Social Security Admin Releases Top Baby Names Of 2014

The arrival of Princess Charlotte Elizabeth Diana has everyone in a flutter of baby excitement, including the social security administration, which just released the list of top baby names of 2014. Just yesterday, Friday May 8, they posted their findings of the ten most popular names of both boys and girls. The two most popular names were, not surprisingly, Emma and Noah.

Noah is back at the top of the list for the second year in a row. Emma, always an extremely popular name, reclaimed its place at the very top of the list for the first time since 2008. Emma has been in the top four favorite baby names since 2002, which happens to be the same year Friends star Rachel named her baby Emma.

Trends seem to come and go faster than ever before, thanks to worldwide technology and broadcasting systems. But the name Emma seems to outlast the evolving trends and stay a name that most of America agrees is beautiful and trendy, yet classic.

The rest of the top names are as follows:

Boys

1. Noah

2. Liam

3. Mason

4. Jacob

5. William

6. Ethan

7. Michael

8. Alexander

9. James

10. Daniel

Girls

1. Emma

2. Olivia

3. Sophia

4. Isabella

5. Ava

6. Mia

7. Emily

8. Abigail

9. Madison

10. Charlotte

Other ever popular names include Jacob, Ethan, Alexander, Emily, and Abigail. These names have been scattered somewhere on the top baby name list for the last 10 years. Charlotte has also seen increasing popularity, and now that it’s the name of a princess, experts expect it to be near or at the top of the list sometime in the next three years.

There also seems to be a Biblical trend with the boys side. Noah, Jacob, Michael, James, and Daniel are all taken from the Bible.

Though it’s unique to have so many biblical names in one year, it’s not new to have several old-time names topping the list. As reported previously on the Inquistr, last year’s number one baby names had a lot of old timers, including Marnie, Marlowe, Christian, Phaedra, Severine, Severus, and Thor.

Perhaps, not surprisingly, the influence from these names seems to come from the media. Obviously, the name Thor is taken from the famous Marvel superhero played by Chris Hemsworth. Furthermore, the popularity of Noah most likely comes from the movie Noah with Russel Crowe, which came out near the beginning of 2014, but was highly publicized before that. Then we have Severus, which was largely made popular by the close of the Harry Potter series, and Severine, which is noted most recently in Skyfall.

We’d like to hope that parents are choosing these names because they hear the name and like it, but more than likely, these names are a sign of the ever present media and pop culture taking over our way of thinking. It seems that parents are choosing names based off of their favorite characters before looking to honorable names off their family tree, as was so common in the past.

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