BabyZone's top 100 names for 2006

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BabyZone's top 100 names for 2006
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Fri, 12-29-2006 - 1:21pm

http://www.babyzone.com/pregnancy/babynames/a2308

BabyZone has released their top 100 names of 2006. Not the same as the SSA rankings, but their list is composed of the names most popular with their members (so kind of a look at how many people online might be using or considering the name).

I haven't gotten a chance to browse the entire list, but I thought it was interesting that Grace was the most popular girl name (not just a filler mn after all ... a warning to all those who thought it was more unique as a fn I suppose LOL).

Enjoy!

~Kelli


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Wed, 01-03-2007 - 12:35pm

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Wed, 01-03-2007 - 12:40pm

I think Baby Center's will be much closer to the SSA List than the Baby Zone one.

I wonder if they mixed in what people were using for middle names to come up with Grace as #1 - it's way down on Baby Center. also, Marie was very high on the Baby Zone list, people are not using Marie as a first name for baby girls regularly enough for it to be high like that, I think it came from middle name usage as well

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Wed, 01-03-2007 - 6:21pm

I've only had the chance to glance at either list, but I think I remember Baby Zone's saying something about taking into account both actual usage by Baby Zone members (probably through a poll) and how often each name was specifically searched for (larger number of times searched for indicating higher interest in that particular name).

You're right about Baby Center's list being a closer predicter of the SSA's. Theirs is actually a wonderful resource because it combines different spellings of the same name, so for those with many variants or common misspellings -- think Aidan, Aiden, Aydan, Ayden, Aydyn, Aidyn, etc. LOL -- it offers a more realistic look at the name's usage as a whole.

~Kelli


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