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Re: SSA list coming out this friday - your predictions
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I said Sophia and Isabella might switch because, yes, there is a big gap, BUT Sophia went up by so many more babies (+3,600 more Sophias in 2010 than in 2009) that if it does it again, it would overtake Isabella.Isabella had 22,731 and was +509
Sophia had 20,477 and was +3608 (it went up by 21%, which is pretty significant-- Zoe had a similar percentage and it went up like 50 places)And if that were to repeat (not that it will), there'd be like 23,200 Isabellas and 24,000 Sophias. I think some people might be scared of Isabella now because of Twilight (like they like the name but are afraid people will think she's named after the book):S The number of Zooeys doubled from 2009 to 2010, so yeah, it could make the top 1000.
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+for interestI did what I did with Sophia and Isabella for the top 50 or so names to come up with a new top 25 (if I didn't have work early tomorrow morning, I'd have done more). I *don't* think this is what the list will actually look like, though-- the change, especially in the boys, is too significant to be one year. But it is interesting nonetheless.The original rank is in parenthesis1. Jacob (1)
2. Mason (12)
3. Jayden (4)
4. Ethan (2)
5. William (5)
6. Michael (2)
7. Noah (7)
8. Alexander (6)
9. Aiden (9)
10. Elijah (18)
11. Anthony (10)
12. Daniel (8)
13. Logan (17)
14. Andrew (14)
15. James (19)
16. Liam (30)
17. Joshua (11)
18. David (15)
19. Gabriel (21)
20. Joseph (20)
21. Matthew (16)
22. Christopher (13)
23. Benjamin (22)
24. Samuel (24)
25. Jackson (25)
1. Sophia (2)
2. Isabella (1)
3. Emma (3)
4. Olivia (4)
5. Ava (5)
6. Abigail (7)
7. Emily (6)
8. Chloe (9)
9. Madison (8)
10. Ella (13)
11. Addison (11)

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Oh ok. It is number one anyway because when you combine Sophia and Sofia it's way more common than Isabella. I wish people who used Zooey would at least pronounce it ZOO-ee so it would make sense and be a different name not just a misspelling.
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