Former Home of Mike's Baby Name Site
During the last few years of my employment at the Social Security Administration I initiated the creation of lists tracking the most popular baby names of all babies registered with a Social Security number. This constitutes the vast majority of babies born in the U.S. and abroad to parents of U.S. citizenship since the vast majority of babies are now enumerated at birth. At first I displayed my popularity lists at this URL. However Social Security eventually made room on their web site for them and told me to remove the lists from this forum. A listing of the lists available at the Social Security web site can be found here. In April 2000 I left Social Security to pursue my other interests, primarily my web site devoted to the mathematical analysis of casino gambling, www.thewizardofodds.com. Another actuary, Michael Clingman, has continued the baby names project and annual updates will continue to be provided. Please visit the Social Security site for the most popular names of the past and present. Finally, if you are expecting a new baby soon my advice is don't give him/her a highly popular name. As a Michael I think I speak with some authority.
For other baby name sites may I recommend the following.
- For anything else you want to know about baby names I high highly
recommend babynames.com
. They have meanings to numerous names, an advice column, pictures, a bulletin board, commercial resources, and links to other
pages on the subject of babies.
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Dr. Evans, Ph.D. is a professor of psychology at Bellevue
University in Nebraska and has done a lot of research on
the subject of baby names. His page includes a top
20 list for 1995.
- The Baby Center is an
online guide to pregnancy, labor, parenting, and baby names. A great deal
of information is available and very professionally done.
-
The New Baby Name Index. Big list of baby names from
around the world, including my lists.
- The BabyZone
for the lighter side of pregnancy.
- Eponym. Ideas and help in choosing a baby name.
- The web page of C.J.
has my full grouped lists for 1997,
male and
female.
- If you are interested in Irish names
Fiona Hyland has a good page on the subject.
- Search Yahoo
for baby name pages.
Last update: November 16, 2000