Top 10 Baby Names for 2009

[Bucky]

Top 10 Names for 2009
Rank | Male name | Female name
 1       Jacob         Isabella
 2       Ethan         Emma
 3       Michael       Olivia
 4       Alexander   Sophia
 5       William       Ava
 6       Joshua       Emily
 7       Daniel        Madison
 8       Jayden       Abigail
 9       Noah         Chloe
10      Anthony     Mia

[Faygo Kid]

1. Link?

Always interesting. When my daughter Emily was born, no one named their child that. It was about 150th among girls' names. Then it jumped to number 1 and stayed there for years. Now Isabella?? At least it's not Tiffany.

[Crystal Clarity]

2. Yeah, my 20 year old niece is an Emily

Same thing at the time. Not many of them around then, but now, wow!

[emilyg]

16. Hi niece. Emily here,

[Crystal Clarity]

21. Hi Emily!

I love your name! :-)

[Odin2005]

3. I like all the names except Jayden.

I am SOOOOO sick of the -ayden names.

[Bucky]

5. I feel the same about "Mia". It looks like the parents were too lazy to think up a whole name.

[Withywindle]

4. Anybody notice that the top two are characters in 'Twilight'?

I think, anyway...is Bella an Isabella?


I don't like "ayden" names either, and "Madison," really? STILL?

[Odin2005]

6. Yeah, I think Bella is short for Isabella.

I like the name "Madison" and it's short form "maddy"

[Withywindle]

12. "Maddy" was originally short for "Madeleine" or "Madeline"

"Madison" as a female first name only dates back to a godawful 1985 movie.

[Luciferous]

7. My daughter is 11 and there are 3 Madisons in her class, so I

guess it's been popular for a while :shrug:

[Withywindle]

8. It was never a female name, or a first name for anyone

..until that 1985 movie with Darryl Hannah as a mermaid, who gets washed up on the streets of NYC, and she looks up to read the sign and tells the first person who asks that that's her name.

She could just have easily called herself "10th Avenue" if she'd washed up on the west side.

[kentauros]

9. Bella is both its own name and short for "Isabel" and "Isabella" :)

Bella - name meaning, origin

The girl's name Bella \b(el)-la\ is pronounced BELL-ah. It is of Italian and Latin origin, and the meaning of Bella is "beautiful". Also a short form of Isabel or Isabella (Hebrew) "God's promise". Author/politician Bella Abzug; author Belva Plain.

Bella has 7 variant forms: Bel, Bell, Belle, Bellissa, Belva, Beyla and Labella.

For more information, see also related names Claribel, Arabella and Elizabeth.

Baby names that sound like Bella are Beula, Billa, Belia and Pella.

Bella is a very common first name for women (#1202 out of 4276) and also a very common last name for both men and women (#15273 out of 88799). (1990 U.S. Census)

[Arugula Latte]

10. It's time for Madison to drop off the list ...

Too many "Madis" running around ...

[pinboy3niner]

11. They need more-creative names like "Cod Semen" or "Boyfriend's Crotch"

:evilgrin:

[Arugula Latte]

13. Those are good.

They really paint a picture in your head. :)

[Mojambo]

14. Still no Otto on the list.

That's what I'm naming my first boy, or girl.

Otto.

[kentauros]

15. Otto Pilot?

:P

[snagglepuss]

24. "Still no Otto?" LOLOL

Thanks, I needed that laugh.

[cherish44]

17. Only two "trendy" names on there...cool!

Madison and Jayden. (hopefully those two will drop into oblivion in the next couple years) I love classic names but I admit I did give my daughter a trendy name ...Kayla...but it's not one of those obnoxiously overused names like Madison (and at least Kayla is a pretty name :))

[progressoid]

18. One of those is my daughter (now 16) and another is one of our cats

that she named.


Hmmm.

[MilesColtrane]

19. The boys names are extra "bibley".

This portends poorly.

[NewJeffCT]

20. Boys' names have always been "bibley"

These are the top names from the 1980s...

1 Michael 663,168
2 Christopher 554,514
3 Matthew 458,638
4 Joshua 396,369
5 David 383,319
6 James 356,153
7 Daniel 345,196
8 Robert 321,435
9 John 320,837
10 Joseph

http://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/decades/names1980s.html

I think those are all from the Bible. I don't know if Jayden is in the Bible from 2009?

[kimi]

22. Interesting

I used to work as an OB nurse so I was in on parents naming their kiddoes. But that was in Cheyenne, Wyoming, so a lot of girls, and some boys, actually, ended up as "Cheyenne" whatever. Or "Shayann", "Shyinn", "Shayonne" - we got all kinds of names on birth certificates there. I only really got into an argument with one guy who insisted that his daughter's name "Aisling" should be pronounced "Ays-ling" instead of the proper Gaelic pronunciation of "Ash-leen".

Whatever. I've had 5 boys, but always, with each one, held out a hope of delivering a darling little girl baby. But not one named any of THOSE names. My goodness, how common.

Edit for my goofy spelling. *blush*

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

23. Madison? Still? Bleh.

It's a state capitol. Would you name your child Albuquerque? Tallahassee? Bismarck? Montpelier?