How popular is the baby name Eve 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 Eve.
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Here’s an interesting coincidence: A few years ago, I added the above image (a portion of a painting by Englishman Thomas M. M. Hemy) to a blog post about a baby named after the ship she was born on. Recently, I discovered that the artist’s full name is Thomas Maria Madawaska Hemy, and that “Madawaska” refers to the name of the ship he was born on!
His parents, Henri and Margaret Hemy, moved the family to Australia temporarily in the 1850s. On their way south aboard the Madawaska in 1852, they welcomed their sixth son, Thomas. Curiously, he was born “near the Brazilian coast.” (During the age of sail, routes weren’t as direct as they are today because sailors needed to utilize the prevailing winds.)
The Madawaska was a barque built in Quebec in 1847. “Madawaska” is the original name of the upper St. John River Valley, on the Canada-U.S. border. Several places in that region retain the name, including a county in New Brunswick and a town in northern Maine.
The etymology of Madawaska is unknown, but one theory holds that it derives from an Algonquin word meaning “place of the porcupine.”
Thomas M. M. Hemy — whose older brothers Charles Napier Hemy and Bernard Benedict Hemy were also marine artists — passed his unique middle name down to at least one of his children, daughter Eve Madawaska Hemy (b. 1880).
According to data from Ireland’s Central Statistics Office (CSO), the most popular baby names in the country last year were Fiadh and Jack.
Here are Ireland’s top 50 girl names and top 50 boy names of 2021:
Girl Names
Fiadh, 424 baby girls
Grace, 412
Emily, 388
Sophie, 336
Éabha, 288
Lucy, 287
Mia, 279
Ava, 272
Lily, 271
Ella, 268
Amelia, 265
Chloe, 243
Hannah, 238
Sophia, 234
Emma, 233
Ellie, 228
Isla, 226
Molly, 219 (3-way tie)
Olivia, 219 (3-way tie)
Sadie, 219 (3-way tie)
Anna, 209
Freya, 208
Evie, 190 (tie)
Saoirse, 190 (tie)
Caoimhe, 183
Ruby, 180
Robyn, 175
Kate, 172
Willow, 166
Sofia, 162
Holly, 160
Aoife, 159
Cara, 155
Róisín, 152
Katie, 150 (tie)
Sadhbh, 150 (tie)
Leah, 148 (tie)
Millie, 148 (tie)
Isabelle, 147
Alice, 138 (tie)
Clodagh, 138 (tie)
Zoe, 136
Sarah, 134
Erin, 132
Ada, 131
Annie, 129
Bonnie, 128
Charlotte, 122 (tie)
Layla, 122 (tie)
Rosie, 118
Boy Names
Jack, 667 baby boys
Noah, 475
James, 442
Conor, 360
Rían, 357
Liam, 353
Charlie, 345
Daniel, 325
Cillian, 322
Tadhg, 318
Michael, 310
Oisín, 302
Finn, 299
Fionn, 289
Thomas, 288
Seán, 274
Darragh, 273
Luke, 268
Patrick, 266
Harry, 264
Alex, 253
Adam, 237
Cian, 217
Theo, 210
Oliver, 208
Dylan, 205
Jamie, 203
John, 198
Leo, 192
Oscar, 189
Ollie, 187
Ben, 185
Tom, 181
Bobby, 179
Ryan, 172
Tommy, 171
Matthew, 170 (tie)
Max, 170 (tie)
Callum, 162
Sam, 161
Danny, 158
Aaron, 151
Alexander, 150
Alfie, 147 (tie)
Jake, 147 (tie)
Mason, 143
David, 141
Joseph, 139
Jacob, 137
Ethan, 135
In the girls’ top 10, Éabha and Lily replaced Amelia and Hannah. (In both 2019 and 2020, Éabha was the fastest-rising girl name in Ireland.)
In the boys’ top 10, Rían, Cillian, and Tadhg replaced Finn, Fionn, and Harry.
Newbies to the girls’ top 100 were Indie, Ayla and Lottie; newbies to the boys’ top 100 were Teddy, Daithí, Páidí, Jaxon, Brody, Ted, Hunter, Tadgh, Tiernan, and Arlo.
The fastest-rising names in the top 100 in terms of numbers of babies were:
Rían (which was already on the rise) and Croía have both given a boost recently by Irish MMA fighter Conor McGregor, who welcomed a daughter named Croía Mairéad at the start of 2019 and a son named Rían in May of 2021.
Here’s what writer and Irish language activist Darach Ó Séaghdha’s had to say about the rise of Rían (and Éabha):
Given that the first name Ryan started to decline in popularity in the 2010s around the time Rian and Rían began to ascend it is reasonable to see Rían as an update or replacement to Ryan, much as Éabha has climbed in popularity as Eve, Ava and Aoibhe have wavered.
He also noted that “Rían and Rian would be the [most popular] Gaeilge-origin boy name if counted together, edging ahead of Conor.”
P.S. To follow up on Friday’s post about the free lighthouse tour…the name Patrick is currently ranked 19th in Ireland, but none of the other three names (Paddy, Pat, or Patricia) rank anywhere near the top 100. That said, one of the names new to the boys’ top 100 last year was Páidí (pronounced paw-dee) — a pet form of Pádraig, which is an Irish form of Patrick.
Below are hundreds of baby names with a numerological value of 5.
What do I mean by that?
Well, in numerology, you substitute each letter in a word with that letter’s ordinal value in the alphabet. (The letter B has a value of 2, for instance, because it’s the second letter.) Then you add those ordinal values together to come up with a total. Lastly, you add the digits of that total together to obtain a numerological value.
Here’s an example: The letters in the name Mia have the values 13, 9, and 1. Added together, these values equal 23. And the digits of 23 added together equal 5.
All of the “5” names below are sub-categorized by totals — just in case any of those larger numbers are significant to anyone. Within each group you’ll find some of the most popular “5” names per gender (according to the most recent set of U.S. baby name rankings).
5 via 14
The letters in the following baby names add up to 14, which reduces to five (1+4=5).
Girl names (5 via 14)
Boy names (5 via 14)
Ida, Adah, Caia, Dia, Becca
Ahad, Adi, Dj, Kc, Jac
5 via 23
The letters in the following baby names add up to 23, which reduces to five (2+3=5).
Girl names (5 via 23)
Boy names (5 via 23)
Mia, Alia, Aila, Adela, Cara, Addie, Laia, Edie, Jaci, Ami
Caleb, Coda, Acen, Iam, Adem
5 via 32
The letters in the following baby names add up to 32, which reduces to five (3+2=5).
What does the number five mean in numerology? Unfortunately, there’s no clear answer. Various numerological systems exist, and each one has its own interpretation of the number five.
That said, if we look at a couple of modern numerology/astrology websites, we see 5 being described as “freedom-loving,” “dynamic,” “adaptable,” “curious,” and “unpredictable.”
Personally, I prefer to look at associations, which are a bit more concrete. Here are some things that are associated with the number 5:
Fingers
High-five (hand gesture)
Toes
Senses (sight, smell, touch, taste, hearing)
Tastes (sweet, salty, sour, bitter, umami)
Starfish (most starfish have 5 arms)
Basketball (5 players per side)
Olympic Games (symbolized by 5 interlocked rings)
Greek classical elements (water, earth, air, fire, aether)
Quintessence (refers to the fifth element, aether, which was a late addition to the list)
Chinese traditional elements (water, fire, earth, wood, metal)
What does the number 5 mean to you? What are your strongest associations with the number?
(To see names with other numerological values, check out the posts for the numbers one, two, three, four, six, seven, eight, and nine.)
In 1947, the baby name Ginna popped up for the first time in the U.S. baby name data:
1950: unlisted
1949: 5 baby girls named Ginna
1948: unlisted
1947: 5 baby girls named Ginna [debut]
1946: unlisted
Where did it come from?
The 1946 movie My Reputation, which included a secondary character named Ginna (played by actress Eve Arden). Her name was pronounced with a short i, like the “gin” in Virginia.
The movie’s protagonist, Jessica (played by Barbara Stanwyck), was a widow trying to find love again despite various pressures: her gossipy friends, her domineering mother, her teenage sons (named Kim and Keith, btw). Ginna was Jessica’s nice, non-gossipy friend.
Do you like the name Ginna? Do you like it more or less than the more popular name Gina?
(A few years before, Stanwyck played a character named Fiona who also influenced baby names…)
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