It's official! The top names of 2005
Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt Tue, 16 May 2006 01:41:00 GMT
Every year the Social Security administration announces the most popular American baby names of the year.
Here is this year’s top 10
Girls
Emily
Emma
Madison
Abigail
Olivia
Isabella
Hannah
Samantha
Ava
Ashley
Boys
Jacob
Michael
Joshua
Matthew
Ethan
Andrew
Daniel
Anthony
Christopher
Joseph
This is very similar to last year’s top 10, with the top seven boy’s names being exactly the same as last years.
The Social Security Administration’s web site has a lot more details. You can look up the most popular baby names by birth year back to 1980. Even the most popular baby names by decade back to the 1880’s.
And while we are on the subject of baby names, this is a very cool site, The Baby Name Wizard’s Name Voyager.
This is site uses a java applet that presents a dynamic graph of a name’s popularity since the 1880. Pink is for girls, blue is for boys, so as you type in a name, you will get graphical data for all names that start with the letters of the name you are looking for. So for example, if you start typing in Jack, you will first get all of the J names, then the names with JA, and so on.
This site is the responsibility of Laura Wattenberg, the author of The Baby Name Wizard, a practical guide to baby name styles and ideas. She also maintains the Name News Blog with the latest information.
The data in the graphs is from the United States only, but if you know of any available data from other countries, please contact Ms. Wattenberg.
