SSA Releases Top Baby Names of 2014

Did you make the list?

Huh... I actually don't mind most of those names, which suprises me. No, no I did not.

Why no love for John. :(

What a surprise, generic names are really popular.

I see my middle name made the list. How cool is that.

@johnd13: Funny, when I was in high school, there were like a million John's and Juan's running around.

John I think became too much of an old-fashioned name. :P I think it was definitely more popular before 1970's or '80's, maybe, somewhere around there.

My name (Jessie) didn't make the list either. But I actually find that a good thing, names making the top ten on a list makes the names seem too generic and too overly used and popular to me. I'm glad my name is at least a little more unique, currently.

bwa ha, Jess is generic. =P

Nope, didn't make the list.

my name has never made the list, the closest less ethnicized version of my name, which is the exact same spelling except it ends with an -e instead of an -o, bares the following traits...

the name has only made the SSA top 1000 list 30 times since 1900 and the last time it did was in 1970, at its peak it there were only 96 births with that name that year

No Vincent? =(

Nope

Apparently it's the first time Charlotte has been in the top ten for girls.

Whoa now that's very interesting, I noticed that in 9th place for boy and girl names are James, and then Madison. Put those together and you have both the first and last name of the 4th President of the United States. James Madison. Cool.

Maybe there's something about this year the ghost of James Madison really likes.

I like some of those names, my name David is pretty generic and fairly common. Among my family there are three people who share my name either as a first name or middle.

I'm pretty sure Muhammad or something is the top baby name.

I bet the 2016 list will be full of names from "Star Wars, Episode 7".

There is a lack of Bran.

My name is Devin, the 151st most common name in this decade. It was most popular in the 1990s, ranked 72nd most popular name, which is cool since I was born in the 90s. :D

Source: https://birthdayalarm.com/name/devin/

No Erfan? Fine just fine, I'll remember this. :P

On second thoughts, I could consider Ethan a western version of Erfan.

Huh. I'm shocked.

Noah, seriously?

Seriously? Noah?

I mean OK but really? Noah?

I mean I know it's like... But... Noah... Shocked.

I like Alexander the best, my kid if it's a boy will be named that.

My name isn't in there, then again, I have a Dutch name :-)

My Portuguese name is not featured on the top 10 American names? I'm outraged!

I don't really mind any of the names on the list though...could have been much, much worse.

@BranKetra: I didn't see Raisin either.

nothing like your kid being one of 50 "Noah"s in their 1st grade class.

Brian....nope.

Every time someone brings up the topic of baby names I remember an article posted here a few years ago and I go look for it, thinking that my chances of finding it are minimal. Yet I always end up finding it, and easily too:

American Baby Names Are Somehow Getting Even Worse

My guts tell me this is right up your alley

jfc.. half of those look like bad start-up company names..

@Allicrombie said:

Did you make the list?

As far as I know I've never met anyone named Noah, Mason, Ethan, Sophia, Isabella, Mia or Abigail.

Too generic.

Do not ignore it.

lol

Really diggin' some of those girl names. All boys names seem quite off (maybe Ethan, but no dice).

well , at least my name is there ..... Daniel , though the spell is different but still the same

@BranKetra said:

@whipassmt said:

@BranKetra: I didn't see Raisin either.

Do not ignore it.

Had to do it, had to do it. Sometimes when you see the opportunity for a joke.... you just got to take it.

I shall remember that it was the name of my KOTOR character.

I didn't expect Noah to be number one for boys.

lol generic ass names

I guess it fits with the bullshit rhetoric of impending Armageddon currently popular among certain American demographics.

@GazaAli: Isn't there always an impending Armageddon according to some?

True, but this one happens to favor Noah.

@BranKetra: What's KOTOR?

It's not all American's or most Americans that are doing this though. The article itself says that these names are from "preppy white morons", although black people come up with some pretty strange names (such as Orangelo which is derived from a hospital menu item called Orange Jello, and of course there are the regular names with prefixes added like DeShaun KeyShawn, LaMichael). Most of the names in the article are popular with yuppies/preppies, in other words people who got money.

Also to quote the article "Now, you and I both know that Americans of all stripes have grown progressively worse at naming children" - "progressively worse" is a good phrase here, since I bet a lot of people naming their kids the names in that article are people who consider themselves to be "progressives" (in other words they fall for "liberal twaddle")

But your article does remind me of something I read a few years ago where Benedict XVI encouraged parents to carefully consider what they name their children and to give them meaningful, traditional names rather than "trendy" names.

@whipassmt: Knights of the Old Republic. It is a Star Wars game.