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Favpack
12-18-2008, 04:02 PM
Aidan and Isabella?

I don't see Goober anywhere on the list:

http://lifestyle.msn.com/your-life/family-parenting/articleab.aspx?cp-documentid=16069975&GT1=32001
rocketgrl94
12-18-2008, 04:03 PM
Aidan and Isabella?

I don't see Goober anywhere on the list:

http://lifestyle.msn.com/your-life/family-parenting/articleab.aspx?cp-documentid=16069975&GT1=32001

is Goober your real name?;)
sorry it didnt make the list
rocketgrl94
12-18-2008, 04:07 PM
mine aint up there:mad:
RedRage00
12-18-2008, 04:08 PM
Those are all white people names.

And people want to say Mexicans are having the most babies. I don't see no Juans or Jose's in there.


:D
ExCOOG88
12-18-2008, 04:08 PM
None of my kid's name made it.
Firebird
12-18-2008, 04:14 PM
Those are all white people names.

And people want to say Mexicans are having the most babies. I don't see no Juans or Jose's in there.


:D

That's not how it works. Those are not the actual most popular names but rather the names that recieved the most "hits" on the baby-naming website. The reason it is all white people names is simple-- no Mexican is neurotic enough to seek advice from teh internets when naming a child.
Favpack
12-18-2008, 04:17 PM
Goober's my nickname. Sad.
okt0ber
12-18-2008, 04:19 PM
They seem pretty normal. I remember a few years ago there were some weird ones on the list. What ever happened to Josh, Justin, James? Now it's all their weird Jayden names and crap.
RocklandDragon
12-18-2008, 04:20 PM
Top Baby Names--2007

http://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/popularnames.cgi

This seems to be a better source... :p

Too bad, it couldn't give me the 2008 list yet.

:(
RedRage00
12-18-2008, 04:20 PM
That's not how it works. Those are not the actual most popular names but rather the names that recieved the most "hits" on the baby-naming website. The reason it is all white people names is simple-- no Mexican is neurotic enough to seek advice from teh internets when naming a child.

lmao. Ok, I get it. I didn't know thats how it worked. I thought they kept track through birth records or something.
RedRage00
12-18-2008, 04:21 PM
They seem pretty normal. I remember a few years ago there were some weird ones on the list. What ever happened to Josh, Justin, James? Now it's all their weird Jayden names and crap.

Those names are boring thats why. My name is pretty boring. :(
Favpack
12-18-2008, 04:21 PM
Those names are boring thats why. My name is pretty boring. :(

Hector?
rocketgrl94
12-18-2008, 04:22 PM
Those names are boring thats why. My name is pretty boring. :(

mine is exotic:D
Favpack
12-18-2008, 04:26 PM
mine is exotic:D

Margarita?
RedRage00
12-18-2008, 04:27 PM
Hector?

Negative.
RedRage00
12-18-2008, 04:27 PM
mine is exotic:D

Shaniqua?
rocketgrl94
12-18-2008, 04:27 PM
Margarita?

uh no.
rocketgrl94
12-18-2008, 04:28 PM
Shaniqua?

Monifa!:D
Favpack
12-18-2008, 04:35 PM
uh no.

Cheyenne?
Dakota?
Paris?

Oh, you said exotic - forget it.
rocketgrl94
12-18-2008, 04:36 PM
Cheyenne?
Dakota?
Paris?

Oh, you said exotic - forget it.

you'll never guess and its not that exotic
CyFallsMom
12-18-2008, 04:36 PM
My son's name is still on the list - has been for a long time. One of my daughter's middle name is on there - but she was named after her great-great grandmother so that's an old one. A lot of these are old, graceful names. Not something off of a wine bottle (I knew someone who was drinking Andre cold duck and decided to name her son D'Andre:D).

Mine and my sister's names went out of popularity in the 60's!
rocketgrl94
12-18-2008, 04:40 PM
mine was popular a few years back a couple years in a row...now there's a whole lot of them....but IM THE ORIGINAL!:D
lonny23
12-18-2008, 05:07 PM
Aidan and Isabella?

I don't see Goober anywhere on the list:

http://lifestyle.msn.com/your-life/family-parenting/articleab.aspx?cp-documentid=16069975&GT1=32001
There are some real clunker names in there, but this list isn't quite as horrible as most years are. Many parents curse their kids for life with horrible names, and I'm not just talking about the Beulah's and Bessie's. Many parents give their kids names that are tied to bad characteristics and traits, but I also surmise that the kids have those names because of the inherent flaws of the parents.
lonny23
12-18-2008, 05:09 PM
That's not how it works. Those are not the actual most popular names but rather the names that recieved the most "hits" on the baby-naming website. The reason it is all white people names is simple-- no Mexican is neurotic enough to seek advice from teh internets when naming a child.
Personally, I think everybody should at a minimum see the meaning of a name before they give it to the kid. Saying that name unleashes things in kids. It's just like a kid will have problems if their parents are always saying, "Hey :Censor:head come here!"
lonny23
12-18-2008, 05:15 PM
They seem pretty normal. I remember a few years ago there were some weird ones on the list. What ever happened to Josh, Justin, James? Now it's all their weird Jayden names and crap.
That yuppie crap is all the rage and I hate it. I have a bunch of rules for naming kids, and one of the one's at the top is to not name them after cities and states. Parents think they're cool, but the names stink. I wouldn't name a kid "Austin" or "Madison" if you were going to shoot me. I don't go for "Apple" either. I sure wouldn't name a kid Jayden and I hate all the goofy spellings of a normal phonetic word. It's not cool or catchy. It's stupid. I gave my kids normal names that meant good qualities and I also gave them names where they don't have a bunch of kids with the same name. Besides, my oldest daughter gets to see her name a lot this time of the year!:D I looked on the internet and I looked in a book with 20K names and I wrote my list down and all I had to do was plug and play names from there. I also made sure the middle name flowed with the first name.
lonny23
12-18-2008, 05:16 PM
Cheyenne?
Dakota?
Paris?

Oh, you said exotic - forget it.
That's 3 more I'd never use. I hate Dakota as a name.
lonny23
12-18-2008, 05:17 PM
mine was popular a few years back a couple years in a row...now there's a whole lot of them....but IM THE ORIGINAL!:D
I hate how one person uses a name and everybody else wants to join in!:mad:
dragonsdaddy
12-18-2008, 05:18 PM
the names of our grand and great grand parents will be on there soon. lorene, avyce, gladys, florene, eva, olga, etc.
Pinion
12-18-2008, 06:07 PM
My sons name is on the top 50 list. My daughters isnt on any of them.
SLC
12-18-2008, 06:14 PM
Tori and Taryn.:cool:
CoveMom
12-18-2008, 07:42 PM
I guess some people still watch commercials:


17. Peyton


:D
CoveMom
12-18-2008, 07:43 PM
None of our names are on the list. Not mine, The Husband's, Both Sons, My Mother, My Father, My Sister, 2 Brothers....I could go on.

:(
dragons08
12-18-2008, 07:48 PM
None of our names are on the list. Not mine, The Husband's, Both Sons, My Mother, My Father, My Sister, 2 Brothers....I could go on.

:(

You must be weird.
dragons08
12-18-2008, 07:50 PM
you'll never guess and its not that exotic

Can it shanaynaye.
CKE
12-18-2008, 10:31 PM
Both of my boys names are on that list
RedRage00
12-19-2008, 08:02 AM
You must be weird.

She is.
ExCOOG88
12-19-2008, 10:27 AM
I hate how one person uses a name and everybody else wants to join in!:mad:

No :Censor:!!! The idiots across the street named their son the same as mine. Pissed me off. It wouldn't have been that bad if they were years apart but 8 months. :Censor:ing losers!

Sorry had to vent, that is a sore spot with me.
Firebird
12-19-2008, 10:31 AM
Personally, I think everybody should at a minimum see the meaning of a name before they give it to the kid. Saying that name unleashes things in kids. It's just like a kid will have problems if their parents are always saying, "Hey :Censor:head come here!"

I always need to ask the internet before I choose which Christian saint to name my child after....;):rolleyes:

Seriously, the baby names have gotten absurd. It's time to go back to using the church calender to choose the baby name.
ExCOOG88
12-19-2008, 10:57 AM
I always need to ask the internet before I choose which Christian saint to name my child after....;):rolleyes:

Seriously, the baby names have gotten absurd. It's time to go back to using the church calender to choose the baby name.

You ought to work as a teacher and some of the names I come across. You want to go :Censor: slap some of these mothers.
RedRage00
12-19-2008, 10:58 AM
No :Censor:!!! The idiots across the street named their son the same as mine. Pissed me off. It wouldn't have been that bad if they were years apart but 8 months. :Censor:ing losers!

Sorry had to vent, that is a sore spot with me.

So what was the name?! :D
ExCOOG88
12-19-2008, 11:08 AM
So what was the name?! :D

I call their son little f:Censor:er, refuse to call him my sons name.
SLC
12-19-2008, 11:15 AM
I call their son little f:Censor:er, refuse to call him my sons name.


:eek::eek:

Lmao.
ktchamp97
12-19-2008, 11:18 AM
Our son (now 4 months old) was named Caleb, for his and Joshua's (my name) story in the Bible. Had no idea it was such a popular name this year.
J-Rock Mom
12-19-2008, 01:28 PM
My oldest name is there Andrew, my middle son is not Jonathan, and my daughter's name isn't either Cheyenne.