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HelpRe: SSA list coming out this friday - your predictions
in reply to a message by Lily
As a mother of an Isabel, I cannot WAIT for Isabella to leave. I would never have imagined such a long name would get or stay so popular. I feel like I hear Sophia just as much-but it will be hard to tell-perhaps with combined spelling (Sofia too?) it will trump Isabella.
I definitely think Mason will move up/enter the top 10 with the Kardashian thing, and i just feel like I hear it a lot.
I'd love to see Emma go away-never been a fan of it.
I definitely think Mason will move up/enter the top 10 with the Kardashian thing, and i just feel like I hear it a lot.
I'd love to see Emma go away-never been a fan of it.
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I know how you feel about Isabel/Isabella. I named my daughter Victoria at the very beginning of 1982. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, when I was a child and then a teenager, Victoria was not an overly popular name. It had had a minor vogue in the fifties, but didn't reach higher than 74 in 1952, fell in the early and mid-sixties, and rose somewhat again in the late sixties and early seventies, but didn't reach higher than 68 in 1968, and had fallen again in the late 1970s. I didn't want an overly popular name and was trying to avoid one. Turns out that in 1981, the year during which I was pregnant, Victoria went from 104 in 1980 to 87. I didn't know that, the statistics hadn't even been released yet! Then by the time 1982 was over, it had gone from 87 to 65. How was I to know that at the beginning of 1982? And then it kept rising and rising to finally reach 16 in 1998 and 1999. Humph. It's now fallen again to the low 30s, but could still be termed "popular". I'm curious to see where it is on the new list.
Anyhow, it's half-flattering because I feel that I was a forerunner, but it's also half aggravating because I didn't want a name so popular that it would be number 16. It's also a good example of the curious phenomena that all of a sudden a lot of people at the same time will like a certain name, without knowing that a lot of other people are starting to like it, also. Like my sister hearing the name Heather in 1970, she didn't know anyone named Heather, thought it was pretty and unusual, named her daughter Heather in 1974, and had no idea that thousands of other people were deciding that they liked Heather, too. I don't really understand how and why this happens.
Anyhow, it's half-flattering because I feel that I was a forerunner, but it's also half aggravating because I didn't want a name so popular that it would be number 16. It's also a good example of the curious phenomena that all of a sudden a lot of people at the same time will like a certain name, without knowing that a lot of other people are starting to like it, also. Like my sister hearing the name Heather in 1970, she didn't know anyone named Heather, thought it was pretty and unusual, named her daughter Heather in 1974, and had no idea that thousands of other people were deciding that they liked Heather, too. I don't really understand how and why this happens.
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Victoria is a beautfiul name, I've always liked it.
I wasn't quite as much of a trendsetter as you, when I named my DD Isabel it was not really everywhere, and actually has not really moved too mcuch, but it was not NEARLY as popular as Isabella, and I didn't really pay attention to how quickly Isabella was rising (at the time it was in the 50s maybe?), and NEVER imagined it would do anything but fall since it was a 4 syllable name and I figured all the kids who got named Isabella would be going by Bella anyway (which they often do, but still). Plus I just saw it as a different name from Isabel-so I didn't give it much thought. Since I am a Caroline and had to struggle with being called Carolyn but felt that was such a different name, I as prepared for the problem-Unfortunately, most people see Isabel/Isabella as interchangeable though-ugh. I knew it would be an issue for her (the confusion, correction) but I never imagined Isabella would get so popular that she would ALWAYS be confused with Isabel.
I do agree with you about the flattering aspect at least, for most of the names that have become uber-popular are that way for a reason-pretty, easy to say, a classic style or history to them (though there are always the strange outliers of ugly names whose popularity I can't seem to figure out)!
Plus, I just wasn't as savvy about naming my first child, I compromised on a traditional name I liked, as I had not yet gotten my feel wet in the naming process.Oh well. She can rename herself later but seems happy enough with it. Sad thing is, I almost named her Lorelei which my husband vetoed, and then my sister went on to use it 3 years later, agh.
I wasn't quite as much of a trendsetter as you, when I named my DD Isabel it was not really everywhere, and actually has not really moved too mcuch, but it was not NEARLY as popular as Isabella, and I didn't really pay attention to how quickly Isabella was rising (at the time it was in the 50s maybe?), and NEVER imagined it would do anything but fall since it was a 4 syllable name and I figured all the kids who got named Isabella would be going by Bella anyway (which they often do, but still). Plus I just saw it as a different name from Isabel-so I didn't give it much thought. Since I am a Caroline and had to struggle with being called Carolyn but felt that was such a different name, I as prepared for the problem-Unfortunately, most people see Isabel/Isabella as interchangeable though-ugh. I knew it would be an issue for her (the confusion, correction) but I never imagined Isabella would get so popular that she would ALWAYS be confused with Isabel.
I do agree with you about the flattering aspect at least, for most of the names that have become uber-popular are that way for a reason-pretty, easy to say, a classic style or history to them (though there are always the strange outliers of ugly names whose popularity I can't seem to figure out)!
Plus, I just wasn't as savvy about naming my first child, I compromised on a traditional name I liked, as I had not yet gotten my feel wet in the naming process.Oh well. She can rename herself later but seems happy enough with it. Sad thing is, I almost named her Lorelei which my husband vetoed, and then my sister went on to use it 3 years later, agh.
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