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HelpRe: Predictions for SSA list 2017
in reply to a message by Rachel Shaina
I have been looking forward to this occasion since last year's. Very exciting!♡♡♡
Here are my predicts and although I realize that many of them are incredibly predictable, I don't mind. I could have gone deeper and made more name predictions and even less obvious ones but ahh, oh well.
Amelia: Top 10 and replacing Emily
Emily: out of Top 10 (As above)
Evelyn: Top 10's. Maybe. (If not this year than I'm definitely banking on next year)
Oliver: Top 10's. (Almost forgot this one)
Chloe:out of Top 20
Madison: out of Top 20
Sebastian: Top 20
Henry: Top 20
Owen: Top 20
Cole: Top 100
Miles: Top 100
Santiago: Top 100 (personally hope not but seeing how close it is and that it has been increasing...)
Emilia: Top 100
Harrison: Top 100
Bentley: Off top 100
Faith: Off top 100
Kevin: Off top 100
Continue to decrease: Donald,Melvin, Bruce, Stephan/Steven. Landon. Larry. Harper for boys. Landon. Nevaeah. Dana. All the rhyming aidan-Aiden names and some to leave the charts.
Continue to increase: Aurelia. Greta. Julian. Finn. Scarlett. Leo. Nolan. Thea. Alice.
Leaving: Ann. Braeden. Braiden. Jonathon. Madyson. Nancy. Alisha
Top names: Emma & Liam (feel a though that one could go either way though)
Here are my predicts and although I realize that many of them are incredibly predictable, I don't mind. I could have gone deeper and made more name predictions and even less obvious ones but ahh, oh well.
Amelia: Top 10 and replacing Emily
Emily: out of Top 10 (As above)
Evelyn: Top 10's. Maybe. (If not this year than I'm definitely banking on next year)
Oliver: Top 10's. (Almost forgot this one)
Chloe:out of Top 20
Madison: out of Top 20
Sebastian: Top 20
Henry: Top 20
Owen: Top 20
Cole: Top 100
Miles: Top 100
Santiago: Top 100 (personally hope not but seeing how close it is and that it has been increasing...)
Emilia: Top 100
Harrison: Top 100
Bentley: Off top 100
Faith: Off top 100
Kevin: Off top 100
Continue to decrease: Donald,Melvin, Bruce, Stephan/Steven. Landon. Larry. Harper for boys. Landon. Nevaeah. Dana. All the rhyming aidan-Aiden names and some to leave the charts.
Continue to increase: Aurelia. Greta. Julian. Finn. Scarlett. Leo. Nolan. Thea. Alice.
Leaving: Ann. Braeden. Braiden. Jonathon. Madyson. Nancy. Alisha
Top names: Emma & Liam (feel a though that one could go either way though)
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I mean Freya and not Greta
Ugh auto correct! (:
Ugh auto correct! (:
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I don't know if I agree about Madison; I still see it in a lot of birth announcements and I have it projected at #18. I have been seeing less Chloes though; I have it projected at #23.
Disagree with you about:
Bentley -- people love this. Brentley too. [I actually have Bentley projected at #104 but I see it so much in BAs that I think my projection is incorrect]
Cole - maybe but I have it at #108 so this might not be it's year.
Landon -- i see this a lot
Miles -- stays outside the top 100 this year
Braiden - it has another year unfortunately; too bad because this is probably the ugliest spelling. Braeden's gone though.
otherwise I overall agree.
Disagree with you about:
Bentley -- people love this. Brentley too. [I actually have Bentley projected at #104 but I see it so much in BAs that I think my projection is incorrect]
Cole - maybe but I have it at #108 so this might not be it's year.
Landon -- i see this a lot
Miles -- stays outside the top 100 this year
Braiden - it has another year unfortunately; too bad because this is probably the ugliest spelling. Braeden's gone though.
otherwise I overall agree.
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Madison didn't get really popular until the mid-90s. I think I'm younger than you (I think you said you were in your early 30s?) and I don't know any Madisons my age, though I knew of some at my school a few years younger than me. I knew one Chloe, but it didn't get really popular until even later than Madison (early 2000s). [of course location probably plays in-- my area is a lot of conservative namers; I could definitely see the community not touching Madison until it made the top 100].
Also I think sometimes we on the board forget that people who like a name can't always use it as soon as they start liking it (while it's at it's trendiest/most popular). Totally possible that someone fell in love with 'Madison' or 'Chloe' in high school when they first heard it and had to carry it around for 10+ years before they had a child to bestow it on. The board sometimes acts like names trends should be coming and going just like that, but there's a reason that a lot of trends span a decade or more. And then of course there's people who manage to give the name to a child before it gets very popular.
(And some people are born in the wrong decade entirely-- I went to high school with a girl who spoke very passionately about how much she loved the name Jennifer and how she was definitely going to name her daughter that. This was in 2009.)
Also I think sometimes we on the board forget that people who like a name can't always use it as soon as they start liking it (while it's at it's trendiest/most popular). Totally possible that someone fell in love with 'Madison' or 'Chloe' in high school when they first heard it and had to carry it around for 10+ years before they had a child to bestow it on. The board sometimes acts like names trends should be coming and going just like that, but there's a reason that a lot of trends span a decade or more. And then of course there's people who manage to give the name to a child before it gets very popular.
(And some people are born in the wrong decade entirely-- I went to high school with a girl who spoke very passionately about how much she loved the name Jennifer and how she was definitely going to name her daughter that. This was in 2009.)
This message was edited 4/26/2018, 10:21 AM
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I read a name book once whose author attributed the 1970s rise of Jason, Jeremy, and Joshua to the TV show "Here Come the Brides", which aired from 1968 -1970, and which featured characters of those names. The author thought that young girls watching the show at that time stored the names for use when they later became mothers in the 1970s.
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I guess we will just have to wait and see. Braeden is the ugliest spelling IMO so I'll be more thrilled to see that gone but the less of these names, the better. I especially hate Brayden\Braiden\Braden...ick!!
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I like Aurelia - nice.
This message was edited 4/24/2018, 3:34 AM
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Same here (: it also happens to be the middle name of my oldest neice.
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Such a beautiful name!
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Nancy
I’m surprised that Nancy is still on the charts today. It was most popular in the 1930s and 40s, so it’s almost “old” enough for it to experience revival as a “vintage” name.
I’m surprised that Nancy is still on the charts today. It was most popular in the 1930s and 40s, so it’s almost “old” enough for it to experience revival as a “vintage” name.
This message was edited 4/23/2018, 8:57 PM
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I actually think Stranger Things helped a lot of people see the appeal of Nancy in the US. I don't see her going anywhere.
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I love Nancy
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Nancy is currently having a moment in the UK, it seems. I imagine “hip” parents using it here in the US too. I don’t think it will vanish — in fact have expected it to rise.
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I started liking Nancy recently. For me it's mostly because of a friend (in her 60s) who I met last year, but it also seems younger to me than it has in a while.
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Nancy definitely seems “old” to me, but that’s part of the appeal. Society overvalues newness and youth far too much; there’s a lot of good to be found in older, classic, more established things.
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I just meant that meeting a young Nancy feels like more of a possibility than it has in the past, to me.
For example, I also feel like Dorothy seems younger recently, though I don't particularly like it...whereas Mildred, which I do like, doesn't.
I guess I do think it's easier to be fond of names that I imagine on children and elderly ladies than names that sound middle aged to me, though.
I just meant that meeting a young Nancy feels like more of a possibility than it has in the past, to me.
For example, I also feel like Dorothy seems younger recently, though I don't particularly like it...whereas Mildred, which I do like, doesn't.
I guess I do think it's easier to be fond of names that I imagine on children and elderly ladies than names that sound middle aged to me, though.
This message was edited 4/23/2018, 11:00 PM
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