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Help! My Favorite Baby Name is Getting Popular!

by The Name Lady, Posted Oct 14th 2010 11:00AM

My husband and I have been holding onto the name Archer for a few years now, so no discussion was needed when we found out we were having a boy -- we could use our favorite name. However, on the NameVoyager and elsewhere, it seems like Archer is ...Don't overreact -- if you confuse a run up the charts with true popularity, you might just talk yourself out of the perfect name.
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How Can I Avoid Giving My Baby a Name That Will Get Too Trendy?

by The Name Lady, Posted Oct 25th 2009 8:00PM

Dear Name Lady: We have a very common last name, so we don't want to choose a name for our baby girl that is too common. We've ruled out the current top 25 names. But there are a lot of names that we like (e.g., Annabelle and Eva) that are in the ...
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Jacob and Emma Deja Vu?

by The Name Lady, Posted Aug 27th 2009 10:58AM

Are you hearing this morning that Emma and Jacob are now the top baby names in America? Do you get the funny feeling you've heard that somewhere before? It's not your imagination. The Social Security Administration announced the most popular names of ...
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Your 'Uncommon' Baby Name Is Everywhere

by The Name Lady, Posted Aug 3rd 2009 10:00AM

A number of friends have told me that they've selected "uncommon" and/or "old -fashioned" names for their babies -- and then they proceed to say that the baby will be called Ava, Olivia, Isabella, Aiden, etc. They are all perfectly good choices, and ...
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The Fastest Rising Baby Names of the Year

by The Name Lady, Posted May 11th 2009 10:00AM

The new national baby name rankings were revealed on Friday, with Jacob remaining #1 for boys and Emma taking over the top spot for girls. But if you really want to know what's going on with American names, you have to look past the top 10 to the ...
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Avoiding Trendy Baby Names

by The Name Lady, Posted Mar 2nd 2009 10:00AM

We're in the process of naming our second boy, and we don't want to end up with a name that will be at the top of the charts in ten years. How can we predict if we're picking the next Aiden or Liam? - Not one of the crowd When it comes to ...
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Popular name game

by Jennifer Jordan, Posted Mar 19th 2008 11:47AM

Beloved Internet site PopSugar has rolled out a new online "game" of sorts--what is the most popular name? The latest contest is boy's names, and the two top names battling it out are Gabriel and Lucas. Normally I would not play these online games ...
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Assessing the popularity of baby names

by Angie Felton, Posted Nov 5th 2007 10:30AM

A baby name book is good resource tool when searching for the perfect name for an upcoming baby, but there's something important it can't do: let you know how popular a name is right now. I learned this the hard way with my first son, who is one of ...
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