This is Alpha, the first-born, when he was 2YO.
This is Beta, the second-born, when he was about 2YO.
This is Gamma, the third-born, when he was about 18MO.
Baby Names 2011
May
14
2012
Subtitle: in which I improve the government’s records
Allow me to introduce to you the 2011 SFS Baby Name List. Some of you may recall that I like to take the Social Security baby name list and reorganize it so that a name is counted only once even if it is spelled different ways. It is that time again, this time it’s the names from 2011.
For yet another year, Jacob is NOT the most popular boy’s name in the US – Aiden is. Rather, the name that is pronounced the same as Aiden is the most popular boy’s name in 2011.
Some Stats
- The top 4 names for the boys are the same as 2010 (the government got the top two names wrong).
- The top 3 names for the girls are the same as 2010 (the government got the top two names right).
- William went up in popularity, as I predicted last year.
- Same thing with Catherine/Katherine. More people spell it with a ‘K’, but the Duchess of Cambridge spells hers with a ‘C’. Both variations increased by about the same amount.
- William is the highest-ranked boy’s name that has no spelling variations.
- Girl names still have more spelling variations than boy names (319/1000 vs. 229/1000 alternates)
- The boys still have the name with the highest number of alternate spellings (Jayden/Aiden with 9 vs. Hailey/Carly with 8)
- The girls had more new variations added this year. For example: Braelyn/Braelynn, Samiya/Samiyah, and Sloan/Sloane for the girls. Also for example: Bentlee was new, as was Johan/Johann for the boys.
2011 Improved Baby Name List
Click on the link above and peruse to your heart’s content!
He brought his household near man by man; and Achan, son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, from the tribe of Judah, was taken.
Joshua 7:18
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