How popular is the baby name Jace in the United States right now? How popular was it historically? Use the popularity graph and data table below to find out! Plus, see all the blog posts that mention the name Jace.
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The name Deliah really stands out here. Only a couple dozen baby girls are named Deliah per year nationally, so it’s very curious to see four Deliahs pop up in a single county.
If you’re on the hunt for baby names with a numerological value of 1, you’re in luck! Because today’s post features hundreds of 1-names.
Before we get to the names, though — how do we know that they’re “ones” in numerology?
Turning names into numbers
Here’s how to calculate the numerological value of a name.
First, for each letter, come up with a number to represent that letter’s position in the alphabet. (Letter A would be number 1, letter B would be number 2, and so forth.) Then, add all the numbers together. If the sum has two or more digits, add the digits together recursively until the result is a single digit. That single digit is the name’s numerological value.
For instance, the letters in the name Taylor correspond to the numbers 20, 1, 25, 12, 15, and 18. The sum of these numbers is 91. The digits of 91 added together equal 10, and the digits of 10 added together equal 1 — the numerological value of Taylor.
Baby names with a value of 1
Below you’ll find the most popular 1-names per gender, according to the latest U.S. baby name data. I’ve further sub-categorized them by total sums — just in case any of those larger numbers are significant to anyone.
1 via 10
The letters in the following baby names add up to 10, which reduces to one (1+0=1).
Girl names (1 via 10)
Boy name (1 via 10)
Eda, Dea, Ebba, Adda, Ade
Ade
1 via 19
The letters in the following baby names add up to 19, which reduces to one (1+9=10; 1+0=1).
Girl names (1 via 19)
Boy names (1 via 19)
Mae, Ema, Abbie, Alea, Aela
Adam, Jace, Dan, Jed, Jah
1 via 28
The letters in the following baby names add up to 28, which reduces to one (2+8=10; 1+0=1).
There’s no definitive answer, unfortunately, because various numerological systems exist, and each one has its own interpretation of the number one. That said, if we look at a couple of modern numerology/astrology websites, we see 1 being described as “leader,” “independent,” “determined,” “creative,” and “self-assured.”
We can also look at associations, which are a bit more concrete. Here are a few things that are associated with the number 1:
Unity
Uniqueness
First place (as in sports)
Unicorn
Monolith
I kept the list short because you can associate the number 1 with just about anything. It’s universal, you might say. (See what I did there?)
What does the number 1 mean to you? What are your strongest associations with the number?
P.S. To see names with other numerological values, check out the posts for the numbers two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, and nine.
Which boy names increased and decreased the most in popularity from 2014 to 2015?
Here are two ways to look at it. The SSA’s way looks at ranking differences and covers the top 1,000 boy names (roughly). My way looks at raw number differences and takes all boy names on the SSA’s list into account.
Biggest Increases
Raw number increases (all boy names)
Ranking increases (top 1,000 boy names)
1. Oliver, +2,181 babies (9,411 to 11,592) 2. Matteo, +1,320 babies (835 to 2,155) 3. Grayson, +1,296 babies (6,556 to 7,852) 4. Mateo, +1,258 babies (3,729 to 4,987) 5. Lincoln, +1,150 babies (4,809 to 5,959) 6. Theodore, +895 babies (3,216 to 4,111) 7. Ezra, +893 babies (3,406 to 4,299) 8. Hudson, +779 babies (5,229 to 6,008) 9. Asher, +754 babies (4,305 to 5,059) 10. Wyatt, +750 babies (8,847 to 9,597)
1. Riaan, +1,360 spots (2,286th to 926th) 2. Huxley, +392 spots (1,354th to 962nd) 3. Wilder, +360 spots (1,324th to 964th) 4. Jaziel, +276 spots (1,215th to 939th) 5. Canaan, +271 spots (1,077th to 806th) 6. Kaison, +251 spots (981st to 730th) 7. Brixton, +212 spots (1,197th to 985th) 8. Ridge, +204 spots (1,136th to 932nd) 9. Omari, +198 spots (708th to 510th) 10. Jabari, +194 spots (1,139th to 945th)
Riaan was boosted by a celebrity baby born in late 2014 to Bollywood actors Riteish Deshmukh and Genelia D’Souza.
Jaziel’s rise seems to be due to Jaziel Avilez, a young singer featured in the 2014 song “Padre Ejemplar” [vid] by Mexican group Los Titanes de Durango.
Omari’s rise can be traced back to American actor Omari Hardwick, who has appeared in the TV shows Being Mary Jane and Power lately, and Jabari’s to basketball player Jabari Parker, the second overall pick in the 2014 NBA draft.
Biggest Decreases
Raw number decreases (all boy names)
Ranking decreases (top 1,000 boy names)
1. Jase, -1,459 babies (3,737 to 2,278) 2. Jayden, -1,448 babies (12,923 to 11,475) 3. Joshua, -1,123 babies (10,843 to 9,720) 4. Andrew, -1,097 babies (11,124 to 10,027) 5. Michael, -1,079 babies (15,400 to 14,321) 6. Jacob, -996 babies (16,812 to 15,816) 7. Anthony, -974 babies (11,538 to 10,564) 8. William, -967 babies (16,776 to 15,809) 9. Jace, -965 babies (6,276 to 5,311) 10. Alexander, -902 babies (15,362 to 14,460)
1. Arnav, -666 spots (888th to 1,554th) 2. Jayse, -257 spots (910th to 1,167th) 3. Neymar, -240 spots (550th to 790th) 4. Rylee, -228 spots (879th to 1,107th) 5. Johnathon, -213 spots (915th to 1,128th) 6. Broderick, -195 spots (971st to 1,166th) 7. Brenden, -187 spots (711th to 898th) 8. Yael, -178 spots (913th to 1,091st) 9. Aidyn, -173 spots (925th to 1,098th) 10. Gavyn, -167 spots (944th to 1,111th)
I can remember Neymar debuting in 2010 under the influence was Brazilian footballer Neymar.
In 2014, the big winners were Oliver and Bode, and the big losers were Jayden and Bently.
How has the ratio of Biblical names to non-Biblical names changed over time (if at all) among the most popular baby names in the U.S.?
This question popped into my head recently, so I thought I’d take a look at the data. We’ll do boy names today and girl names tomorrow.
First, let’s set some parameters. For these posts, “Biblical” names are personal names (belonging to either humans or archangels) mentioned in the Bible, plus all derivatives of these names, plus any other name with a specifically Biblical origin (e.g., Jordan, Sharon, Genesis). The “most popular” names are the top 20, and “over time” is the span of a century.
For boy names, the ratio of Biblical names to non-Biblical names has basically flipped over the last 100 years. Here’s a visual — Biblical names are in the yellow cells, non-Biblical names are in the green cells, and a borderline name (which I counted as non-Biblical) is in the orange cell:
Borderline name: Jerry (can be based on the Biblical name Jeremy/Jeremiah or on the non-Biblical names Jerome, Gerald, Gerard)
It felt strange putting an overtly Christian name like Christopher in the non-Biblical category, but it doesn’t appear anywhere in the Bible, so…that’s where it goes.
Here are the year-by-year tallies:
Year
Top 20 names given to…
# Biblical
# Non-Biblical
1914
40% of baby boys
5 (25%)
15 (75%)
1924
43% of baby boys
6 (30%)
14 (70%)
1934
43% of baby boys
7 (35%)
13 (65%)
1944
47% of baby boys
7 (35%)
13 (65%)
1954
46% of baby boys
11 (55%)
9 (45%)
1964
42% of baby boys
11 (55%)
9 (45%)
1974
38% of baby boys
11 (55%)
9 (45%)
1984
36% of baby boys
14 (70%)
6 (30%)
1994
27% of baby boys
14 (70%)
6 (30%)
2004
19% of baby boys
14 (70%)
6 (30%)
2014
14% of baby boys
14 (70%)
6 (30%)
But there’s a huge difference between sample sizes of 40% and 14%, so let’s also take a look at the 2014 top 100, which covers 42% of male births.
By my count, last year’s top 100 boy names were half Biblical, half non-Biblical:
(Christian, Angel, Xavier, Dominic…all technically non-Biblical, despite having strong ties to Christianity.)
50%-50% isn’t quite as extreme as 70%-30%, but it’s still noticeably more Biblical than 1914’s 25%-75%.
Do any of these results surprise you?
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