I'll say this up front... I actually suggested one of these names when Mary and I were hunting around for new material, after we had blogged all our other choices to smithereens. It never got passed the "how about Blah" stage, but nevertheless! I'll leave it to you to guess which was suggested. The 10 worst, for the record, were:
- Ptolemy
- Magnus
- E-
- Story
- Ever
- Heaven Rain
- Alabama
- Princess
- Evan (for a girl)
- Superman
The problem is that celebrities can get away with naming their kids all kinds of whacky things the rest of us just couldn't. It's not fair to judge them... in a way, the sort of need to go off the deep end when they name their kids.
To me, the worst names of 2007 are actually the most popular names from 2007. Top 5 each, for boys and girls, were:
- Aidan
- Ava
- Braden
- Abigail
- Kaden
- Cailyn
- Ethan
- Madeline
- Caleb
- Isabella
Isabella made an appearance on our list of possibilities for girls because it was the only name we knew that could actually save a girl some money. We learned that the charter for the Isabella Stuart Gardner museum here in Boston states that any girl named Isabella gets free admission. If the trend continues for the name Isabella they may have to revisit that policy.
For those of you who didn't pick up on it, four of the top seven boys' names for 2007 were Aiden, Braden, Kaden, and Jaden. Are you kidding me!? Hayden was #11 in 2006 (dropped to 54th this past year). Ethan was #4; doesn't perfectly rhyme, but still... close enough. I have an apparently trend-setting friend who named her son Caden about a year ago... much better with the C than the K, but we've covered that before.
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I had thought my son's name (Liam) was relatively unused, but it turns out there is another Liam in his class now! A neighbor was walking by the other day and stopped to let us pet his dog -- he asked him his name, and he said "Liam J" automatically. Yeesh.
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