How popular is the baby name Matthew 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 Matthew.
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According to New York City’s Department of Health, the most popular baby names in the city in 2018 were Emma and Liam.
Here are New York City’s top 10 girl names and top 10 boy names of 2018:
Girl Names
Emma (501 born in NYC in 2018)
Isabella
Sophia
Mia
Olivia
Ava
Leah
Sarah
Amelia
Chloe
Boy Names
Liam (779 born in NYC in 2018)
Noah
Ethan
Jacob
Aiden
David
Lucas
Matthew
Daniel
Alexander
In the girls’ top 10, Amelia and Chloe replaced Emily and Abigail.
In the boys’ top 10, Alexander replaced Jayden.
In 2017, the top two names were also Emma and Liam.
Within each of the five boroughs, the top baby names were…
Manhattan: Emma and Noah
Bronx: Isabella and Liam
Brooklyn: Esther and David
Queens: Mia and Liam
Staten Island: Mia and Michael
And, finally, a few of the baby names bestowed just 10 times each in NYC last year were the girl names Aminah, Ida and Zadie, and the boy names Bentley, Lucian and Warren.
If you’re on the hunt for baby names with a numerological value of 9, you’re in luck! Because today’s post features hundreds of 9-names.
Before we get to the names, though — how do we know that they’re “nines” 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 Rockwell correspond to the numbers 18, 15, 3, 11, 23, 5, 12, and 12. The sum of these numbers is 99. The digits of 99 added together equal 18, and the digits of 18 added together equal 9 — the numerological value of Rockwell.
Baby names with a value of 9
Below you’ll find the most popular 9-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.
9
The letters in the unisex baby name Ace add up to 9.
9 via 18
The letters in the following baby names add up to 18, which reduces to nine (1+8=9).
Girl names (9 via 18)
Boy names (9 via 18)
Lea, Gaia, Ela, Acacia, Addi
Can, Adal, Acie, Edi, Jag
9 via 27
The letters in the following baby names add up to 27, which reduces to nine (2+7=9).
There’s no definitive answer, unfortunately, because various numerological systems exist, and each one has its own interpretation of the number nine. That said, if we look at a couple of modern numerology/astrology websites, we see 9 being described as “humanitarian,” “tolerant,” “helpful,” “determined,” and “compassionate.”
We can also look at associations, which are a bit more concrete. Here are some things that are associated with the number 9:
Pregnancy (9 months long)
Baseball (9 players on the field; 9 innings)
K-9 (“canine”) police dog units
“Cloud nine” (expression)
“Nine lives” of a cat (expression)
“To the nines” (expression)
“The whole nine yards” (expression)
What does the number 9 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 one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eight.
Which boy names decreased the most in popularity from 2017 to 2018?
In this post we’ll answer the question two different ways: first by looking at the top absolute (raw number) drops, second by looking at the top relative drops.
Fastest Falling Boy Names: Absolute
Matthew, -1,747 baby boys
Logan, -1,662
Jacob, -1,408
Aiden, -1,324
Aaron, -1,243
Mason, -1,114
Christopher, -1,024
Michael, -1,019
Andrew, -1,017
Jayden, -981
Fastest Falling Boy Names: Relative
Neizan, -78% (from 27 to 6 baby boys)
Oseias, -74%
Thierno, -74%
Beren, -73%
Franko, -72%
Borna, -71%
Germaine, -71%
Jamien, -71%
Jevin, -71%
Fedor, -69%
(This second list only accounts for names that stayed in the data; I didn’t account for names that fell off the list in 2018.)
If you have any explanations for the name movement above, let us know in the comments!
P.S. Here’s the SSA’s table of baby names that decreased in rank from 2017 to 2018. The top boy names on their list are Aaden, Dilan, and Craig.
On April 13, 1927, the steamship Majestic — the largest ship in the world (at that time) — left Southampton, England, and began heading west toward New York.
Two days later, on the 15th, a baby girl was born to British passengers Matthew and Edith Ellen Ford. The baby was named Marguerite Majestica Ford — middle name in honor of the ship.
The RMS Majestic arrived in the United States on the 19th, and the New York Times recounted the story in print the following day.
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