Fun With Names - The Popular Names in Our Area

People seem to also be more and more curious about names. We're still not telling the names - hell, if anyone wants to tell US the name, I'm all for it. My goal is that we will be heading into the labor and delivery with two names for each sex picked out. Easier said than done.

We definitely are noticing a NOSE DIVE of weddings in our social calendar and an uprise of babies. So far, 2010 is the magical year of babies with 2011 not far behind. So many preggers and hopefully more to come. The way things are going, my guess is that 2011 will easily beat 2010. So far the baby breakdown of 2010 is:

Boys
Felix
Christian
Sawyer
Gavin
Beckett

Girls
Sofia
Natalie
Zoe

(None of those names are on any of our lists, although I'm not oppossed to naming our baby the same name as a friend/co-worker/family member if I really like it.)

Boys have the girls beat in terms of live births, but of the people whom we know are expecting, and who found out what they are having, 3 more girls and one more boy are on the way, with several TBDs.

On February 25, I posted the top 10 boys and girls names of babies born in our hospital. I just checked it again and some have changed so here are the latest:

Girl Names
1. Trinity
2. Ava
3. Sophia
4. Natalie
5. Emma
6. Isabella
7. Olivia
8. Lauren
9. Nevaeh
10. Chloe

Boy Names
1. Nathan
2. Tyler
3. Jordan
4. Dominic
5. Mason
6. Brayden
7. Jayden
8. James
9. Alexander
10. Hunter

None of those are on our Yes or Maybe Lists. However Ava, Isabelle, Olivia and Lauren are all on our NO list so that means they were considered by one of us at some point. Actually I think Isabelle might have been so far as the Yes or Maybe list at some point, but then got canned. None of the boy names are on our NO list for boys either, which means we haven't considered any of those.

What about our fair city? What are the top ten boy and girl names here as of this morning? Here you go...

Girl Names
1. Trinity
2. Ella
3. Mariah
4. Ava
5. Emma
6. Madison
7. Lauren
8. Sophia
9. Leah
10. Natalie

Boy Names
1. Jayden
2. Nathan
3. Jordan
4. Noah
5. James
6. Tyler
7. Grant
8. Matthew
9. Christian
10. Dominic

Not much has changed - at least in terms of cross referencing these lists with our own lists.

What else is on our No list? A lot - I will post it soon enough if I can remember. How did we develop the No list? I trapped my husband in a car and brought out the 40,000 baby name book from the library and started reading aloud. He needed to categorize names into "yes" "maybe" and "no". Of course I only read aloud names I liked so that was how they were cut. To be fair, I told him he could add in any other names he wanted into those categories. It was a good system. So now we are whittling down the "Yes" list for girls down to two names. And maybe dipping into the maybes. ha ha ha. This is why I don't think we are having a girl - we cannot figure out a name to save our life.

We had the boy name pretty well nailed down but then conversations re: names with both of our families over the weekend made me resurrect one name that I love but had dismissed. So now we have two boy names, which is probably good in case the baby looks more like one name or the other. And really, with the way things have been going in this department, things could change AGAIN in the next 8 weeks and 5 days.