The biggest gains in usage in 2012 were:
Boys:
- Liam (0.66% --> 0.83%)
- Gael (0.034% --> 0.13%)
- Brantley (0.079% --> 0.13%)
- Jaxon (0.23% --> 0.31%)
- Ethan (0.82% --> 0.87%)
- Jace (0.18% --> 0.23%)
- Eli (0.355% --> 0.40%)
- Damian (0.043% --> 0.19%)
- Henry (0.36% --> 0.40%)
- Hudson (0.17% --> 0.21%)
Girls:
- Harper (0.35% --> 0.37%)
- Emma (0.97% --> 1.08%)
- Paisley (0.08% --> 0.15%)
- Aria (0.1% --> 0.17%)
- Skylar (0.11% --> 0.17%)
- Aubree (0.15% --> 0.21%)
- Zoey (0.33% --> 0.39%)
- Charlotte (0.33% --> 0.39%)
- Avery (0.38% --> 0.43%)
- Amelia (0.33% --> 0.37%)
The reason I prefer percentage-change analysis to rankings is that rankings sometimes aren't all that helpful. So Ethan went from #8 to #4 (which is pretty impressive a jump in the top 10, actually)--does that really mean it's that much more common this year than last? Well, no, not really. In 2011 about 8 in 1000 boys were named Ethan, and in 2012 that increased to about 9 in 1000. The top names are actually all very close to each other in usage.
Which brings me to another fun exercise--relative frequency. While your chances of meeting a baby Ethan haven't really changed all that much, you may have noticed in the lists above that Gael's percentage nearly quadrupled. That's right, you're almost 4x more likely to meet a baby Gael than you were last year.
The biggest risers in relative frequency (only includes names in the Top 1500 for 2012):
Boys:
- Damoni (5.5x)
- Jayceon (4.3x)
- Gael (4x)
- Jionni (3.9x)
- Trayvon (3.24x)
- Brantlee (2.9x)
- Major (2.83x)
- Zayn (2.73x)
- Brantley (2.6x)
- Jase (2.5x)
- Brently (2.33x)
- Gionni (2.32x)
- Damani (2.3x)
- Messiah (2.1x)
- Iker (2x)
- King (1.97x)
- Foster (1.96x)
- Dakari (1.8x)
- Neymar (1.78x)
- Kyrie (1.77x)
Girls:
- Cataleya (22.8x) [no, that is NOT a typo!]
- Kataleya (19.3x)
- Adley (5.8x)
- Litzy (3.34x)
- Sutton (3.3x)
- Kenia (2.78x)
- Batsheva (2.4x)
- Blakely (2x)
- Arya (1.96x)
- Malaysia (1.95x)
- Monroe (1.9x)
- Itzayana (1.84x)
- Zooey (1.8x)
- Colette (1.8x)
- Paisley (1.79x)
- Rosie (1.7x)
- Kenya (1.7x)
- Ivory (1.65x)
- Alyanna (1.65x)
- Braylee (1.64x)
Gotta say, I have no idea where Damani & Damoni came from. Jionni/Gionni is a bit of a surprise, but a logical successor to Giovanni & its many forms. Brantley & Brentley continue their rise from last year. Could they be Top 100 material in a couple years?
I don't think anyone saw Cataleya coming. Adley, Sutton, Blakely, & Monroe are no surprise, following easily in the modern surnames-for-girls trend. Rosie & Colette are nice surprises.
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