I have complied the top 1000th names for both boys and girls in the USA for every year (not that it’s that hard haha) and I found them absolutely fascinating. I figured they would be easy to digest in smaller portions, so here is the the very last names on the list of most popular names from 1880-1889:
Boys are first, Girls are second
I’m just waiting now for someone to post the 666th name for both boys and girls in the USA for every year. “The Number of the [name_m]Little[/name_m] Beastie.” evil cackle
Names I like: [name_m]Griffin[/name_m], [name_f]Arabella[/name_f], [name_f]Daisy[/name_f], [name_f]Maybell[/name_f], [name_f]Margarete[/name_f], [name_f]Laurel[/name_f], [name_m]Cooper[/name_m], [name_f]Olena[/name_f], [name_m]Leyton[/name_m], and [name_m]Lott[/name_m]. The rest are nms.
This is a cool idea. [name_m]Layton[/name_m], [name_u]Cody[/name_u], [name_m]Griffin[/name_m], [name_f]Daisy[/name_f], [name_f]Arabella[/name_f], and [name_m]Cooper[/name_m] are all in the Top 1000 right now, and most of them would be considered “trendy” here. This goes to show that a lot of names that end up with that label have been used for a lot longer than we think.
I am surprised by [name_m]Cooper[/name_m] and [name_f]Arabella[/name_f]. I didn’t expect those names to appear in the 1800’s. My favorites are [name_m]Griffin[/name_m], and [name_m]Layton[/name_m]. I would like [name_f]Margarete[/name_f] if it were [name_f]Marguerite[/name_f].
The most surprising to me actually is [name_f]Daisy[/name_f] for boys. If you check out the records, [name_f]Daisy[/name_f] for a boy has been ranked 6 different years:
And never since then. So, never very popular, but it’s still very interesting to me Especially since I lean far more liberal when it comes to gender-bending namings.
