How popular is the baby name Zola 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 Zola.
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Canadian academic Sacvan Bercovitch has an interesting first name. How did he get it? The story begins with his parents:
Bercovitch is the son of Alexander Bercovitch and Bryna Avrutik, Jews born in the Ukraine in the 1890s who grew up during a time of deep poverty, social upheaval, and periodic pogroms.
Alexander and Bryna, both “idealistic communists,” ended up having three children:
Circumstances took them to Moscow, where their first daughter, Sara (later Sylvia) was born; then to Ashkhabad, Turkestan, where their second daughter, Ninel (Lenin spelled backwards), was born. In 1926 they emigrated to Montreal with their two daughters, helped by Bryna’s brothers, who had preceded her. In October 1933 their son Sacvan (his name an amalgamation of Sacco and Vanzetti) was born.
Sacco and Vanzetti, of course, is a reference to Italian-American anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, who were convicted of murder (perhaps wrongly) and sentenced to death in the 1920s.
The most popular baby names in Quebec were announced a little while ago.
According to the Régie des rentes du Québec, the province’s top names last year were Emma and William.
Here are the top 20 girl names and top 20 boy names of 2012:
Girl Names
Emma (505 baby girls)
Lea (474)
Olivia (458)
Florence (439)
Alice (386)
Zoe (385)
Rosalie (377)
Juliette (358)
Camille (348)
Mia (344)
Laurence (335)
Charlie (317)
Jade (293)
Alicia (292)
Anais (292)
Victoria (288)
Maelie (287)
Beatrice (285)
Eva (282)
Chloe (278)
Boy Names
William (855 baby boys)
Nathan (839)
Olivier (798)
Alexis (746)
Samuel (737)
Gabriel (731)
Thomas (707)
Jacob (706)
Felix (702)
Raphael (590)
Antoine (560)
Liam (522)
Noah (462)
Benjamin (446)
Xavier (444)
Emile (440)
Mathis (417)
Adam (412)
Justin (405)
Zachary (389)
Check out Charlie in 12th place for girls. For boys, it’s all the way down in 145th place.
Charlie is being used more and more often as a girl name in the U.S. as well.
The next-most-popular Charl- names for each gender were Charlotte in 24th place and Charles in 21st place. (Though, if you count the hundreds of baby boys with a Charles combination-name, e.g., Charles-Antoine, the total for Charles jumps to over 750, putting the name in 4th place.)
And what about the less-common names?
First, some stats:
Of the 9,074 girl names bestowed last year…
6,686 (74%) of them were given to 1 baby girl, and
8058 (89%) of them were given to 1, 2, 3 or 4 baby girls.
Of the 7,921 boy names bestowed last year…
6,107 (77%) were given to 1 baby boy, and
7121 (90%) were given to 1, 2, 3 or 4 baby boys.
Here are some of Quebec’s unique names (used only once):
Alfred Dreyfus, Emile Zola, and Fernand Labori — all involved in the Dreyfus Affair.
[T]he Dreyfus Affair tore France apart, pitting Dreyfusards—committed to restoring freedom and honor to an innocent man convicted of a crime committed by another—against nationalists, anti-Semites, and militarists who preferred having an innocent man rot to exposing the crimes committed by ministers of war and the army’s top brass in order to secure Dreyfus’s conviction.
Alfred Dreyfus, a French army captain of Jewish descent, was unjustly convicted of treason in late 1894. He spent nearly five years at a penal colony on Devil’s Island before getting another trial in 1899. He wasn’t exonerated until 1906.
French writer Emile Zola accused the French government of antisemitism (among other things) in regards to Dreyfus’s case. He was found guilty of libel in February, 1898, so he fled to England to avoid imprisonment. Zola didn’t return to France until June, 1899.
Fernand Labori, a French attorney, represented Dreyfus at the second trial. He survived an assassination attempt (he was shot in the back) during this time.
Looking for a set of baby names with something in common? If so, here are some 4-letter anagram names for you to check out!
Anagrams are words that contain the same set of letters, but not in the same sequence. For instance, the words “race,” “care,” and “acre” are all anagrams of one another.
Anagram names can be a neat option for siblings — particularly multiples (like twins and triplets). They’re also a clever way to connect a baby name to the name of an older relative (e.g., grandpa Gary, grandson Gray).
Below are hundreds of four-letter names (collected from the SSA’s huge database of U.S. baby names) that happen to be anagrams of other names.
Four-letter anagram names
Adir, Adri, Ardi, Dair, Dari, Diar, Dira, Dria, Riad, Rida
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