#name trends

[raptured-night]

The Science of Baby-Name Trends | JSTOR Daily

What makes a name suddenly pop—and then die? Social scientists and historians have been puzzling over this for decades.

[chacusha]

One minor odd thing about moving to the UK from the U.S. is realizing that "Simon" is a very common name here, but it's not a common name in the U.S. Like, at one point in my work, I was regularly meeting with no fewer than three different Simons, and that would just never happen in the U.S. It's such a random little regional difference!

[namesnums]

The Rise of the Aidens: given names ending in -aiden/aydin/etc.

According to data from the US Social Security Administration, such names peaked in and around 2008.

Regex pattern: "(a[iye]+|.+a[iye]?)d[eaioyu]n$"

The above graph includes some 382 names. By total number, the top 30 are:

Jayden, Aiden, Hayden, Brayden, Aidan, Jaden, Ayden, Kayden, Caden, Kaden, Kaiden, Braden, Cayden, Jaiden, Zayden, Caiden, Jadyn, Braydon, Braeden, Raiden, Jadon, Zaiden, Jaydon, Jaidyn, Braiden, Aydan, Aydin, Jaeden, Rayden, and Haiden

[namesnums]

Average Scrabble score of US names, weighted by usage

The average Scrabble score is increasing, but the trend falls apart when we weight by the number of usages.

It's important to weight by the number of usages because we want to consider the number of babies actually given each name.

Scrabble points from here:

1 point: E, A, I, O, N, R, T, L, S, U 2 points: D, G 3 points: B, C, M, P 4 points: F, H, V, W, Y 5 points: K 8 points: J, X 10 points: Q, Z

[everydayanth]

They keep using my name in trendy Netflix movies now...

I’m really not a fan. 

Stop it. We had Fern Gully, that was enough. 

You’ve done enough. I do not require equal representation, please stick with your hannahs, sarahs, and Elizabeths. 

Or just get really inventive and go wild. Different spellings don’t count. 

That’s all.

[thenamegarden]

Baby Names: Bye Bye Top 1000!

As the yearly name statistics come out, we’re often greeted with new and exciting names. We also say goodbye to a group of names that didn’t quite make it back to the popularity rankings from the year before.

Here are the names that ranked in 2014, but dropped from the top 1000 names in the year of 2015.

Boys

Eliezer

Tristian

Rylee

Arnav

Ramiro

Jayse

Randall

Yael

Johnathon

Clinton

Konner

Aidyn

Gino

Gavyn

Jovanni

Jaycob

Jericho

Makhi

Khalid

Efrain

Semaj

Giovanny

Kale

Broderick

Koen

Mike

Brayson

Darien

Teagan

Bridger

Menachem

Foster

Howard

Maddux

Jair

Ayan

Tyree

Garrison

Rylen

Girls

Isis

Cindy

Danika

Miley

Mollie

Aubri

Abbigail

Taryn

Temperance

Audriana

Mckayla

Diamond

Kaidence

Sherlyn

Ayanna

Anniston

Kaleigh

Anabel

Janae

Macey

Alyvia

Annabell

Alisa

Mercy

Dalia

Sonia

Mattie

Ayva

Renee

Lesly

Riya

Abrielle

Bryn

Carlie

Magdalena

Pyper

Antonia

Kylah

Alaysia

Rosalyn

Tamia

Patience

Mercedes

Samiyah

Aanya

Cambria

[thenamegarden]

New Names in the US Top 1000

Each year, when the SSA releases the new naming statistics within the US, we get to see fresh names appearing in the top 1000. Whether they be completely new names, or older names regaining popularity, it’s always exciting to see which names are coming back to life.

Here are the newest arrivals to the US Top 1000′s latest statistics, in 2015.

Girls Names

Names that featured in the top 1000 for the first time:

Alaia

Lennox

Royal

Adilynn

Kalani

Briar

Romina

Aminah

Andi

Dalary

Aitana

Vienna

Meilani

Harmoni

Aislinn

Elora

Heavenly

Kensington

Noor

Zaylee

Names making a return to the top 1000, in 2015:

Adaline

Zelda

Amaris

Adley

Kaya

Analia

Jayde

Nathalia

Sarahi

Arden

Esperanza

Kyndall

Veda

Luz

Ellis

Tinley

Ophelia

Charlize

Avalyn

Taya

Lyra

Sariyah

Giavanna

Rhea

Frankie

Princess

Alianna

Boys Names

Names that featured in the top 1000 for the first time:

Canaan

Shiloh

Jonael

Riaan

Musa

Jaziel

Cairo

Kashton

Avi

Sutton

Huxley

Wilder

Achilles

Yahya

Kye

Brixton

Briar

Names making a return to the top 1000, in 2015:

Otis

Denver

Immanuel

Ignacio

Ridge

Boone

Jabari

Kamren

Louie

Aarush

Robin

Yadiel

Todd

Haiden

Dangelo

Juelz

Bishop

Freddy

Malaki

Leroy

Antoine

[thenamegarden]

Baby Names: The Chart Climbers of 2015

Each year, the Social Security Administration (SSA) of the US releases baby name statistics for all the children born in the previous year, with the 2015 data just released at the start of May. Amongst the rise and fall of names, there are always a select few that sky-rocket through the popularity chats. Between 2014 and 2015, these were the top 10 names for each gender that rose the most in the popularity rankings (with the amount of places in brackets).

Girls

Alaia (+2012)

Meilani (+1836)

Aitana (+1721)

Aislinn (+1385)

Taya (+1107)

Adaline (+1029)

Briar (+597)

Zelda (+512)

Adley (+495)

Lennox (+416)

Boys

Riaan (+1360)

Huxley (+392)

Wilder (+360)

Jaziel (+276)

Canaan (+271)

Kaison (+251)

Brixton (+212)

Ridge (+204)

Omari (+198)

Jabari (+194)