Looking forward to hearing your musings and seeing the update of the NameVoyager. :)

It would be totally tight if you could have a NameVoyager for each year between 1990 and 2004.

Wow, that is one redundant and boring list. Way to go, America! I'm surprised to see Ashley and Samantha, though. I thought for sure those were dying out.

I second Paul's motion. I know your interests are in long-term trends, but I love the Name Voyager, and the more data it contains, the better it will be. It would certainly be the best way to track the meteoric rise of some of today's trendy names. I look forward to your comments, Laura.

I third Paul's comment. I would love to see all 15 recent years posted. The changes just from year to year are pretty incredible.I would also like to offer you some data. The list has been out for 3 days, and I got bored and combined spellings for an entirely different list. I thought you might like it. Here's the modified top 20:1 1.986% 33754 Joseph 2 1.785% 30346 Michael 3 1.724% 29302 Jacob 4 1.556% 26458 John 5 1.473% 25035 Anthony 6 1.456% 24744 Matthew 7 1.417% 24083 Joshua 8 1.362% 23153 Nicholas 9 1.347% 22897 Alexander 10 1.302% 22138 Ethan 11 1.266% 21525 Aidan 12 1.258% 21386 Andrew 13 1.216% 20678 Christopher 14 1.213% 20628 Daniel 15 1.170% 19890 William 16 1.134% 19269 Ryan 17 1.060% 18015 Luke 18 1.060% 18014 David 19 1.036% 17605 Jonathan 20 1.013% 17214 Tyler 1 2.020% 28008 Emily 2 1.670% 23159 Isabella 3 1.628% 22584 Madison 4 1.537% 21316 Emma 5 1.415% 19617 Kaitlyn 6 1.374% 19057 Hailey 7 1.282% 17782 Sarah 8 1.262% 17495 Sophia 9 1.236% 17135 Hannah 10 1.229% 17047 Olivia 11 1.202% 16665 Brianna 12 1.198% 16613 Abigail 13 1.179% 16352 Ashley 14 1.167% 16181 Jasmine 15 1.136% 15750 Grace 16 1.034% 14333 Alyssa 17 1.009% 13999 Elizabeth 18 1.009% 13988 Alexis 19 0.999% 13849 Anna 20 0.979% 13580 Samantha

Ah, such obsessive name tabulations warm my heart! I'm very curious how you defined spellings. Are Lucas and Luca "spellings" of Luke? Are the numbers for Jake allotted to Jacob? (Jake was originally a form of Jack, descended from John...) I've torn my hair out in the past over such questions -- check out the 2/18/05 post.To all who've asked, I do plan to add more data to the NameVoyager. The trick will be keeping the download manageable and performance smooth...year-by-year figures add up to a LOT of data!

I combined names that are presumably pronounced the same: Aidan/Ayden/Aden.I also considered names that differed by 1 sound as the same: Isabelle/Isobel/Isabel/Isabella.I also considered Spanish and English names as equivalent: Miguel and Michael, Jose and Joseph (and Yosef), John and Johan and Juan.Names that have a longer form, such as Zachary vs Zachariah or Julie/a, Juliette, Julianne/a were kept separate.In the case of Luke, I counted Luke, Luca, Lucas as all the same, since it is very probable that they will go by Luke anyway. You can't say that about Jonathan, for example.If you'd like, I'll send you the whole spreadsheet.

It's not "very probable" that a Lucas would go by Luke. It's not even probable. Heck, it's not even likely. The name Lucas is short enough that most people would not nickname it. More important, that little -as would mean a lot to a kid for whom it's the only distinguishing mark between him and a scattering of Lukes in his grade.

It's so satisfying that the new Social Security list shows that the BabyCenter.com one is indeed wrong. I was so peeved by their confident statement that the name Emily had finally been unseated by the name Emma as the most popular girl name in the United States. "In the United States" my butt! They mean "among people who responded to our survey."

I think maybe names like Aiden and Ayden could be combined, but not Michael and Miguel. Those are very different names to me, as are Jose and Joseph. Completely different feeling to them. I'm a Dutch-ancestory U.S. Caucasian, and I'm imagining the different family reactions I'd get if I named my son Michael versus if I named him Miguel.I wouldn't even combine different-ending names like Isabel and Isabella: those, too, seem like different names to me. BUT--I agree with Laura that it's fun and exciting to encounter other people so interested in names that they'd do all that hard work. Just because I wouldn't have done it the same way doesn't mean I didn't enjoy seeing it and hearing the way names were combined.

Speaking of forgetting to correctly explain something, I forgot to say (in my "anonymous 8:31" post) that of course it was Laura who pointed out that BabyCenter's sample size was skewed: until I read her blog on it, I hadn't realized (since they don't say so).

Lillie, take a chill pill. Geez. As I posted above, if the name differed by 1 sound, I listed it as the same name. Luca and Luke differ by 1 sound. So do Luca and Lucas. Thus they are listed together. I didn't do this to find the specific order. I did it to see the overall trend. If I had the time, I'd do it again and list all the -lyn names together and all the -bel/-belle/-bella namesand all the -son or -cyn/cynne or -lee/-leigh/-lie names.For this list, I removed the Hispanic/French/German variants to their own listings. It didn't make a lot of difference, as the same names are pretty much in the top 20. 1 1.699% 28881 Jacob 27,4802 1.523% 25888 Michael 25,0033 1.417% 24083 Joshua 23,7784 1.384% 23531 Matthew 22,4585 1.362% 23153 Nicholas 18,2266 1.302% 22138 Ethan 21,9427 1.281% 21780 Joseph 19,6958 1.266% 21525 Aidan 9,7089 1.258% 21386 Andrew 21,38610 1.216% 20678 Christopher 19,40011 1.213% 20628 Daniel 20,62812 1.192% 20269 Anthony 19,28013 1.170% 19890 William 19,89014 1.134% 19269 Ryan 19,26915 1.085% 18437 John 16,13316 1.073% 18246 Alexander 17,63417 1.060% 18014 David 18,01418 1.036% 17605 Jonathan 14,09619 1.013% 17214 Tyler 17,21420 1.007% 17113 Dylan 14,671It is interesting how the names jump around when you account for spellings. In the original list, Aidan was nowhere near the top. James and Nathan drop off the list, while Christopher, Kristopher, Cristopher etc rises.

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The name Trinidee is not common. That is my grandaughters name and it would be nice if it can be put out there then others may like the name and start using it. How else can I get the name out there. We would have spelled it Trinity but we chose the other.

I like that my kids' names are not popular. Vladimir hasn't hit the top 1000 in the US, ever. Lucretia has made the top 1000, but never the top 100. Of course, Vlad is a popular name in Slavic countries, and Lucy is fairly common in the UK. Still, that's over there. Here, I can be fairly certain that they won't share a name with half their class, and I like that. If by some bizarre happening, either of their names did get extremely popular, I'd be upset. I want my kids to be unique, but still have a real name with history. Oh, and Vladimir's English equivilent is Walter. There is a HUGE difference between a Vlad and a Walt, so you can't really lump ethnic names in with their English equivilents.

I note that the only really "left-field" name out of the two top tens is still "Madison." Honestly, can we find these people and get them to stop naming their daughters after a joke in a Tom Hanks movie?

What's the joke in a Tom Hanks movie...just curious. I too wish people would stop using Madison...I'm SO tired of it!!!

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I would be interested to know what are the most popular names in different major cities. Too bad we can't get any definite answers on that. I live in Chicago and it seems everyone is naming their girl either Sophia, Sophie, Grace or Eleanor (Ella). Madeline is also becoming popular. For boys it's been: Tyler, Aiden, Colin. It would be interesting to me to create a string on this subject.

I would be interested to know what are the most popular names in different major cities. Too bad we can't get any definite answers on that. I live in Chicago and it seems everyone is naming their girl either Sophia, Sophie, Grace or Eleanor (Ella). Madeline is also becoming popular. For boys it's been: Tyler, Aiden, Colin. It would be interesting to me to create a string on this subject.

I would be interested to know what are the most popular names in different major cities. Too bad we can't get any definite answers on that. I live in Chicago and it seems everyone is naming their girl either Sophia, Sophie, Grace or Eleanor (Ella). Madeline is also becoming popular. For boys it's been: Tyler, Aiden, Colin. It would be interesting to me to create a string on this subject.

I would be interested to know what are the most popular names in different major cities. Too bad we can't get any definite answers on that. I live in Chicago and it seems everyone is naming their girl either Sophia, Sophie, Grace or Eleanor (Ella). Madeline is also becoming popular. For boys it's been: Tyler, Aiden, Colin. I would enjoy hearing other people's thoughts on this subject.

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Rumtum77 -In the movie Splash, the mermaid was going to pick a name for herself and she picked Madison off of a Madison Ave. sign. The Tom Hanks character said Madison is not a name! For some unknown reason, after that movie came out, Madison started to get used on girls.

Yippee! We purposely named our son Jacob so he would never have to spell it for anyone and because we are nauseated by today's trendy freaky spellings of made-up names. Jacob means something, it's biblical and that rocks!

There's a reason why Vladimir and Lucretia aren't popular. Vladimir sounds like a vampire's name and Lucretia sounds like secretion. The hard thing is to find unpopular names that are actually nice names. I find that looking at lists of medieval names from various countries can often yield pleasing finds.

is leon a "black" name or a "white" name???

Leon is an English name