maternal grandmother's name (Edith, called Edie), but was sternly struck down.
I also lobbied for Maud.
And a few other fuddy duddy old person names.
Lillian was the only one we could really agree on.
Sienna is in the top 100? Why would you want to be named for an undistinguished shade of brown?
So your child will grow up like this!
Or this: [link]
Mayden! Zayden! Clayden! Fayden!
I think, in desperation, boys will have to start poaching on girls' territory (heretofore a big no-no) and start being named Elsie, Destry, and Hepzibah.
Bepzibah! Zepzibah! At least it's not Braden.