Addictive Baby Names Site

5 comments to Addictive Baby Names Site

• Dawn

  03/21/2008 at 7:05 am

  Is is sort of snotty and elitist of me to feel smug that my child’s name is not on the list at all, much less in the top 1000 of the past five years? Sometimes I think if I meet another baby “Sophia” I will shake her parents. Why do people think they are being creative when in fact they are following fads?

• Emeth Hesed

  03/21/2008 at 8:55 am

  Nope, it’s not snobby or elitist … ’cause that would mean I am! LOL. My baby’s names aren’t on there either, first or middle. I wouldn’t want to name any of my kids names in the top 1000 names.

  Naming kids common names isn’t so bad but I really don’t like it when people just name their kids without much thought. Or when parents name their kids names that cause them grief because of gender confusion.

• Jessica

  03/21/2008 at 10:49 am

  Guilty.

• Cousin Davy

  03/24/2008 at 6:32 am

  What’s really neat about that site is when you plug in Biblical names–I only did the boys (for some weird reason…) but there is a giant upswing on most of them beginning in the 1970s-ish. Kinda cool.

• dawn

  03/25/2008 at 9:05 am

  Oh gosh, yes, the gender-neutral names. Ugh. Although I suppose we could be guilty in a way. There are a lot of girl Taryns out there.

  There’s “common” names, which are fine and then there are “trendy” names, which I despise. The ones that sound like the parents got them off a soap opera, kwim?