Top 100 Baby names of 2008
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Top 100 boys names[^]- Top 100 girls names[^] Looking at the top names, I can't say that many of them actually appeal. If, and this is a big IF, I had a child I would reject most of the names in there without thinking about it. Going by the BBC article people are being influenced by "celebrity". When are we going to stop this vacuousness?! Maybe I'm being old fashioned, but when I look at the names I'd pick they all have some sort of personal or cultural significance for me. William and James would be on my list as I have ancestors with those names. Callum would make it for cultural reasons. (3 out of the top 25). Robert (cultural) is the only other names that appeals in the rest of the top 100. Andrew (family), Angus (family), Euan (family) (although the alternative Ewan is there), Iain (cultural) or Murdo (cultural). For a girl, only Katie (out of the top 25) would make it (for cultural reasons). Expanding it to the top 100: Isabella (family), Caitlin (cultural), and Keira (cultural). Names I'd choose that didn't make it were Rachael (family) (although the alternative spelling Rachel is there), Catriona (family), Fiona (family), or Margaret (family). So, if you had to name a baby what would your shortlist be, and why would the name be there?
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My wife wanted to name our son Matthew because it's always near the top of the list (and she's a Matthew Broderick fan). I wanted Julian because: I'm a John Lennon fan, it's more distinctive (I didn't see it on the list), and doesn't really lend itself to having a diminutive. I eventually wore her down. :-D It's also satisfying to show my displeasure by saying, "Joooo... leeeee...... yaaaaaannn!" through clenched teeth. (Now that he's seven, he often joins in for the "yaaaaaannn" part.) His middle name is Louis (loo-WEE): to honour my family's French heritage, because my wife's (late) mother's name was Lois, and Louise is a frequent middle name for women in my family (but none of my sisters have used it for their daughters).
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Almost all Arab names have a meaning to them. My own (second half of my first) name "Mustafa" means "the chosen one" or "the one chosen from many", my father's name Ismail/Ishmail is an Aramic name (according to wikipedia, I've always known it as Hebrew) which is also mentioned in the Bible and the Qur'an (a son of Abraham). Samuel because it is a name I like and one that historically (Samuel the Judge) denoted wisdom. Other names that I would name my sons & daughters Boys: Mohammed (after my father in law) Adam Kevin Ayoub (Arabic for Job) Joseph (or the Arabic Yousef) Girls: Farah (Arabic for happines/joy) Hibah (Arabic for gift) Jennifer Laura Aya (Arabic for "Meaningful Parable")
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Aya means "meaningful parable"? Any meaningful parable, or a specific one? Isn't that like naming your kid "good story" or "useful lesson", or have I missed something in the translation?
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Aya means "meaningful parable"? Any meaningful parable, or a specific one? Isn't that like naming your kid "good story" or "useful lesson", or have I missed something in the translation?
Someone's gotta be the last to know, but why is it always me?
Its so much more better expressed in Arabic and my translation is certainly not doing it justice. Aya carries several meanings, but they all revolve around meaningful parable. For example, the expression (again, terribly translated) an Aya of beauty denotes that the beauty in discussion is the standard of beauty by which all other beauty is judged but the implication is that no such beauty exists. Arabic is an extremely poetic language, its extremely difficult to translate properly.
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Sig history "dad" Ishmail-Samuel Mustafa "There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance" Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote: Keep it up. Fool.
I now think of you as Mr. T! - Trollslayer
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Top 100 boys names[^]- Top 100 girls names[^] Looking at the top names, I can't say that many of them actually appeal. If, and this is a big IF, I had a child I would reject most of the names in there without thinking about it. Going by the BBC article people are being influenced by "celebrity". When are we going to stop this vacuousness?! Maybe I'm being old fashioned, but when I look at the names I'd pick they all have some sort of personal or cultural significance for me. William and James would be on my list as I have ancestors with those names. Callum would make it for cultural reasons. (3 out of the top 25). Robert (cultural) is the only other names that appeals in the rest of the top 100. Andrew (family), Angus (family), Euan (family) (although the alternative Ewan is there), Iain (cultural) or Murdo (cultural). For a girl, only Katie (out of the top 25) would make it (for cultural reasons). Expanding it to the top 100: Isabella (family), Caitlin (cultural), and Keira (cultural). Names I'd choose that didn't make it were Rachael (family) (although the alternative spelling Rachel is there), Catriona (family), Fiona (family), or Margaret (family). So, if you had to name a baby what would your shortlist be, and why would the name be there?
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For a very cool interactive visualization of baby name popularity since 1880, check out the Baby Name Voyager[^] Java Applet. And for the record (relating to a post later in this thread), Ennis was popular early on but dropped off the scale around 1920. Dave Parker Certified Authorize.Net Developer and Solution Provider IT DevWorks, LLC http://www.itdevworks.com