Comments on: Do Celebrity Parents Impact Baby Name Statistics?

By: katie

katie — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 02:43:54 +0000

I love the name Bryan. It is a classic irish name that means STRONG. Our baby was named Bryan & we think its great. We don’t know any other baby’s named Bryan, so he is sure to stand out. When his peers say “bryan”, they will certainly think of our little boy.

By: jaQ

jaQ — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 19:53:34 +0000

my kids have five uncle mike’s (two by blood, and three by aunts with a “mike”), as well as a step dad mike. it is just ridiculous, and impossible to just refer to any of them as “mike” or “michael”. it is also my son’s middle name.
growing up (class of 2002), there were 3 jennifers (though they went by jen, jeni, and jennifer, at least) and 2 or 3 jasons, in elementary school. there was another jackie in jr. high, but my mother made up the spelling of my name, and i’ve always HATED that.
my son is the only timmy is his class, and i’m pleased about that. there aren’t too many 2-year-olds named melissa right now, as it was more popular in my generation and before. i want lots of kids, and would never intentionally give them a “popular” name. there were a few girl names i was considering for my son, and i’m so glad he ended up a boy, because they’ve become sooo popular, in the past few years.

By: missy

missy — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 18:59:58 +0000

I think alot of people name their child for whosever popular at that time. I remember when Eminem first came out my friends were starting to have babies and were naming them Marshall and Haillie.
I work in a mall at a children’s store and there’s a lot of kids coming in named Kingston, Violet, Brody, Heidi(after the chick from the Hills), Katy, Harlow, Max, I’ve even heard a couple of Zumas

By: Shannon

Shannon — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 04:59:10 +0000

I don’t know why people love the Harlow name so much, I personally dislike it. Imagine saying “Hello Harlow”

By: jessie

jessie — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:27:40 +0000

i definitely don’t follow trendy celebrity baby names although i do like selma hayak baby’s name. if i have girls they will probably have spanish names, but for boy names i prefer something biblical.

By: Jan

Jan — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:12:00 +0000

I actually did a research project about this very phenomenon. My original hypothesis was that celebrities and fictional characters are very influential on the rising popularity of names, but I actually found in my research that this is not true. Popularity of names is based on collective tastes changing in a gradual manner, and has far more to do with the linguistic qualities of a name. I would recommend the book A Matter of Taste by Stanley Lieberson if you’re interested in a detailed explanation. It’s quite fascinating.

By: Vanessa

Vanessa — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 23:01:32 +0000

The name I am so over is Sienna…everyone seems to be naming their daughter that nowadays. Boring…find something new.

By: Brody's Mamma

Brody's Mamma — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:22:12 +0000

Four years ago I had my first child. I named him Brody Michael. Now the name is becoming popular, because of Brody Jenner from “The Hills” On MTV. At first I was annoyed that it was gaining popularity. Now I have accepted it. I can’t fault another person for liking the same name. I fell in love with it, as did many other parents before me. So here is to all the other little Brody’s in the world. May you be just as beautiful as your name!

By: Ruthella

Ruthella — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:08:23 +0000

I don’t know why, but it seems more appropriate to me to give a girl a unique name… My two sons have quite common names (although neither of them have another boy with the same name in their class) but my daughter has a more unusual name; Lila.

At least, it’s unusual in the UK, not sure about other countries? On the whole, children in the USA seem to have a far wider variety of names than in the UK

By: JM

JM — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:58:55 +0000

I loved growing up as a Joy. Nobody had it. Definately glad my mom didn’t go with my dad’s pick of Nicole (a very pretty name but I knew about 20 of them in highschool lol)!!