Sunday, January 14, 2007

Silly names for babies

So we're thinking about baby names, and looking through the vital statistics webpage on the most popular baby names for each year from 1997-2005. It shows the top 20, and then goes on to show all the names where there were more than five babies named that name during the year.

(Note: We only got through boys' names, A-M, and no, we don't know/think it's a boy. It might be. "Only your ultrasound technician knows for sure.")

It's a pretty good resource for gauging:
  1. the lengths people will go to (spelling mistake-wise) to give their child a unique name (and fail, because in all the cases we saw, at least 4 other people had done the same thing):

    e.g. Cristian, Dakoda, Danial, Deklan, Karson, Micheal

  2. the lack of understanding about nicknames in today's society:

    e.g. Billy, Danny, Jimmy, Joey, Johnny, Kenny

    Not that these aren't fine nicknames, but the people in question would actually be named: William, Daniel, Joseph, John (or Jonathan), and Kenneth. If you're going to put any of the above names on the kid's birth certificate, why not just put Sport? Or Gomer? Or Four-Eyes?

  3. the (small) number of gutsy but cool parents out there:

    e.g. Axel, Holden, Julius, Lance
Okay, so I may have given away our top choice (Gomer), but don't let on. Hopefully, we'll be able to at least spell our child's name properly...

1 comment:

Broken Suitcases said...

Don't forget those fantastic name suggestions you received from a certain someone at New Year's: "Catriona" for a girl; "Collin" for a boy. Ha.

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