Talk:List of most popular given names

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i thought here will islamik names but i dint meet , whyyyyyyy i wanted select or know what name is more popul. why u dint fill it??????/ selene

Pleae add a Muslim country if you have an official list. We also need Russia, China, etc. Jameswilson 01:25, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

I see the value in creating these articles, but I also think there are a few issues with the titles of these pages:

  • The capitalization is not right. The title should be "Most popular names".
  • It should probably specify "given names". Otherwise, it could mean "family names", and in fact there is a List of most popular family names (although that is strange, since they are rarely chosen, making "popularity" maybe the wrong notion).
  • The title should say something about "in the US", unless there are plans to extend the list to other countries.
  • Also, pages like this tend to be titled "List of...", although that's probably not an absolute requirement.

Anyway, good job on making this set of pages. -- VV 23:28, 23 Oct 2003 (UTC)

I'd like to see a source cited. Who collected this information? The US census bureau? --Delirium 22:41, Oct 26, 2003 (UTC)

VANDALISM: ALL MOST POPULAR FEMALE NAMES IN EUROPE ARE SET TO GABRIELLE WHICH IS DEFINITLY NOT TRUE!!!

As many people want this kept (see the October section of Talk:Most popular names/Delete), a new title should be decided. Any objections to List of most popular names in the United States? The only problem is that it makes the subpages have quite long titles as they would be things like List of most popular names in the United States in the 1890s. Angela 21:13, Nov 1, 2003 (UTC)

I probably don't know very much about naming pages, but how about something like Most popular American names? That would keep the links to a length of about Most popular American names in the 1920s. Anyway, I have begun to continue work on the lists and I hope to be finished within the next week or so. For those of you who are wondering, I get all of the information from the links at this site. MattSal 21:40, Nov 2, 2003 (UTC)

Sounds good, but IMO it's best to go for something like "[[Most poular US names in the 1920s" as that's more specific; see American. Cheers, -- Infrogmation 22:56, 4 Nov 2003 (UTC)

I see your point. Anyways, I'm currently up to the 1950's and hope to finish the 1970's by the end of today. I'll save the last parts for this weekend. When I'm done, we can go about renaming and/or moving the article. MattSal 22:52, Nov 5, 2003 (UTC)

One thing that's occurred to me is that the lists of names could be greatly compressed; those bulleted lists of ten names could probably be made into one line each. Then, the proliferation of decade lists would not even be necessary. Of course, this retooling would require considerable effort on someone's part. -- VV 22:18, 2 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Sorry guys. I got lazy that one weekend. This time I will finish the pages. Then we or I can move them. Sorry. MattSal 21:44, Nov 15, 2003 (UTC)

This should be at something titled List of and specify that it is given names, I think, because that is what it is. List of most popular given names in the United States and List of most popular American given names are both fine, though the first is probably best because it eliminates any controversy about the meaning of American. The length of the subpages doesn't really matter -- aside from being a minor inconvenience for linking, of which there will not be much, I'd imagine. Tuf-Kat 21:51, Nov 15, 2003 (UTC)

I have added names in Japanese, Korean and Chinese. Can I decapitalize this to most popular names. The title sounds like a book title. -- Taku 22:11, Nov 15, 2003 (UTC)~

I changed it to lower case, but I didn't change the links to it as it might be merging with list of most popular family names anyway so it would need to be changed again then. I did fix all the broken redirects caused by the moving of the 1980s etc ones though. Angela

I just found an article. List of most popular family names. This article can and should be merged with it without much trouble. And as told above, they are brilliant lists. They are not encyclopedic yet but we can work on. -- Taku 22:23, Nov 15, 2003 (UTC)

I think that rather than merge this and List of most popular family names names, that surnames from that list should be added here and the other list turned into first/given names. -- BCorr ¤ Брайен 19:57, 18 Nov 2003 (UTC)

This page is now a mishmosh. Although its title indicates that it's refering to family names, the links to the United States articles are to given names. RickK 21:30, 22 Nov 2003 (UTC)

What I have done! This is about given names not family names. I am sorry for screwing. Right, we cannot merge this to list of most popular family names. -- Taku 23:52, Nov 22, 2003 (UTC)

Is this a page for first-names, considering that there's another page for family names ? And why's the page made up of only Japanese names, with links to US ones ? Jay 19:12, 11 Jan 2004 (UTC)

I think the US ones are just split off as they would be too long for the page. It might be worth splitting the Japanese ones off too and having this as a disambiguation page for any language. Angela. 21:02, Jan 13, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Social Security began during the New Deal

From the article:

Every year in the United States the Social Security's Office of the Chief Actuary publishes a list of the top 10...

The US Social Security agency did not exist in the 1880s. Is there another source we are missing? func(talk) 01:28, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Er, sorry. Obviously, they would have had information on people going back that far. Nevermind. func(talk) 01:32, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Business Naming

Does anyone have information on how to approach naming your business? I'm looking to differentiate myself. The business is managed care contracting services.

[edit] Misleading

Any reason why the microprint changes some countries (ie Canada) from "Most Popular Names" to "Most Popular Baby Names"? Men in Canada aren't called Ethan, Joshua or Dylan, we're all Doug, Mike, Gord, Gordon or Gordie - I'm reluctant to change it without knowing the rational, but it certainly reads like these are the most popular names for me, unless you pull out your magnifying glass for the 2 point disclaimer. Seems a "baby names of the last year" list likely belongs somewhere else. WilyD 15:50, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

yes, harmonise it if you want. All the lists are about baby names really. Jameswilson 02:37, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

There's a (probably fairly recent) list of the most popular names on the Benesse website at <http://women.benesse.ne.jp/hakase/sitemap/namae.html>.

The lists are given as fairly low-rez gifs, making it impossible to cut and paste and difficult even to read.Tweeq 15:33, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Brazilian names

The list of Brazilian names is probably wrong, because it has some names that have a spelling that is certainly not brazilian.

For example, "Julian" is definitely not a name common in Brazil. It could refer to "Juliano". Also "Estevan" sounds more like a Spanish name. In Brazil the most common form could be perhaps "Estevão".

Concerning female names, "Beatrice" is certainly very rare. The usual spelling would be "Beatriz".

Considering that there is no source, I believe the list there should be deleted, or replaced by some list that comes from a citable source.

--Ekalin 23:56, 27 September 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Popular names by language

Would it not perhaps be useful, given that choice of name is very much tied in with language and culture (despite the homogenising effect of English), to add tables listing the most popular names within the the principal language groupings (ie. English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, etc)? Trying to compare trends between (for example) Scotland, England, Australia, NZ, and Canada is pretty difficult with the current set-up. This is arguably of more use than only listing nations within continental groups - the most popular names in the UK have little to do with those of France, which have little to do with those of Lithuania, etc, etc.

Any thoughts?

Xdamrtalk 01:47, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Name of article is completely misleading

I would think that most people who look up these lists would expect to find the most common given names (first names) of people currently living in a particular country. These lists are only the most common names given to people born in 2005 or whatever year that particular list pertains to. People born in different years vastly outnumber these newborns, and most of them tend to have different names, or names in different proportions. Therefore, I propose that the name of this article be "Most popular given names for people born in year 200x". Furthermore, there should be another article with lists of the most common given names which includes people who are older than newborns or one-year-olds (the vast majority of people alive). Backspace 01:24, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Moving to wiktionary?

I don't see how this page belongs there as an appendix.. It's more than just a listing of words, and these names are related by fast-changing popularity - not anything linguistic. Eug 00:18, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Static lists by year

During the recent AfD discussion for this article, I made the observation that it might be useful to convert the list from a single, dynamic, continually-updated list into a set of static lists by year, such as List of most popular given names in 2006, List of most popular given names in 2007, and so forth, as is already being done for the lists of the United States. This way, results from previous years would not need to be lost whenever a new publication is released. Any comments? Ayla 09:50, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] ==Portuguese Names==

This section should be removed. There are no national statistics for names since the early 90's. While some names in the list are undisputably common (Maria, Ana, João), most of them are random names put there due to the personal observations of the person who made the list. Fábio, for instance, is not that common. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.154.46.59 (talk) 20:23, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] American Names

There is no way that this list can be right. Shaniqua is not a very popular name. Not outside the black community, anyway, which doesn't seem large enough to skew the namings that much. I think that may just be a joke. 97.84.218.95 (talk) 03:45, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Reverted. This kind of vandalism happens all the time on the list. Ayla (talk) 10:50, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Fynn/Finn: German Name

Are you sure about it being the third most-given name in Germany? I'm german and I never even SAW (or heard) this name before —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.44.64.199 (talk) 22:21, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

Yes. It's on the official 2007 list for Germany as No. 3. People pick new and/or ridiculous names in every country, which is probably why you've never heard of it. It's a newer name used for babies. --Bookworm857158367 (talk) 23:12, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Islamic names in UK

Seriously isn't wikipedia better than having information sourced from a forum, especially when the person who claims the stats in from the US —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.121.151.142 (talk) 19:14, 10 May 2008 (UTC)