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According to data from Ireland’s Central Statistics Office (CSO), the most popular baby names in the country in 2019 were — yet again! — Emily and Jack.
Here are Ireland’s top 10 girl names and top 10 boy names of 2019:
Girl Names
Emily, 452 baby girls
Grace, 426
Fiadh, 334
Sophie, 330
Hannah, 321
Amelia, 315
Ava, 313 (tie)
Ellie, 313 (tie)
Ella, 292
Mia, 289
Boy Names
Jack, 677 baby boys
James, 534
Noah, 502
Conor, 427
Daniel, 399
Adam, 345
Liam, 334
Tadhg, 318
Luke, 317
Charlie, 316
Jack has been the top boy name since 2007 (with the exception of 2016) and Emily has been the top girl name since 2011.
In the girls’ top 10, Hannah returned and Emma dropped out.
In the boys’ top 10, Liam and Tadhg (pronounced tyeg, like the first syllable of “tiger”) replaced Harry and Michael.
The fastest-rising names in the top 100 in terms of numbers of babies were:
If you’re on the hunt for baby names with a numerological value of 8, you’re in luck! Because today’s post features hundreds of 8-names.
Before we get to the names, though — how do we know that they’re “eights” in numerology?
Turning names into numbers
Here’s how to calculate the numerological value of a name.
First, for each letter, come up with a number to represent that letter’s position in the alphabet. (Letter A would be number 1, letter B would be number 2, and so forth.) Then, add all the numbers together. If the sum has two or more digits, add the digits together recursively until the result is a single digit. That single digit is the name’s numerological value.
For instance, the letters in the name Wyatt correspond to the numbers 23, 25, 1, 20, and 20. The sum of these numbers is 89. The digits of 89 added together equal 17, and the digits of 17 added together equal 8 — the numerological value of Wyatt.
Baby names with a value of 8
Below you’ll find the most popular 8-names per gender, according to the latest U.S. baby name data. I’ve further sub-categorized them by total sums — just in case any of those larger numbers are significant to anyone.
8
The letters in the following baby names add up to 8.
Girl name (8)
Boy name (8)
Bea
Abe
8 via 17
The letters in the following baby names add up to 17, which reduces to eight (1+7=8).
Girl names (8 via 17)
Boy names (8 via 17)
Gia, Bo, Afia, Eabha, Cala
Bo, Mac, Cam, Md, Jeb
8 via 26
The letters in the following baby names add up to 26, which reduces to eight (2+6=8).
Girl names (8 via 26)
Boy names (8 via 26)
Leah, Maci, Jana, Pia, Dua, Gema, Calia, Brea, Cami
Eli, Bear, Bode, Obed, Asaad, Adil
8 via 35
The letters in the following baby names add up to 35, which reduces to eight (3+5=8).
There’s no definitive answer, unfortunately, because various numerological systems exist, and each one has its own interpretation of the number eight. That said, if we look at a couple of modern numerology/astrology websites, we see 8 being described as “successful,” “ambitious,” “organized,” “practical,” and “authoritative.”
We can also look at associations, which are a bit more concrete. Here are some things that are associated with the number 8:
Figure 8
Infinity symbol
Analemma (diagram showing the position of the sun over the course of a year)
Figure-eight knot
Octopus (8 arms)
Spider (8 legs)
8-bit computing
8-track cartridge
Eight-ball (in pool)
Magic 8 Ball (fortune-telling toy)
Eight-ender (perfect score in the sport of curling)
What does the number 8 mean to you? What are your strongest associations with the number?
P.S. To see names with other numerological values, check out the posts for the numbers one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and nine.
According to data released yesterday by Ireland’s Central Statistics Office (CSO), the most popular baby names in the country in 2016 were Emily and James.
Here are Ireland’s top 10 girl names and top 10 boy names of 2016:
Girl Names
Emily, 490 baby girls
Grace, 452 (up from 8th to 2nd)
Ava, 388 (2-way tie)
Lucy, 388 (2-way tie)
Amelia, 369 (2-way tie)
Sophie, 369 (2-way tie)
Emma, 365 (down from 2nd to 7th)
Mia, 357
Hannah, 351 (new)
Lily, 334 (new)
Boy Names
James, 688 baby boys (new #1 name; replaced Jack)
Jack, 684
Daniel, 558 (2-way tie)
Conor, 558 (2-way tie)
Sean, 501
Noah, 446
Adam, 400
Oisin, 398 (new)
Michael, 394
Luke, 375
Some quick facts about the girl names…
Newbies to the top 10: Hannah, Lily
Newbies to the top 100: Aria, Harper, Heidi, Matilda, Willow, Zoey
Late last year, Lufthansa tried “to attract more Swedes to its flights” (and away from competitors’ flights) with a crazy marketing campaign.
What was so crazy about the campaign?
The name change contest.
The winner of the contest would get to live in Berlin for free for an entire year. He or she would get a flight to the city from Sweden, several more domestic flights within Germany (“so you can see all of your new homeland”), a fully furnished apartment, German language lessons, food vouchers, a bike, a Berlin WelcomeCard (for public transportation and entrance to museums), and more — all for free.
To enter the contest in the first place, though, this person would have to have changed his/her legal name to include the “very German” Klaus-Heidi.
Magnus Engvall, the Lufthansa marketing specialist running the competition, explains that it’s as if, translated for an American audience, Lufthansa was asking you to change your name to Jack-Barbara.
Proof of the name change, plus an essay, needed to be submitted to Lufthansa sometime between mid-October, when the contest began, and mid-November, when it ended.
Only a handful of entries were expected, but — thanks to Sweden’s notoriously liberal name-changing laws — dozens began pouring in. Lufthansa shut the contest down early, but not before 42 people entered, 9 on the very first day.
The 42 Swedes who changed their names to Klaus-Heidi ranged in age from 19 to 69. About 70% were male and 30% were female. Half were from Sweden’s capital city, Stockholm.
The winner of the contest, chosen because he’d creatively submitted a poem in place of an essay, was 24-year-old Michael Eric Klaus-Heidi Andersson (originally Michael Eric Andersson) from the village of Fjugesta. His “new life in Berlin” began in January of 2014.
The 41 other Klaus-Heidis didn’t walk away empty-handed, though. Each was awarded status in Lufthansa’s frequent flyer program and 60,000 free miles.
Now for the question of the day: If you were a Swede, would you have entered this contest?
Images: From Lufthansa’s “Are You Klaus-Heidi?” marketing campaign
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