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Popular baby names in Saskatchewan (Canada), 2012

Flag of Saskatchewan
Flag of Saskatchewan

The most popular baby names in Saskatchewan were announced last week.

According to the ISC’s Vital Statistics registry, Saskatchewan’s top names are Liam for boys and Emma for girls.

Here are the province’s top 20 girl names and top 20 boy names of 2012:

Baby Girl NamesBaby Boy Names
1. Emma
2. Olivia
3. Ava
4. Emily
5. Brooklyn
6. Lily
7. Sophia
8. Abigail
9. Ella
10. Sophie [2-way tie]
11. Avery [2-way tie]
12. Madison [2-way tie]
13. Elizabeth [2-way tie]
14. Chloe
15. Hailey
16. Isabella
17. Aubree [2-way tie]
18. Aubrey [2-way tie]
19. Brielle
20. Harper [4-way tie]
21. Alexis [4-way tie]
22. Amelia [4-way tie]
23. Addison [4-way tie]		1. Liam
2. Ethan
3. Carter
4. William
5. Mason
6. Lucas [3-way tie]
7. Noah [3-way tie]
8. Hudson [3-way tie]
9. Jacob
10. Owen
11. Benjamin
12. Alexander
13. Hunter
14. Jack
15. Ryder [2-way tie]
16. Dominic [2-way tie]
17. Aiden
18. Blake
19. Logan
20. Bentley

Gone from the top 20 are Leah, Mya, Sadie and Taylor (for girls) and Caleb, Chase, Cole, Hayden, James, Joshua and Matthew (for boys).

Here are Saskatchewan’s most popular baby names of 2011. (Manitoba, too!)

Sources: Emma and Liam 2012’s top baby names in Saskatchewan, again, ISC – Most Popular Baby Names

Image: Adapted from Flag of Saskatchewan (public domain)

Mason Dixon: Good baby name?

An Ann Landers column from 1995 featured a letter from one Mrs. Dixon, whose husband wanted to name their child Mason — “Mason Dixon” (as in, the Mason-Dixon line).

“I’m afraid our son would be made fun of throughout his life,” Mrs. Dixon said.

Ann agreed: “I’m on your side. To saddle a child with the name Mason Dixon would surely make him a lifelong butt of jokes.”

The reader responses printed a few months later, though, tended to be more supportive.

  • From Rose Rose: “I attribute my sense of humor to the fact that I had such an unusual name.”
  • From Mason Dickson: “Go for it. I’ve had a lot of fun with this name, and people always remember me.”
  • From Janice Mason Jarr, formerly Janice Mason Dixon: “No great improvement.”

Where do you stand on the name Mason Dixon — thumbs up or thumbs down?

Source: “Unusual name is just fine.” Portsmouth Daily Times 19 Jun. 1995: B4.

Popular baby names in Manitoba & Saskatchewan (Canada), 2011

Liam was the most popular baby boy name in both Manitoba and Saskatchewan last year. The other top names in the neighboring Canadian provinces were…

Manitoba:

Boy NamesGirl Names
1. Liam
2. Ethan
3. Noah
4. Logan
5. Lucas
6. Benjamin
7. Mason
8. Jayden
9. Carter
10. Jacob/Alexander [tie]		1. Olivia
2. Ava
3. Emily
4. Sophia
5. Emma
6. Hailey/Sophie [tie]
7. Chloe/Isabella [tie]
8. Lily
9. Brooklyn
10. Abigail/Ella [tie]

Saskatchewan:

Boy NamesGirl Names
1. Liam
2. Jacob
3. Ethan
4. Mason
5. Lucas
6. Hunter
7. Noah
8. William
9. Carter
10. Cole		1. Emma
2. Ava
3. Sophia
4. Olivia
5. Chloe
6. Emily
7. Hailey
8. Lily
9. Ella
10. Abigail

Sources: Sask. most popular baby names released, Liam top baby name in ‘Toba

What was River Phoenix’s birth name?

River Bottom. Really! The family’s original surname was Bottom.

River Jude Bottom was born in a log cabin in Oregon in 1970. His parents named him River after the “river of life” in Herman Hesse’s Siddhartha. His middle name came from the Beatles song “Hey Jude.”

After the family joined and then left a religious cult, they “changed their name to Phoenix, after the mythical bird that rises from its own ashes” to symbolize their new beginning.

Sources:

  • Boyd, Blanche McCrary. “Ahead of the Pack.” Premiere Apr. 1988.
  • Wake, Jacqueline. “Face of the Day.” Herald [Glasgow] 20 Jul. 2000: 40.