How popular is the baby name Artemis in the United States right now? How popular was it historically? Find out using the graph below! Plus, check out all the blog posts that mention the name Artemis.
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According to New York City’s Department of Health, the most popular baby names in the city in 2017 were Emma and Liam.
Here are New York City’s top 10 girl names and top 10 boy names of 2017:
Girl Names 1. Emma 2. Olivia 3. Mia 4. Sophia 5. Isabella 6. Ava 7. Leah 8. Emily 9. Sarah 10. Abigail
Boy Names 1. Liam 2. Noah 3. Jacob 4. Ethan 5. David 6. Lucas 7. Matthew 8. Jayden 9. Aiden 10. Daniel
In the girls’ top ten, Abigail replaced Madison.
In the boys’ top ten, David and Jayden replaced Dylan and Michael.
Within each of the five boroughs, the top baby names were…
Manhattan: Olivia and James
Bronx: Isabella and Liam
Brooklyn: Esther and David
Queens: Emma and Liam
Staten Island: Olivia and Michael
And finally, some of the baby names bestowed just 10 times each in NYC last year:
Artemis, Tzippy, Reizy (girl names)
Azriel, Zeus, Thaddeus (boy names)
NYC also used to break down top names by ethnic/racial group (see the 2015 rankings, for example) but this time around the press release didn’t include that information.
According to an article published in late January by Moldovan news site Publika TV, the most popular baby names in Moldova in 2016 were Sofia and David.
The article was hard to interpret, but here’s my guess at Moldova’s top girl names and top boy names of 2016:
Girl Names 1. Sofia 2. Anastasia 3. Daria 4. Victoria 5. Alexandra 6. Evelina 7. Amelia 8. Andrea 9. Valeria 10. Gabriela
Boy Names 1. David 2. Maxim 3. Alexandru 4. Artiom (…which is based on the name of Greek goddess Artemis) 5. Ion (…looks molecular, but it’s actually a form of John) 6. Bogdan 7. Daniel 8. Matthew 9. Nikita 10. Michael
Boston’s Central Burying Ground was established in 1756, so it’s newer than the other Boston cemeteries I’ve blogged about (King’s Chapel, Granary, and Copp’s Hill). Nevertheless, it still contains some pretty interesting names:
A reader named Lisa is expecting her second daughter a couple of weeks and needs some name assistance. Her first daughter is Copeland Rhine. Lisa’s main predicament is this:
[H]ow do I find a strong unique vintage name for this second precious girlie that will not wilt next to a strong name like Copeland Rhine?
And here are some other questions and points Lisa brought up:
“Our goal is not to have their names competing for placement but complimenting each other.”
“We do not want to be boxed in on unisex or surname first names.”
“I have been gravitating towards Sojourner Bliss or Sojourner Mercy (Sophie for short) but that is all I have and my husband is not sold on it nor on a stronger masculine name.”
“My husband really loves Evangeline yet he is not wanting to use it because it is becoming so popular. We both love the idea of Evie as a nickname.”
“I really want to honor three people in my family but all three would not wish their name on anyone: Leona, Gertrude and Lorraine. Are there any derived names that I could use?” [Other family names she mentioned are Cornelia, Josephine, Ester, Rosemary, Carmelita, Trinia (Trijntje), Johannes, Sophia, Evelientje, Alice (called Ollie), Francis, Felicia and Blanche.]
The baby’s surname will be a 2-syllable name that starts with D and also includes a z-sound. It’s somewhat similar to De Souza.
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So the challenge is to find “strong unique vintage” names that work with Copeland, but that won’t lock Lisa’s family into surnames or unisex names. And to try to get a family connection in there as well.
I think Evangeline is a great idea, actually. It’s strong, vintage, and neither a surname nor a unisex name. And both Lisa and her husband like the nickname Evie. Seems like the only thing holding them back is the popularity.
Yes, Evangeline has become slightly popular recently. It’s been back in the top 1,000 since 2006. But let’s put that into context. Over 2,000,000 baby girls were born last year, and only 735 of them were named Evangeline. That’s a very small percentage. (But if it’s really that bothersome, there’s always Evangelina, which is still well out of the top 1,000.)
I’m not a big fan of Sojourner. It’s strong, and unique, and not a surname…but it’s not feminine, and it’s not what I’d call vintage, even if Sojourner Truth was a well-known 19th-century woman. I’d worry about teasing, especially with a noun-middle like Bliss or Mercy. And I think naming a third child (of either gender) after Copeland and Sojourner would be tricky.
Sophie seems like it would be an awkward nickname for Sojourner. It’s so different from Sojourner that it strikes me as more of a cover-name than a nickname–as if Sojourner were just too strong or strange to work as an everyday name.
Leona, Gertrude and Lorraine…the most interesting way I could think of to combine them was to look for names that feature their first letters (L, G, L) such as Nigella, Allegra and Gillian.
Here are a few other name ideas that came to mind:
Acacia Adelaide Amandine Anais Anneliese Antonia Aquila Artemis Astrid Augusta
Muriel Nelle Penelope Petra Sophronia Sunniva Theodosia/Theda Thora Venetia Vera
Some are related to the family names Lisa mentioned (e.g. Adelaide/Alice, Sophronia/Sophia).
Which of the above names do you like best for the sister of Copeland? What other names would you suggest to Lisa?
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