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Popular Girls Names: Their ups and downs
Popular Girls Names: Their ups and downs
Dec 13, 2024 11:47 PM

  If I were a cookbook writer, I think my first title would be: “100 Ways to Dice and Slice the Social Security List.”  There is so much information to be found embedded in it and so many ways to look at it, that there seems to be no end of different and intriguing ways to parse the data.

  Pam will be writing later about the startling number of names that have been in the Top 1000 consistently—which is to say every single year– since score-keeping began in1880.  Today I’ll take a look at the patterns followed by the names that have moved in and out of fashion.

  First, the girls, grouped by the decades they first came into favor, followed by the specific years when they were included in the Top 100. (This does not include names that have been up there every single year.)

  You may be surprised at when some of the names initially appeared—sometimes earlier, sometimes later than you might have guessed.  Zoe and Chloe, for example, were both strong in the 19th century, as were Savannah and Samantha.  Alexis was already up there in the 1940s, but Alexa didn’t break through till the 70s; Kayla was there as early as the fifties, while—and this may not be such a surprise– Kaitlyn, Katelyn, Kaylee and Makayla all broke through as a group in the eighties, along with Hailey and Bailey.

  1880s-90s (and possibly earlier)

  Abigail: 1880-1897, 1901-1903, 1906, 1939, 1943, 1946, 1949-2009

  Andrea: 1880-1881, 1884-1887, 1889, 1901-1904, 1907-2009

  Ava: 1880-1972, 1974-1975, 1984, 1986-2009

  Bella: 1880-1931, 2000-2009

  Chloe: 1880-1943, 1982-2009

  Ella: 1880-1983, 1988, 1990-2009

  Faith: 1880-1882, 1884-1886, 1888-2009

  Isabella: 1880-1948, 1990-2009

  Isabelle: 1880-1954, 1957, 1991-2009

  Jessica: 1880-1893, 1895, 1898-1900, 1903-1912, 1914-1918, 1935, 1937, 1939-2009

  Lily: 1880-1964, 1966, 1970, 1972, 1976, 1979-2009

  Madelyn: 1893, 1895-1965, 1986-2009

  Mariah: 1880-1908, 1910-1911, 1913, 1973, 1975-2009

  Melanie: 1886, 1938-2009

  Samantha: 1880-1902, 1907, 1964-2009

  Savannah: 1880-1922, 1924-1925, 1928, 1983-2009

  Sofia: 1881, 1881, 1886, 1888-1889, 1891-1892, 1895, 1898, 1900-1901, 1906-1914, 1916-1917, 1920-1925, 1927-1931, 1935, 1969, 1971-2009

  Sophie: 1880-1955, 1984-2009

  Sydney: 1886, 1905, 1932-1957, 1959-1961, 1963-1967, 1981-2009

  Valeria: 1881-1944, 1946-1976, 1983, 1985-2009

  Zoe: 1880-1912, 1914-1926, 1928-1929, 1931-1941, 1951-1955, 1957-1961, 1966, 1970, 1973, 1975, 1983-2009

  1910s

  Alexandra: 1915, 1934, 1936, 1938-2009

  1920s

  Jocelyn: 1927-1937, 1939-1943, 1945, 1948-2009

  1940s

  Alexis: 1943-1963, 1965-2009

  Allison: 1946-2009

  Kimberly: 1946-2009

  Lauren: 1945-2009

  1950s

  Brooke: 19053-1954, 1961-2009

  Gabrielle: 1957-2009

  Kayla: 1959-1960, 1962-2009

  Paige: 1952, 1955-1956, 1958-2009

  Vanessa: 1950-2009

  1960s

  Alyssa: 1963-2009

  Ashley: 1964-2009

  Autumn: 1969-2009

  Mia: 1964-2009

  1970s

  Alexa: 1973-2009

  Ariana: 1978, 1980-2009

  Aubrey: 1973-2009

  Brianna: 1976-2009

  Destiny: 1975-2009

  Gabriella: 1974, 1984-2009

  Jasmine: 1973-2009

  Kylie: 1978-2009

  Layla: 1972-1978, 1993-1996, 1998-2009

  Mackenzie: 1976-2009

  Maya: 1970-2009

  Morgan: 1976-2009

  Taylor: 1979-2009

  Trinity: 1974-1979, 1993-2009

  1980s

  Arianna: 1982, 1986-2009

  Avery: 1989-2009

  Bailey: 1983-2009

  Genesis: 1988-2009

  Giana: 1989-2009

  Hailey: 1982-2009

  Kaitlyn: 1983-2009

  Katelyn: 1981-2009

  Kaylee: 1984-2009

  Madison: 1985-2009

  Makayla: 1989-2009

  1990s

  Aaliyah: 1994-2009

  Addison: 1994-2009

  Brooklyn: 1990-2009

  Camila: 1997-2009

  Mya: 1997-2009

  Payton: 1992-2009

  Peyton: 1992-2009

  Riley: 1990-2009

  Serenity: 1997-2009

  2000s

  Khloe: 2006-2009

  Nevaeh: 2001-2009

  Tomorrow we’ll take a look at the boys’ list.

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