How popular is the baby name Carlisle 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 Carlisle.
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Avast! Did you know that today is Talk Like a Pirate Day?
“Arrr” itself doesn’t make a great name — even for pirates — but here’s the next best thing: over 120 names that feature the “ar”-sound.
Which of the “ar”-names above do you like best? Did I miss any good ones?
Additions, 9/20:
If you’re looking for a car name — or you’re a car-lover looking for a baby name — here’s a fun little list for you: names that contain the word “car.” :)
Want to see more names for cars?
We talked about a baby named Jenson not long ago, and now here’s a Jensen.
Amanda and Stephen Preston of Lancashire, England, welcomed a son in late January, 2011. He was named Jensen after Brian Jensen, goalkeeper of the Burnley football (a.k.a. soccer) team. But that’s not all! He was named after each of the other players on the team as well.
Stephen said, “We had already decided to call him Jensen as he is Amanda’s favourite player, but we couldn’t decide on a middle name so we thought why not go for the whole team.”
Here are all of the baby’s given names, and the corresponding Burnley players:
| Name | Player |
| Jensen Jay Alexander Bikey Carlisle Duff Elliot Fox Iwelumo Marney Mears Paterson Thompson Wallace | Brian Jensen Jay Rodriguez Graham Alexander Andre Bikey Clarke Carlisle Michael Duff Wade Elliott Danny Fox Chris Iwelumo Dean Marney Tyrone Mears Martin Paterson Steven Thompson Ross Wallace |
If the baby had been a girl, the only difference would have been Briany instead of Jensen for the first name.
Source: Preston: The baby named after all FOURTEEN members of football team
[The article also mentions a baby boy born in 2009 and named Robbie-Blake Moore, “after Robbie Blake’s winning goal against Manchester United in the Premier League.”]
Though vast majority of the baby names on the Social Security Administration’s yearly baby name lists are repeats, every list does contain a handful of brand-new names.
Below are the highest-charting debut names for every single year on record, after the first.
Why bother with an analysis like this? Because debut names often have cool stories behind them, and high-hitting debuts are especially likely to have intriguing explanations tied to historical people/events. So this is more than a list of names — it’s also a list of stories.
Here’s the format: “Girl name(s), number of baby girls; Boy name(s), number of baby boys.” Keep in mind that the raw numbers aren’t too trustworthy for about the first six decades, though. (More on that in a minute.)
This is where the numbers start becoming more accurate. Why? Because “many people born before 1937 never applied for a Social Security card, so their names are not included in our data.” (SSA)
Now back to the list:
I’ve already written about some of the names above, and I plan to write about all the others as well…eventually. In the meanwhile, if you want to beat me to it and leave a comment about why Maverick hit in 1957, or why Moesha hit in 1996, feel free!
*If you ignore the Great Baby Name Glitch of 1989, the top debut names of 1989 are actually Audreanna and Khiry.
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Hundreds of unisex names were given to both baby boys and baby girls last year. But only 65 were split evenly between the two genders, according to SSA data.
| Name | Boys | Girls | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michel | 55 | 55 | 110 |
| Michal | 48 | 48 | 96 |
| Storm | 43 | 43 | 86 |
| Haydyn | 32 | 32 | 64 |
| Avry | 27 | 27 | 54 |
| Adi | 26 | 26 | 52 |
| Indiana | 26 | 26 | 52 |
| Kemani | 26 | 26 | 52 |
| Clarke | 22 | 22 | 44 |
| Riyan | 20 | 20 | 40 |
| Samar | 17 | 17 | 34 |
| Amori | 16 | 16 | 32 |
| Bradie | 13 | 13 | 26 |
| Carlisle | 12 | 12 | 24 |
| Oluwadamilola | 12 | 12 | 24 |
| Angell | 11 | 11 | 22 |
| Eaden | 11 | 11 | 22 |
| Maika | 11 | 11 | 22 |
| Nur | 11 | 11 | 22 |
| Chesley | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Dacoda | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Mattia | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Fewer than 20 babies total: Agam, Aidynn, Amadi, Armahni, Arrington, Ecko, Elim, Elyah, Grae, Jarae, Jasyiah, Jiayi, Keighan, Kumari, Lakshya, Lanny, Lean, Mako, Marcelle, Money*, Nyel, Oluwanifemi, Oluwatomisin, Omega, Phynix, Psalm, Qamar, Rayen, Reyhan, Ryian, Santanna, Shadow, Shyler, Siah, Sinclair, Skiler, Starling, Stellar, Thanh, Ugonna, Windsor, Yali, Yareth
*I’m pleased that Money made the list. There may be a gender-based income gap in the U.S., but at least men and women are named Money in equal measure. That has to count for something, right?