I have a hard time believing some of these are the MOST popular in that letter. How is Harper more common than Hailey or Hannah? Kaylee is more popular than Kate, Brooklyn more than Brianna, it's really surprising.
I wonder if all the alternate spellings that burned out teen moms give their kids count toward the usual spelling. Like The People's Popular Front of Judea, this could cause splitting in the ranks.
I think people also forget it is about baby names... They say I dont know anybody by that name and I know tonnes of people by the name ".......". They dont think and realize that the people whose name they know were popular babynames a few decades ago when they were born.
I can see naming her Brooklyn if you're the only one doing it. Wanna be unique, I get it. But everyone else is doing it too! That's the crowd mentality for you.
Just had twin nieces born named Brooklyn and Gracelyn. Using place names for people isn't unusual. I remember past eras of Dakota, Sierra, Cheyenne, Cody, Dallas, Denver, and Paris. I might have to draw the line at some, however. I can't imagine a child named Reykjavik or Honolulu but it wouldn't surprise me to see those on the list, too.
Better than Delilah, IMO. At least Brooklyn can be shortened to Brook(e), which is a fairly common name. But Delilah? Of all the Biblical names to pick from?
And sons, too: Brooklyn Beckham is David & Victoria's son, and he came to some minor fame for dating Chloë Grace Moretz's for a minute a couple of years ago.
haha well done quiz setter for bamboozling the Philistines re the wonderful Natalie Merchant. As aBrit, shame on any American who doesn't know of her....and as for Kennedy? Taylor? Wtf? What horrendous names...
I had a lovely student a few years ago named Kennedy and since then I've always liked the name for a girl. Perhaps people make names beautiful or obnoxious by their own personalities. Yaretzi is really pretty too, and not unusual among Hispanic students, although I've seen Yareli more often.
I can think of two Kennedys: 1) The mononymous Kennedy was an MTV VJ in the 90s for the outstanding and now-defunct "Alternative Nation" hour of – gasp! – actual videos. Now she's a Republican talking head that sometimes pops up on Fox News. She's definitely a social liberal: pro same-sex marriage, etc., but after Kurt Loder turned her on to Ayn Rand, she's now some sort of Objectivistesque libertarian or something. She was always pretty weird. 2) Willow's cradle-robbed girlfriend in Buffy the Vampire Slayer was named Kennedy.
Ximena is a popular name. It was the 126th most popular name from 2014-2018. During that period, there were 12,714 baby girls in the United States who were given the name Ximena. Keep in mind that the size of the Hispanic community in the U.S. is quite large.
One day, people will stop using surnames as first names - I mean, Harper, Riley, Taylor, Kennedy, grrrr. Like there aren't enough name choices that you have to use a surname or, nearly as bad, an object. That said, my biggest gripe is when someone has clearly either seen a name written down and can't pronounce it so a generation of Sians become Sy-anne. Or the other way, hear a name but have no idea how to spell it so just opt for phonetic - Shaun, Jazmin, Neeve etc
I'm not a huge fan of surname names myself, though it is worth mentioning that a lot of names now commonly viewed as first names - Ashley, Cameron, Bradley, etc. - originated as surnames.
Suprised to see my name (Caroline) on the list. I know only three other Carolines: One is 50, one 23, and one 6. I'd say its really scattered and not popular at all, at least in Canada.
Names from 2020 should be part of the quiz title. If you don't know any babies or toddlers, chances of doing well on this quiz are slim - especially because it doesn't allow spelling variations.
I bet now that i posted this comment more than 1% of people will guess it.
I was hoping X would be Xochitl, that's my favorite X name.