This is always fun, yes.

*sigh* My name continues to dwindle, surrounded by names I consider very unusual: Cambria, Analia (how is that pronounced?), Kairi, and Aleigha.

Ha, our chosen baby name is not in the top 1000 names for the last 100 years! Unique is good!

All sorts of names not in the top 1000! Here are a few from the very bottom of the list, with only 5 occurrences (in the listed sex):

Anacecilia
Chantilly (can't believe that's not more popular?)
Dixy
Honest
Kosisochukwu
Oluwaseyifunmi
Rembrandt
Righteous
Scotland
Treyvan
Tyquavious
Xzadrian

Sigh, in the last ten years my name has gone from the 500s to the 800's. At that rate, it'll drop off the list totally in a couple of years.

I'm in the high 2300s!

Others with similar frequency include Batsheva, Keyli, and -- ugh -- Trinitee.

Just say no, TPS. Just say no.

(For anyone who wondered: yes, my name is totally Adisyn.)

Interesting that there has been a persistent gap between % of males/females with names in the top 100.

My daughter's name is still solidly in the 2-300s, with the more common (uglier) spelling in the 80s, and it's been that way for the last 10 years or so. That's about the spot we were shooting for. Common enough that everyone knows it, uncommon enough that there won't be 4 of them in her kindergarten class.

The mother of one of my daughter's friends still facepalms when Twilight is mentioned, because her daughter is named after Bella Abzug, and she had never heard of the book series :)

And my spelling isn't in the top 1000, but the most common version is in the low 400s right now.

No sign of my name, although Janessa is quite appealing ...

Was a bit surprised that Elder Son's name wasn't more popular, that Younger Son's name was so popular (mid 50s), and not so surprised that Baby Sister's name wasn't in the top 1000 for the last 12 years.

I was just futzing with the yearly files a couple weekends ago. My name isn't in this years either.

I just realized Notepad++ allows you to search all the files in a directory. The first appearance of my name (as spelled by my grandmother) was 1973. It topped out at 21 babies in 1977. Only 16 a year later when I was born. Thus proving my statement that there was something in the water/air in the 70s ....

My name has gone from #15 when I was born to #808 in 2011.

I am dismayed that Craig has dropped from #339 in 2000 to #811 in 2011. I THOUGHT that Craigslist, The Late Late Scotsman and James Bond's last name would've done wonders for the 'brand'. Was that Senator with the 'wide stance' that much a downer? (The commonly misunderstood version, Greg(ory) has also fallen, from #139 to #279 - other Greg/Gregg variations are way down the list)

Meanwhile, Wendell has also declined from 100 boys in 2000 (ranking around #1300) to 52 in 2011 (around #2400). The feminine Wendy has dropped from a ranking of #317 to #677 (doesn't anybody like their burgers anymore?) In 2000 there were 12 Wendalls but less than 5 Wendels; in 2011 there were 11 Wendels but less than 5 Wendalls. (Sorry, Arrested Development band. Mr. Wendal does not register)

In fact, going through all the names of my relatives: parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins, ALL of them have fallen significantly in popularity in the last decade. Then again, my family has a lot of boringly white-bread names.

Deborah reminded me to check the year I was born... Craig was #49, Wendell was #230 (if I counted right). Things ARE getting worse.

Huh, it says "John" has gone from 1 to 27th in the last 130 years. I think it may have something to do with, in my time, name choices where very Bible-centered. Maybe these days, not so much. Anyway, as unpopular as "John" has become, every family seems to have at least one.

Mine went from top 5 in the decade I was born and the decade after, to 27th, then 94th in the succeeding two decades. That tells me that a whole generation of young women grew up determined that their own kids were not going to have such a boring name inflicted upon them.

I'm just going ot wait until Roman-Era names become popular again. I need to meet more Scipos.

Hm. My name was in the top 100 when I was born, but now is nearly 600 in ranking out of 1000. My favored nickname from my name has done better...currently at 300 something out of 1000. And to think my mom hated that nickname.

And my eldest son's name was 25th out of 1000 the year he was born (1993), and now is only at #67. Younger son's name was more uncommon: 195 the year he was born (1997) and 406 now.

My name was unheard of in 1964, then suddenly burst on the scene in 1965 and spent most of the late 60s at #2. It's fallen off...52 in 2000, and now 144 in 2011.

That's OK - it was frustrating never being the only one in my class, let alone my grade. It was kind of a walk down memory lane looking at the other names from my era, and remembering the many many Lisas, Jennifers, Kimberlys, Amys and Angelas in my childhood (who are, of course, still around today: my name cohort!).

The name I go by, which is my middle name, has dropped from the mid-400s to the mid-600s in the last decade. My actual first name, which is an odd spelling variant of a name nobody's ever heard of anyway, probably peaked in popularity around 1875 or so.

Mine was in the top 10 in the US when I was born, and is now down around 200. I'm not sure it was ever that popular here in the UK, though, as I was usually the only one in my year at school and have rarely met another.

There are no names better than old lady names. Gladys, Agnes, Bertha, Agatha, Delores, Maude, Gertrude. Opal or Pearl. Hortense. These are the names I love.

Maude! I wanted that for our kid's middle name: Madeleine Maude. It got vetoed. still, I got Eleanor, so I shouldn't complain.

Miko - one of my friends just named her daughter Jennifer (and they call her Jen) and it just seems so... wrong to hear a toddler being called that. Jennifers and Jens are *my* generation, dammit!

ColdChef: how about Lavinia, my maternal great grandmother's name? I almost got stuck with that one (1968) but thankfully my dad vetoed it. According to my mom, I also narrowly missed getting tagged with some hippie moniker like "Rain" or sth.

there were about a dozen each Lisas and Jennifers in my grade, and in my late teens and early 20s our friend set included so many Mikes that we ended up having to give them clarifiying modifiers for conversational purposes; i.e. "tall Mike" and "crazy Mike" and "Florida Mike". Then there was the flood of Heathers and Ryans that came along about six to ten years later.

oh dear lord, then there were all the J-names for boys that were born between the late 70s and mid 80s... in the early 2000s, I temped at a place with 2 Jasons, 2 Jeremy(ie)s and three Justins, all of whom were undergrad lab assistants / interns. It got so confusing that our collective for the lab guys was "the Js", as in "go get one of the Js to help you find that spec". One of the Jasons claimed he had 2 brothers: a Justin and a Jeremy, so he was already used to being called "JustinwaitJeremynodammitImeanJason...c'mere!" it was insane.

my first name has boringly enough floated about between #5 and #20 for the past six or seven decades. I'll blame British royalty.

Whelk, I was good friends with a Scipio in the halcyon days of my misspent youth. He was one of the line cooks at a place I tended bar and through mutual D&D / RPG nerdfriends became the DM for our merry little band for a number of years. Nice guy, drew tight maps and ran a cracking campaign. He also owned the most extensive and obscure collection of rare / imported anime films I've seen before or since.

Curious, the name I changed my name to when I was ten (long story) was the #1 girl's name the year I was born. (That sentence sounds like some kind of riddle.) There were a lot of us around growing up, now that I think about it. Sometimes I think of going back to Leona, my birth name, after my uncle Leo. My birth mother always called me Lee. I miss that.

My name - Megan - is declining in popularity I see. But my brother's name is number 2! At our age his name - Mason - is pretty uncommon though - I've never met another one.

Name trends are interesting.

Speaking of biblical names, my siblings and I were all born in the 50s and 60s and we all ended up with biblical first names (two of which are still in the top 10); Mum said it was an accident although she was church-going at the time. At least we ended up with decent family names as middle names. My middle name seems to top out at #152 in 1916.