Most popular baby names of 2006 announced by BabyCenter
Categories: Pregnancy & Birth, Media, That's Entertainment
I keep a careful watch on the lists of popular baby names published at the end of every year, mostly to make sure that my daughter's name (or any of the 10,000 names my wife is always throwing out for the next member of our brood) is nowhere near the list, even at the bottom. Well, not to worry. My daughter's name isn't on there. Yet. This year's list produced by BabyCenter shows that Emma and Aiden are still the top names, although the big controversy this year is that parents are naming their Aidens with an E rather than an A (last year, Aidan with an A was the top boy's name)
There were seven new names in the Top 100. For girls, the new names were Aubrey, Juliana, Maggie, and Nevaeh (heaven spelled backward -- maybe I'll name my next daughter Lleh). The new names for boys were Brody, Miles, and Peyton. For what it's worth, here are the top five for each gender:
Boys:
1. Aiden
2. Jacob
3. Ethan
4. Ryan
5. Matthew
Girls:
1. Emma
2. Madison
3. Ava
4. Isabella
5. Kaitlyn
Be sure to check out the entire article for the rest. For example, the number 12 boy's name is Michael and the 32nd is Landon. Landon? ... holy smokes, did I miss something? Is my favorite nineteenth-century fictional father totally coming back into vogue?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 8)
Kathryn 12-13-2006 @ 12:40PM
I thought I was being so original by naming my son my mothers maiden name until some college kid I encountered said "Oh yeah, we thought about doing that too but like, too many girls at my school did that." So much for my so-called originality.
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Jessica 12-13-2006 @ 1:16PM
My daughter's name is not on the list! WOOHOO!!!! I don't think it ever will be.
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Ginny 12-13-2006 @ 1:29PM
I am glad to see my children's names are not on there. Not that they have weird names or even common ones.
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Ginny 12-13-2006 @ 1:30PM
OH P.S. I cracked up at "Lleh". heh heh
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Christina 12-13-2006 @ 1:54PM
So far Cordelia is still not even cracking the top 1000 names, according to the Social Security Administration. And that's fine by me. Although it makes it a little harder to think up a name for baby #2 that is also just as uncommon, yet not a recently made-up name.
I love your idea of "Lleh". With the double 'L', you can tell people it's Welsh.
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Christine 12-13-2006 @ 2:19PM
19th Century??
Is there another Michael Landon? 1900s-- but 20th Century.
We are in the 21st... Time flies.
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Ms Sisyphus 12-13-2006 @ 2:41PM
I think he was referring to the role of Charles Ingalls, Christine. Who was, in fact, a 19C father.
Lleh cracked me up too.
I'd suggest Regan, Christina, but apparently it's en vogue right now. And Goneril would just be cruel.
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Christine 12-13-2006 @ 3:39PM
OH!! HAHAHA. Ok I need to work harder on some of these things. LOL.
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sarah 12-13-2006 @ 6:19PM
"maybe I'll name my next daughter Lleh"
LOL! now would you pronounce that "lay," or "yay?"
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Kelly 12-13-2006 @ 6:48PM
I'm so upset- my daughter's name Leah is #69. At least her name wasn't in the 2005 list. she was born 11/05. Wahhh....
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Allison 12-14-2006 @ 11:01AM
Kelly-
Actually Leah has been on the top 100 (according the the social security site) for many years. It has never cracked the top 50 though.
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Pat 12-17-2006 @ 7:04AM
Try incorporating the mother's maiden name for the baby. I'm doing our family tree. The women lose out because it is difficult tracing the maiden names lost when married. Also it is wonderful to find names used in honor of older family figures. Gives a feeling of love and a strong link to the past. One name in our family was used for the eldest son from 1709 through the 1930s. Remembering the grandmothers by giving their names as first, second or even third gives their history to the baby and affords him/her a sense of self.
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JF Cooper 12-17-2006 @ 10:11AM
What ever happened to Chingichgook? That was a neat name.
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Jennifer Randles 12-17-2006 @ 7:58AM
Mother's Maiden name? Don't know how "Cox" would fit in - got married to get rid of it! Or my grandmother's name of " Nina Melvina"?
Sorry - loved her to death, but wouldn't saddle a little girl that one.
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Lisa 12-17-2006 @ 9:13AM
Well, I like odd names. Would never saddle my kid with a family name...that is totally undoable here. I did takes off, hubby Jim, therefore, son Jamison. Another son, Ian. Twins, Bliss and Blythe. No more pregnancies for me. However, to each his own.
Lisa
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Margaret 12-17-2006 @ 9:21AM
didn't anyone get it, theLleh was backward for hell.
I don't think anyone would name their child that. It was a joke. get it?
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Margaret 12-17-2006 @ 9:22AM
My grandchildren have good names. Jordan, Christian,
Grace, Kykie and Blaze.
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mr camp 12-17-2006 @ 9:36AM
The two best names are still Sam & Susan.
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Jessica 12-17-2006 @ 12:24PM
I am glad my daughter name is not on there. My husband and I (Brian and Jessica)who each always had 6 other kids in our class planned it that way!
However, we were liking Olivia for our new little bean. Guess we will have to make that her middle name!
Jessia
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Wayne Paul 12-17-2006 @ 9:46AM
Margaret--Maggie~ We all DID get it. THAT'S what makes the suggestion to name one's child Lleh humorous. It's a joke.
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