Sunday, July 25, 2004

baby name database

the social security administration has a database online of popular baby names.  pretty interesting to look at popularity trends.  not surprisingly jeff, maggie and i found a dramatic dropoff of babies named "adolph" in the 40's and 50's...

most popular names in 2003 - boys
1) jacob
2) michael
3) joshua
4) matthew
5) andrew
6) joseph
7) ethan
8) daniel
9) christopher
10) anthony
 
most popular names in 2003 - girls
1) emily
2) emma
3) madison
4) hannah
5) olivia
6) abigail
7) alexis
8) ashley
9) elizabeth
10) samantha
 
i found the popular girl names surprising (madison?)

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

i'm still in the top 10 woo hoo...
i don't know that joshua will ever follow off the top 10 tho...i guess boots is a better "go by" name...

i wonder if madison has something to do with nyc and 9/11? just a thought

just wanted you to know that i'm checking in.
boots

9:09 PM  

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