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Popularity of the baby name Emilie


Posts that mention the name Emilie

The Dionne quintuplets…and their 9 other siblings

dionne family
Most of the Dionne family

The Dionne quintuplets — the first set of quints known to survive infancy — were born in Ontario, Canada, on May 28, 1934. But identical sisters Yvonne, Annette, Cecile, Emilie and Marie weren’t the only children in the Dionne family. Over the course of 20 years, parents Oliva-Edouard and Elzire Dionne had a total of 14 children — 6 before the quints, 3 after.

Here are the names and birth years of all 14:

  1. Ernest (1926)
  2. Rose (1928)
  3. Therese (1929)
  4. Leo (1930)
  5. Daniel (1932)
  6. Pauline (1933)
  7. * Yvonne (1934)
  8. * Annette (1934)
  9. * Cecile (1934)
  10. * Emilie (1934)
  11. * Marie (1934)
  12. Oliva Jr. (1936)
  13. Victor (1938)
  14. Claude (1946)

Which of these names do you like most?

Sources: Dionne Quintuplets – Wikipedia, The Story of the Dionne Quintuplets

Chester Arthur namesake disinherited

This story involves politics, the law, and a whole lot of Hamburgers.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Hamburger lived in New York during the mid-to-late 1800s. They had five children: Frank, Minnie, Emilie, Josephine and Otto.

Now, Charles was a life-long Democrat. So was his son Frank. But the woman Frank married was a Republican and, in 1880, she was able to convince Frank to name their newborn son Arthur Chester Hamburger after vice presidential candidate Chester Arthur.

This name did not please Grandpa Hamburger, who “was worth about $300,000.” So, in 1882, he wrote a will that left thousands to everyone…except for little Arthur Chester. “[T]he old gentleman, still outraged at the name given to Frank’s child by its mother, left it $50 for the purpose of showing that it was not left out of the will by accident.”

By 1887, Grandpa Hamburger had passed away, Frank had passed away, and Frank’s widow was in court trying to squeeze money out of the Hamburger estate for her disinherited child. As far as I can tell, she was unsuccessful.

Source: “Disinherited for his name.” New York Times 24 June 1887: 3.

P.S. How do you like the name “Minnie Hamburger”?

Popular baby names in Norway, 2010

Flag of Norway
Flag of Norway

The top baby girl and baby boy names in Norway last year were Emma and Lukas — the same as in 2009.

Here are the top ten girl names:

  1. Emma (465 baby girls)
  2. Linnea/Linea (452)
  3. Sara/Sahra/Sarah (426)
  4. Sofie/Sophie (423)
  5. Nora/Norah (411)
  6. Ingrid/Ingerid/Ingri (399)
  7. Thea/Tea (389)
  8. Emilie (387)
  9. Ida (381)
  10. Maja/Maia/Maya (353)

And here are the top ten boy names:

  1. Lukas/Lucas (552 baby boys)
  2. Emil (492)
  3. Mathias/Matias (491)
  4. William (443)
  5. Magnus (435)
  6. Markus/Marcus (428)
  7. Jonas (423)
  8. Kristian/Christian (400)
  9. Oliver (384)
  10. Alexander/Aleksander (380)

And here are a few other interesting facts:

  • 52% of the girls born in 2010 have names that end with -a or -ah.
  • 20% of the boys born in 2010 have biblical names.
  • Mohammad was the most popular baby boy name in Oslo.
  • Norwegian parents seem to be “avoiding names involving the uniquely Norwegian letters of æ, ø and å, which often cause problems and confusion in e-mail addresses and other aspects of a globalized society.”

That last point is particularly interesting. On the one hand, it’s cool that parents are gravitating toward names that will make their children’s lives simpler. On the other, names featuring Scandinavian letters like æ, ø and å represent Norway’s heritage, and it would a shame to see cultural gems like Bjørn and Jørgen fall by the wayside. (Though perhaps it’s inevitable…?)

Sources: Statistics Norway, ‘Emma’ and ‘Lukas’ most popular baby names

Image: Adapted from Flag of Norway (public domain)