Why Top 100 Baby Names?
Online surfers are divided into two categories of people looking for baby names. One part is looking for the names that are the most commonly used at this point in time. Is it because they want their newborn child to gain something socially? The other part of the parents to be is looking for the opposite. They search for odd baby names in search for inspiration and maybe to be sure that no other boy or girl in the neighborhood has a similar name. Is this a symbol of the baby being unique?
Two Major Groups Looking at Top Baby Names
While looking into search patterns I stumbled upon the fact that parents to be or other people that has an interest in baby names are divided into two major groups. Nothing special about the fact that people belong to different groups but this one shows a trend that has been gaining strength for the last 5-10 years.
On one side we have the parents that are searching for phrases like “top 100 baby names”, “top ten baby names”, “popular baby names” etc. All of these phrases have in common that the surfer is looking for what everyone else is naming their baby.
Now don’t get me wrong… There is absolutely nothing wrong with wanting to call your baby a commonly used name. There can many reasons for wanting to name your baby boy or baby girl the same name as most other kids. Many kids had their names picked from somebody else the top baby names list, and certainly, they are not bad. It is also possible that you gave the baby his or her name and it happened to be on that list A reason could be that you want the baby to be socially accepted when he or she grows up and starts playing with other children.
Another reason would be that it might be easier for the baby to get called in for a job interview and maybe even get the job. It can be a tradition in the family to name the babies the name that ranks number 1 in the previous year.
There can be a lot of reasons for naming a baby after the majority of the babies born in that time period. This is not the part that got my attention.
Looking for Unusual Baby Names
What got my attention was that on the other side there is a similarly large group of parents that are looking for the exact opposite. They are searching for phrases like “unusual baby names”, odd baby names”, unique baby names” etc.
Again the reasons for wanting an unusual baby name can be many and I can only guess what they might be but from what is happening in society I think that some of the most obvious reasons are these:
You want to show the outside world that your baby is something special. By giving your child a name that only a few people carry then you have made them special. They now have a name that will (probably) be easier for other people to remember because of the fact that they haven’t heard the name before.
A second reason can be that it has become a trend to name your child a unique name. Over the years this trend has been increasing and like with the common name a special name can now apply for status as well.
Why people are divided into these categories no one knows. There is naturally still the third category left and that are the ones searching for neutral baby names. It is hard to say anything specific about these search patterns but it is a fact that they exist and there is nothing right or wrong no matter what category you might fall into.
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