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- Top baby names of the future - Toronto Sun
- Madison is number three on list of most popular baby names of the decade - Wisconsin State Journal
- Popular Baby Names For This Decade And The Next - ParentDish (blog)
| Top baby names of the future - Toronto Sun Posted: 23 Dec 2009 11:16 PM PST What's in a name? Either a lifetime of contented bliss or years of miserable playground agony, depending on the selection. It's the stuff parents mull over for hours, weeks, days, months, sometimes even years: What to name their baby. Do you honour a beloved family member? Dare select a name a dear friend has already selected? Randomly flip to a page in the baby book and, wherever you're finger happens to land, just go with that? Or, do you try to come up with something fresh and new - the kind of tag that'll get your kid noticed? Well, if you know someone named Jacob or Emma, you're witnessing two of the trendiest names to hit the radar in the last decade, according to the Canadian-based personalized children's music company, Name Your Tune, which pinpointed the hottest names based on customer orders. Meanwhile, the chart-topping names for 2009 were Aiden and Madeline. That said, it should be noted that it appears ordinary spellings are becoming completely passe. Sure, parents might choose a traditional name, but oftentimes it will have its own spin. After all, without some edge, how can one's offspring be expected to separate itself from the pack, after all? Certainly calling your kids Bill and Jane would simplify things, but modern parents don't want simple. To avoid run-of-the-mill name calling, parents are twisting up the spelling variations of otherwise very common names. Take Aiden, for instance. Sure, it's the biggest names of '09, but don't assume you know how to spell it. Should you meet an Aiden, there's a very good chance it's spelled Ayden, Aden, Aidyn, Aidan or Aaden. Of course they're all pronounced exactly the same, but that's not the point: On paper, that extra bit of zeal stands out from the crowd. But perhaps you're bored of crossing paths with so many Aidens, Adens or Aidyns. Thankfully there are oodles of handy spin-offs to consider, such as Jayden, Brayden, Hayden and Caden. "I tend to think parents are just trying to find something a little different and a little more unique," says Name Your Tune Creator Candace Alper. "It's not just that people are making up names, they're also making up spellings." Since starting the business in 2003, a lot of name-shifting has certainly taken place. "I find that when a celebrity gives a child an interesting name, people follow," says Alper. Throughout the years, Alper says they've made personalized CDS for kids named Coco (which also happens to be the name of Courteney Cox's daughter); Kingston (think son of Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale); Apple (daughter of Gwyneth Paltrow and Coldplay frontman Chris Martin) and even Bronx (Ashlee Simpson, anyone?) On a more classic note, it seems Madeline is still making the rounds, although it too has become slightly too 'kid-next-door' ordinary. Parents still enamored with the lovely sound of the name have concocted their own creative versions of the name Madeline, with everything from Madeleine and Maddelin to Madalen and Madelynn popping up on birth certificates. So, what can we expect for baby names in 2010 and beyond? Well, vampirism may be where it's at. With the Twilight buzz not likely to simmer down anytime soon, some vampire inspiration is bound to be making its mark in the maternity ward. Indeed it probably won't be long until we all know a little Bella or Edward getting rolled around in strollers in our respective neighbourhoods. "I've seen quite a few more Bellas coming through," says Alper. "The parents might be fans of the movie, or they could just really like the name." Baby buzz: Folks certainly got their cute kid fix this year with Evian's Live Young water campaign. The ad, staring 'roller skating,' diaper-clad toddlers boogying to Rapper's Delight, generated so much traffic (25,687,416 online views worldwide) it ranked as YouTube's fifth most watched video of the year worldwide. Meanwhile, Time magazine named it the Best Advertisement of the year. Top names for boys in 2009: 1. Aiden/Aidan/Aden
Top names for girls in 2009: 1. Madelyn/Madeleine/Madelynn
Top boy names from 2000-2009 1. Jacob
Top girl names from 2000-2009 1. Emma
(Source: Name Your Tune) Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Madison is number three on list of most popular baby names of the decade - Wisconsin State Journal Posted: 23 Dec 2009 02:25 PM PST The blog "BabyCenter" on shine.yahoo.com has announced the most popular baby names of the decade. Number three on the list for girls: Madison. Emma topped that group, followed by Emily. Isabella and Ava came in fourth and fifth, respectively. Among boys, Aiden, Jacob, Ethan, Matthew and Nicolas were the names most in vogue in the aught years. The top five girls' names of 2009, according to the blog: Isabella, Sophia, Emma, Olivia and Ava. And for boys: Aiden, Ethan, Jackson, Jayden and Jacob. Two more names that are popular in the White House, and moving up the national list? Sasha and Malia, Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Popular Baby Names For This Decade And The Next - ParentDish (blog) Posted: 23 Dec 2009 10:52 AM PST Anyone can tell you what names were popular in the past ten years. But how about the next ten years? Earlier this year, name expert Laura Wattenberg of BabyNameWizard.com made her predictions for the top baby names of 2019, and just recently Pamela Redmond Satran and Linda Rosenkrantz of Nameberry.com made their own list. We compared the most popular names of the 2000s from the Social Security Administration's website with the future-gazing of Nameberry and ParentDish's own Name Lady. Then we checked with Wattenberg for some further insight. Here's what we found out: Number One Name For Girls, past decade: Emily
Number One Name For Girls, future decade: Ava (Nameberry), Lila (Baby Name Wizard) Nameberry's Satran and Rosenkrantz aren't exactly going out on a limb with their choice for the number one girl name of the future. They say that "Ava has come from nowhere in the past 20 years," and a graph from BabyNameWizard.com shows that they are correct.
For the decade that has just past, Ava was at number 19. BabyNameWizard.com says that Ava is "Of uncertain origin and meaning," and "is thought to be a short form of the Germanic Aveza or Avia, which are also of uncertain meaning." Oh, how mysterious! The Name Lady's choice for top girl name of the next decade was a bit more daring -- Lila. To come up with her prediction, Wattenberg told ParentDish in a phone interview that she sees a trend toward names with "strong 'I' sounds," and Lila certainly fits. This graph shows that there may be more to the choice than just the sound, however. Notice how Lila was quite popular many years ago, peaking at 196 in the 1920's. Then, it dropped off significantly, and has recently been rising faster than most of our stock portfolios.
Number One Name For Boys, past decade: Jacob Here's your "Twilight" name! Perhaps influenced by Twi-hards across this great land, Jacob was the most popular name for boys in the 2000's, according to the SSA. (For those keeping score at home, Edward was down at 130. Oh, the horror.) The name has been number one since 2003, as shown on this graph from BabyNameWizard.com.
So does the popularity of the name Jacob have anything to do with the shirtless Number One Name For Boys, future decade: Ethan (Nameberry), Miles (Baby Name Wizard) Again, not a particularly bold choice from Nameberry. Ethan has indeed been rising in popularity the past few years; it was way down at 55 in the 1990's, rising to 8th in the 2000's.
The Name Lady was more daring with Miles, which was way down at 217 for the decade that is about to be history, according to SSA data. Again, it's that strong "I" sound, and a quick glance at a graph shows that Miles is indeed sneaking its way up the charts -- 231 in 2003, and 167 in 2008. What other naming trends does Wattenberg see coming in the next ten years? "The long A has been the key sound of the past decade," she told us, citing names such as Jacob (#1 for boys) and Ava (#19 for girls). Wattenberg thinks that in addition to the the long "I" of Lila, we will see a rise in the long "U", as in Ruby. While many of Nameberry's top choices for the future were already at or close to the top of the SSA's list for the 2000's (or, like Ruby, appeared on The Name Lady's list first), Wattenberg decided to think outside of the baby naming box. "A name can be soaring [in popularity], and it reaches a point where it tops out," she told us. The names on her list may not be popular right now, but they "are all names with some broad cross-over appeal." Related: Advice from The Name Lady. For the full list of predictions for the top baby names of the future, visit BabyNameWizard.com. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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