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Subject: Top baby names of the nineties
Written By: youngerderek on 04/12/11 at 10:31 am
This is pretty interesting.
Boys # of births
1 Michael 462,180
2 Christopher 360,115
3 Matthew 351,530
4 Joshua 329,012
5 Jacob 298,098
6 Nicholas 275,245
7 Andrew 272,671
8 Daniel 271,885
9 Tyler 262,240
10 Joseph 260,444
Girls
1 Jessica 302,994
2 Ashley 301,741
3 Emily 237,173
4 Sarah 224,063
5 Samantha 223,948
6 Amanda 190,942
7 Brittany 190,798
8 Elizabeth 172,460
9 Taylor 168,995
10 Megan 160,330
Subject: Re: Top baby names of the nineties
Written By: youngerderek on 04/12/11 at 10:33 am
If you look at the name charts on babynameshub.com, you will notice MANY names that are common among teens and young adults peaked in popularity in or around the year 1988, which I find interesting. 1988 represented a shift in naming trends, as did 2005 when the 'trendy' names and Emily/Emma started to decline in popularity rather than continue to rise.
Subject: Re: Top baby names of the nineties
Written By: Mat1991 on 04/12/11 at 8:19 pm
I've always found it interesting how popular boys' names tend to stay pretty much the same over the decades while popular girls' names change more often. I guess parents are more traditional namers when it comes to masculine names.
Subject: Re: Top baby names of the nineties
Written By: youngerderek on 04/13/11 at 5:26 am
I've always found it interesting how popular boys' names tend to stay pretty much the same over the decades while popular girls' names change more often. I guess parents are more traditional namers when it comes to masculine names.
What is interesting though, is that boy's names change more it seems geographically. For instance - even in far-flung places like New Zealand, people name their daughters Emma, Ava etc, now, and named them Ashley and Jessica back around 1990, but boys' names even today vary geographically a lot.