{"id":1532,"date":"2009-01-31T01:32:26","date_gmt":"2009-01-31T06:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/womantalk.wordpress.com\/?p=1532"},"modified":"2009-01-31T01:32:26","modified_gmt":"2009-01-31T06:32:26","slug":"most-popular-baby-names-in-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=1532","title":{"rendered":"Most Popular Baby Names in 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chad sent me an email today with a link to a local article about last year&#8217;s most popular baby names. I know most of the names already, of course, since I&#8217;ve been spending lots of time with babies born last year. The whole article can be read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/articles\/names-list-year-2294930-girl-new\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Chad was relieved that the name &#8220;Christian&#8221; wasn&#8217;t on the top ten list. But I did a little more investigating and it turns out that &#8220;Christian&#8221; was #22 in 2007, which is still pretty popular &#8211; right inbetween &#8220;Tyler&#8221; and &#8220;Jonathan,&#8221; or the male equivalent to &#8220;Brianna.&#8221; The name &#8220;Aiden&#8221; was #27. You can see the official social security list <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialsecurity.gov\/cgi-bin\/popularnames.cgi\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Addendum:<\/p>\n<p>Bella saw this post and commented that this year&#8217;s names were not all that populat as far as she could see. I told her to check the year of her birth (1993) and she was amazed. Basically a laundry list of all the girls she knows&#8230;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 242px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"http:\/\/www.socialsecurity.gov\/cgi-bin\/popularnames.cgi\" src=\"http:\/\/i108.photobucket.com\/albums\/n18\/womantalk\/Picture1-7.png\" alt=\"Click on the pic to see all top 25 names at the original SS website.\" width=\"232\" height=\"320\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click on the pic to see all top 25 names at the original SS website.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chad sent me an email today with a link to a local article about last year&#8217;s most popular baby names. I know most of the names already, of course, since I&#8217;ve been spending lots of time with babies born last &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=1532\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-babies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}