names you should not give your

Names You Should Not Give Your Children

Follow this link to find the most popular names of 2004:

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/

So, if you're expecting out there and wanting to give one of these

cool hip names, don't. Every other kid in your child's class will have

the same name. In other words, it's a fad. And it will seem dated in

the future. **

You can search to see how popular your name has been. For fun, I

mention that my name (not disclosed here) was apparently around 300 on

the list for quite a while until about the year I was born, when it

began its long plunge and then disappeared off the top 1,000 list in

1993.

It's a sad commentary on American culture that everyone sees the same

popular names on TV shows and then just gives them to their kids

without thinking. For example, Kobe appears on the list for the first

time in 1997 at 553 on the list, and went up to about 250. In 2004, it

went back to below 400.

You can see changes in demographics and politics too. 2004 is the

first year that Jesus outranked Jesse. Mohammed has declined sharply

since 2001. George was #8 in 1938 and has declined each year to 148

now. In California, Jose is #4. In New York, it's #60. In Texas, it's

#1. Anyone who wants to know which names to give their children can go

to the West Virginia site and take instruction (or warning). For boys,

the top ten include Logan, Hunter and Tyler. For girls, Madison tops

the list. In Utah, Brooklyn is #8 for girls.

Other news has to do with twin names. Some on this blog may know why

that subject interests me. The top two sets for boy twins are

"Jacob/Joshua" and "Taylor/Tyler." Can you imagine? I mean, to be

mistaken for one's twin would be bad enough, but the constant name

confusion? Of course, in an age of fertility drugs, the % of identical

twins has decreased as a % of all twins. For girls, the idiocy is

topped by "Madison/Morgan" (GIRLS, if you can believe that!). In fact,

with the exception of "Faith" and "Hope" you have to get to #15 on the

list to find a pair of names with different initial letters. Trying to

save on monograms? Jeez! For God's sake, do NOT do that to your kids.

It's not funny. It's not cute. It's a form of child abuse.

**Particularly stay away from "Madison" for a girl, as the name is (1)

a surname, and (2) is an older corruption of "son of Matthew" -- not

appropriate for a girl! Try not to seem ignorant as well as trendy.

Posted by The Law Talking Guy at 3:07 PM

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think that any boy named Logan, Hunter or Tyler should be

banned from donating blood or sperm.

Same goes for any girl named after a state, city or county

except the sperm ban would obviously not apply to them.

My own name is ethnic. It is currently in the top 25 for boys