Get Your Baby Name

Posted by Adia Juana on June 2nd, 2021

Lists of baby names are always fun to look at, whether you're seeking a name for your soon-to-be-born baby boy orbaby girl, wondering about the popularity รับตั้งชื่อลูก of your family first name, or just curious about what baby names are currently hot. What I find particularly interesting is tracking the popularity of baby names over the decades. In looking through U.S. government baby name lists from 1880 to the present, some amusing patterns emerge, particularly in regards to baby names for girls.

More recently there's been a lot of renewed interest in more "old-fashioned" baby names like Hannah, Abigail and Ethan, plus many Biblical names such as Sarah, Rachel, Joshua, Jacob, and Samuel. There's also been a increase in nontraditional baby names including Madison, Ashley and Brianna for baby girls, and Brandon and Logan for baby boys. It's interesting to consider the whys and wherefores of such developments. Sometimes, I suspect, the popularity of a specific professional or fictional character might result in many babies with a particular name. For example, were some of the Lauras born in the 1970s and 1980s given a name suggested by older friends and family who have been growing up watching "Little House on the Prairie ?" Were some attributable to the super popular Laura of "General Hospital" fame?

Today Madison is a very highly ranked baby name for women (ranking number 3 in 2003) but, when the film "Splash" came out in 1984, Tom Hanks' character told Daryl Hannah's character that Madison was not a bona fide first name. While baby girls' names seem quite be subject to the whims of fashion and the top ten lists can adjust radically over time, I've pointed out that, in general, the top baby names for boys remain far more stable. Names like John, William and James are perennials, perhaps because baby boys are often named for their daddies, perpetuating the popularity of
certain baby names from generation to generation. The "Junior" factor aside, baby boys are also less more likely to be given fanciful names.


Robert, on the other hand, has lasted the vicissitudes of baby name popularity. It held a desired spot in the top ten most popular baby names list every year from 1896 to the late 1980s, often peaking at number 1 between the 1920s and the 1950s. It has gradually slipped since the 1990s, but still managed to keep the respectable video slot of number 35 in 2003. When naming child there are, of course, many other areas to consider besides how popular or unique a name is. Here are some helpful tips that you can use with your other children to get them involved in choosing a name for the new baby and to make the process fun:

1. Baby names need to go nicely with the sound of your last name. Also, look for a first name and a middle name that go together well.

2. When your family finds a name you all like, look at the initials to be sure that you don't give the new baby a name with initials that will make people laugh.

3. You and your family might want to pick baby names in honor of favorite loved ones or ancestors, or special names that show your family's ethnic roots. You might even find a
special name from a book or movie that you love.

4. May very well not want a baby name that is so unusual that the other kids will make fun of your little brother or brother as he or she develops.

5. You also might not want child name that is so trendy that it will sound funny by the time the baby is a long time old.

6. You might want to selecting books of baby names and pick one that has a special meaning you want - maybe something that means "sweet" or "kind" or "brave."

7. You probably shouldn't look for a name that's really cute for an adorable little baby but will sound silly when the baby develops.

8. Avoid baby names that might produce insulting nicknames when people shorten them.

9. You and your family might not want a name that is so hard to spell as well as to pronounce that people will always get it wrong and your poor little brother or brother will have to go through life changing people.

10. You might want to think about names that will go nicely with your name and your other brothers' and sisters' names, so that if mom or dad are calling you all for dinner or signing
a birthday card to grandma it won't sound too crazy.

A comparison of the changing fortunes of my own first name, Barbara, with those of my husband's name, Robert, provides a good illustration of the difference in stability between baby girl names and baby boy names over time. My name grew in popularity in the 1930s, '40s and '50s, peaking at the number 2 position in baby name popularity, which it tenaciously held from 1937 to 1944. When i attended grad school, of a class of approximately forty students, there were not less than three middle-agers named Barbara. What exactly is thank the occasional actress Barbara Stanwyck for this? Sadly, my first name later suffered a slow, steady decline and placed at a pitiful number 628 position on the baby names popularity list for the U.S. in 2003.