Posted: 15 Dec 2009 02:57 AM PST

Baby, Marie Claire News Rex Features

Do you know a child named Aiden or Madeline? Chances are someone will as they proved to be the top name choices for boys and girls in 2009.

But it's celebrities who have had the most influence on new parents, boosting the popularity of monikers such as Miley, Rihanna and Kingston.

Baby naming website www.nameberry.com said names moving fastest up the popularity ladder included Khloe, after reality TV star Khloe Kardashian, various spellings of Marley, after the romantic comedy film starring Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston, and Miley, after teen star Cyrus.

Nameberry creator Pamela Redmond Satran's prediction for the next decade is that there will be more Edwards and a lot more Bellas being born due to the success of the Twilight film franchise.

Rounding out the top names for boys in 2009 were Matthew, Owen, Ethan, Jackson, Evan, Braden, Noah, Jack and Zachary.

For girls it was Madison, Emma, Hannah, Olivia, Audrey, Isabella, Grace, Taylor and Emily.

Top boy names of the decade were Jacob, Michael, Ethan, Christopher, Jack, Daniel, Aiden, William, Joshua and Ryder.

Whilst the topping the list for girls were Emma, Madison, Emily, Hannah, Olivia, Samantha, Ashley. Ava, Elizabeth and Madelyn.

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Top Baby Girl and Boy Names Attract Expecting Parents - HULIQ

Posted: 14 Dec 2009 08:21 PM PST

Popular baby names come and go with fads, and celebrities in the hottest blockbuster movie at the time. However, the names Miley and Beyonce for girls, or Tiger for a boy, may not have the same appeal 10-20 years from now when they're older.

Resist the urge to name your baby with something your child will resent you for when they're looking for a job or a spouse. Silly names, names of celebrities that eventually fade, or names that can't be pronounced, will always be made fun of by the neighborhood bully. Traditional biblical names have always been popular with parents, as will family names of grandparents or great aunts and uncles, passed down through the generations. Think before you name your baby!

The Daily Beast recently posted a great article called "Top Baby Names for the Future" – 10 years into the future that is! They reason that it's way more fun to think of names that will be popular in 2019, than for right now in the present. A lot of the names they came up with are traditional names, and what we would think are old-fashioned names that were popular 50 years ago – or older. Here's what The Daily Beast came up with. What do you think about this list? What would you name your baby if you were looking into the future?

Top Baby Girl Names for 2019

Ava, Avery or Ada
Amelia or Emilia
Ella, Bella or Ellie
Violet or Scarlett
Lila or Delilah
Grace, Gracie or Patience
Ruby, Goldie or Pearl
Matilda or Millie
Harper, Flannery or Scout
Evelyn or Eveline

Top Baby Boys Names for 2019

Ethan, Caleb or Asher
Aiden
Milo or Leo
Charlie or Sam
Oscar or Felix
Ryder or Wyatt
Cash or Chase
River or Hudson
Kai or Luca
Maximus, Max, Maxwell, Maxfield or Maximilian

Source: The Daily Beast; wikipedia

Written by Donna Diegel
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EU To Regulate Baby Names - Band of Slugs (blog)

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 03:54 AM PST

EU To Regulate Baby Names

European Politician Announces Plan to Regulate Baby Names

The all conquering EU is to regulate baby names in a bid to harmonise a European identity for the next phase of it's plan to remove cultural identity among it's citizens. The plan will see British babies being given Spanish, German and French names and will eventually include a numbering system for surnames to assist an EU taxation system.

Baby names such as Jack and Mary will be banned and replaced with foreign equivalent such as Jaques and Mailiana, any body across Europe using a predominantly British name will have their baby taken away and put in to a new care system being set up in Romania. The care system will include a correction facility to ensure the child does not demonstrate any British traits during its childhood. Once mature the newly conditioned EU citizen will be entered in to service of the EU as bureaucrats and thought police.

Labour are expected to fast-track the Baby Name Bill through parliament before the next election to guarantee it is not opposed by the wrong-thinking opposition parties who believe that removing a parents right to choose their own baby name should not be removed from them. Labour have issued a statement that said "We believe this is the right thing to do, to harmonise a European-wide cultural identity and foster a new age of togetherness must be at the forefront of our agenda. Clearly, anyone who does not support this must be removed from society for the good of all people. Baby names are not to be offered out to just anyone and responsibility needs to be taken. These are the tough decisions that we have to make."

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Name that star! - Ethiopian Review

Posted: 14 Dec 2009 03:43 PM PST

A good friend of mine recently gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. In searching for an appropriate gift, I came across a book by Michael Sherrod and Matthew Rayback called Bad Baby Names. The book trawls through 40 years of U.S. census data to catalog some of the most disastrous names bestowed upon American children. Examples include Acne Fountain, Emma Royd, Fanny Pack, Nice Carr, and Post Office.

Many hours of belly laughs later and I began to feel rather guilty. How terrible it must be to labor through life as Super Mann. How the schoolyard must cackle when Garage Empty is called back to class. For children with truly awful names, life is undeniably tough. Sherwood and Rayback found that these kids are more likely to require psychiatric care and to perform poorly at school. But then again, even if you're not called Warren Peace, what chance do you really have with parents even willing to consider the name?

Even for the majority of us not saddled with monickers such as Infinity Hubbard and Hugh Jass, names can go some way toward determining future success in life. One particularly intriguing set of analyses was conducted by Leif Nelson at UCSD and Joseph Simmons at Yale University. The authors found that individuals with the letter 'A' or 'B' in theirs initials are more likely to achieve higher grades and attend higher-ranked universities than those with 'C' or 'D' initials. Similarly, baseball players whose names begin with the strikeout-signifying letter 'K' tend to strike out more often. Nelson and Jackson contend that this represents an unconscious drive to produce "name-resembling performance". I have trouble stomaching that particular suggestion, but name-letter effects do appear in many walks of life.

If I am called Lawrence, for example, I am more likely to move to Los Angeles for the simple reason that our names both begin with 'L'. If I am called Doris, I am more likely to move to Denver. This is known as "implicit egotism" and has been observed in career choice (people named Dennis or Denise are overrepresented among dentists) and choice of partner (people are more likely to marry those whose first or last names resemble their own). Whatever the reason, there does seem to be more to a name than meets the eye.

Although I am sometimes skeptical of social science research, the impact of broader cultural factors on cognition and cognitive decisions is undeniable. G2C Online is all about how different levels of understanding synchronize to produce human behavior – about how experiences can alter gene expression and neural connections. We receive all our experiences through the filter of culture and history and it would be foolish to underestimate them. That said, I am not rushing to name my first son Aaron Aarvark.