Friends, family, my co-workers at Google, and random strangers on the internet have contributed more than 500 votes for our kid’s name. At this point we have some clear favorites, with Dylan leading the boys chart and Olivia and Ada pulling ahead on the girls chart.
I’ve decided to move all the charts to this post, I’ll try to add updates with more detail as time goes on.
First, the graph of the most popular Girls’ names:
EDIT: Well, it turns out I made some pretty crazy formulas and broke my own charts. I’ll have an update soon to tell you how to make cool charts and how not to break them. The voting form works, though, so don’t be afraid to contribute.
DOUBLE EDIT: I’ve put in static versions of the charts while I work on fixing my spreadsheet.
Here’s the graph of the most popular Boys’ names:
Here’s a familiar, if not cognitively optimum, pie chart showing who has been voting:
Just for fun, here are graphs of some of the leading names’ popularity since the 1880s from the wonderful Baby Name Wizard website.
The only problem with these graphs is that they don’t give an identifiable scale. So, you can’t easily compare the different name graphs below – note that the darker the hue, the more babies had that name.
Olivia:
Popularity of names starting with OLIVIA
Ada:
Popularity of names starting with ADA
Athena:
Popularity of names starting with ATHENA
Erin:
Popularity of names starting with ERIN
Cassia:
Popularity of names starting with CASSIA
Alexis:
Popularity of names starting with ALEXIS
Alexandria:
Popularity of names starting with ALEXANDRIA
Althea:
Popularity of names starting with ALTHEA
Ozma:
Popularity of names starting with OZMA
Dylan:
Popularity of names starting with DYLAN
Nikolas:
Popularity of names starting with NIKOLAS
Aaron:
Popularity of names starting with AARON
Alexander
Popularity of names starting with ALEXANDER
Levi:
Popularity of names starting with LEVI
Isaac:
Popularity of names starting with ISAAC
Eric:
Popularity of names starting with ERIC
Sydney:
Popularity of names starting with SYDNEY
Next up I’ll write a post about the write-in suggestions we’ve gotten.
GOOGLE – boy and girl!!
boy-Dante, girl-Eveline…nice names
i think a cute girls name is either
Sadie IsaBella Morrison (which means princess, consecrated, or something special, to god)
thanks =D
cool names (off twilight)
=D hope it helps
girls
Esme
Rosalie
Alice
IsaBella Marie (bella)*
Renesmee Carlie *
boys
Edward
Carlisle
Jasper
Charlie
boys-
harrison
baker
maison/mason
hunter (girl or boy)
van
bam
girls-
indy/indie
jannana
merrin
charlie
frankie
Hayley for girl
Ryan for boy
I think that Alexander is a name I hear a lot walking around high school. Olivia, I just plain don’t like that name. Plus Alexis is my name and I think it is too preppy for my personality; thus shortening it to Lex.
Cassia is cute and I adore the name Levi!
Some other names: Jasper, Riley, Jessie, Rory, Jamie, Alice, Demitri, Kai, Owen, Wyatt…
DO NOT NAME “ADA” if its a GIRL, she will be made fun of her whole life because of the Resident Evil character “Ada Wong”, they will forever be saying “she ada wong”….”ADA WAIT”….seriously think about it, do you want your daughter, if she is a girl, being called mean names that have to do with a mans nether regions?.
It would just be cruel to name her that, school kids will tear her apart emotionally.
ooo, come on, it’s beautiful to name her Ada. It’s a classic and wonderful name, it has a meaning, and many histories, and the most interesting is about programming.
There’s a whole programming language named ADA as Ada the Countess of Lovelace, the “first programmer”.
Come on, that’s the most adequate name for a girl. It’s perfect! You should definitively name a girl ADA.
and it fits perfectly with the surname too