This is a kind of cool site maintained by the Office of the Chief Actuary of the U.S. Social Security Administration. Go HERE and find the most popular names given to babies in the U.S. as actually registered with the SSA. You can also go back to any year (as far back as 1880) and see what the popular names were that year. In 1880, the top names were John and Mary -- neither of which made the Top 10 for the most recently ended year, 2006. You can also enter a name and see how popular it has been over time. My name (Daniel) was the 6th most popular name for males last year; but was only 17th in the year I was born (1962). How 'bout you?
ht: thisistrue.com
3 comments:
Hmm... I didn't realize my name was that popular. It's been number 2 since 1999, but before that, it was number 1 for the past 50 years (except for 1960 for some reason). The Archangel who waged war on Satan just sounds cool to people, I guess.
I don't meet too many people with my name so I was surprised to see it as the #9 name for the year I was born. I can't figure why. Was there a TV show or something? Not everyone could have been born to George Jones and Tammy Wynette fans as I was!
Wow, and I didn't think I had any popular people reading my blog! :)
George Jones had cool glasses - if I remember correctly. :)
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