How popular is the baby name Jacob 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 Jacob.
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The vowely name Taio started popping up in the U.S. baby name data in the early 2010s:
2013: 8 baby boys named Taio
2012: 6 baby boys named Taio
2011: 8 baby boys named Taio [debut]
2010: unlisted
2009: unlisted
Where did it come from?
British singer/songwriter Taio Cruz.
Taio’s full name is Jacob Taio Cruz, though that’s not his original name. His name at birth was Adetayo Ayowale Onile-Ere. (His father is Nigerian and his mother is Brazilian.)
His second album, Rokstarr (2009), was particularly successful in the U.S. The single “Break Your Heart” (feat. Ludacris) reached #1 on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart in March of 2010, and the single “Dynamite” reached #2 the following August.
Rapper Ludacris name-checked Taio in his verse for “Break Your Heart,” which Taio appreciated:
Luda’s verse helped Cruz clarify just how to pronounce his first name correctly. “He put my name in there, which is great — so people know to pronounce it now properly, hopefully,” Taio (pronounced “Tie-O”) said.
Apparently that wasn’t enough, though, because Taio felt the need to call his third album TY.O (2011) — a phonetic rendering of “Taio.”
But even this didn’t solve the problem. Here’s what he said during an interview in Australia in 2012:
“Everyone gets my name wrong which is quite funny cause it’s really two syllables long, it’s quite short,” he laughed, before demonstrating some of the more creative interpretations of his name.
“I think it’s because there’s so many vowels in my name.”
Do you like the name Taio? If you were going to use it for your own child, how would you spell it?
New York City, located in southeastern New York state, is the most populous city in the United States.
In 2021, New York City welcomed 99,262 babies — 48,648 girls and 50,614 boys.
What were the most popular names among these babies? Emma and Liam.
Here are New York City’s top 10 girl names and top 10 boy names of 2021:
Girl Names
Emma, 434 baby girls
Olivia
Mia
Sophia
Leah
Ava
Isabella
Amelia
Luna
Sofia
Boy Names
Liam, 703 baby boys
Noah
Ethan
Lucas
Jacob
Joseph
David
Daniel
Aiden
Benjamin
In the girls’ top 10, Luna and Sofia replaced Sarah and Chloe.
In the boys’ top 10, Benjamin replaced Alexander.
Names in the top 100 included: Grace, Lily, Violet, Aurora, Angel, Ruby, Rose, Harper, Axel, Melody, Summer, Serenity, Iris, Autumn, Jade, Chase, August, Angelina, Ivy, Eden, Goldy, Daisy, Journey, and Faith. (Genders weren’t specified, but most of these look like girl names to me.)
A few days ago, I stumbled upon a set of baby name data for Austin, Texas, for the year 2017. While it isn’t current, it does seem to be complete — so it includes hundreds of rare and single-use names (which are always fascinating!).
The data accounts for nearly 19,900 births (9,733 girls and 10,163 boys), and features nearly 6,100 names (3,431 given to girls, 2,656 given to boys).
According to this data, which comes from the City of Austin’s Open Data Portal, the top baby names in the capital of Texas five years ago were Emma and James.
Here are Austin’s top 50 girl names and top 50 boy names of 2017:
Girl Names
Emma, 98 baby girls
Isabella, 88
Olivia, 84
Mia, 81
Evelyn, 77
Sophia, 75
Ava, 73
Abigail, 59 (tie)
Charlotte, 59 (tie)
Emily, 58
Camila, 56 (tie)
Elizabeth, 56 (tie)
Harper, 53
Amelia, 52
Penelope, 51 (tie)
Sofia, 51 (tie)
Scarlett, 46
Ella, 45
Avery, 43 (tie)
Zoe, 43 (tie)
Lillian, 41
Layla, 40 (tie)
Madison, 40 (tie)
Eleanor, 39
Victoria, 38
Allison, 37
Claire, 36 (3-way tie)
Elena, 36 (3-way tie)
Luna, 36 (3-way tie)
Aria, 35 (tie)
Chloe, 35 (tie)
Ellie, 34 (tie)
Katherine, 34 (tie)
Samantha, 33
Hannah, 30 (4-way tie)
Hazel, 30 (4-way tie)
Mila, 30 (4-way tie)
Stella, 30 (4-way tie)
Leah, 29
Cora, 28 (5-way tie)
Genesis, 28 (5-way tie)
Grace, 28 (5-way tie)
Natalie, 28 (5-way tie)
Ximena, 28 (5-way tie)
Clara, 27 (3-way tie)
Eliana, 27 (3-way tie)
Ruby, 27 (3-way tie)
Audrey, 26 (tie)
Sarah, 26 (tie)
Alexa, 25 (3-way tie)
Everly, 25 (3-way tie)
Lily, 25 (3-way tie)
Boy Names
James, 104 baby boys
Noah, 85
Daniel, 83
Benjamin, 82
William, 80
Oliver, 75
Liam, 74
Alexander, 73
Sebastian, 70
Henry, 67
Elijah, 66 (tie)
Mateo, 66 (tie)
Ethan, 65
Jackson, 63
Anthony, 61
Jacob, 60
Aiden, 59 (tie)
Luke, 59 (tie)
David, 58 (tie)
Samuel, 58 (tie)
John, 56
Isaac, 55 (tie)
Julian, 55 (tie)
Michael, 54
Charles, 53 (3-way tie)
Jack, 53 (3-way tie)
Matthew, 53 (3-way tie)
Jose, 52 (tie)
Joshua, 52 (tie)
Wyatt, 50
Aaron, 49 (4-way tie)
Grayson, 49 (4-way tie)
Joseph, 49 (4-way tie)
Levi, 49 (4-way tie)
Dylan, 48
Hudson, 47
Josiah, 46 (3-way tie)
Logan, 46 (3-way tie)
Santiago, 46 (3-way tie)
Jayden, 45
Nathan, 44
Christopher, 43 (tie)
Thomas, 43 (tie)
Andrew, 42 (4-way tie)
Gabriel, 42 (4-way tie)
Luis, 42 (4-way tie)
Owen, 42 (4-way tie)
Lucas, 41
Adrian, 40 (3-way tie)
Axel, 40 (3-way tie)
Christian, 40 (3-way tie)
On the girls’ list, Allison caught my eye. It ranked 26th in Austin in 2017, but 61st nationally the same year. Interesting.
Further down on the boys’ list was Austin itself, in 95th place — vs. 75th nationally — with 21 baby boys. Much further down was Texas, with 2 baby boys.
And now it’s time for the unique names!
One-of-a-kind names were given to 24% of the baby girls and 17% of the baby boys born in Austin in 2017. Here’s a sampling of the names that were bestowed just once:
Some possible explanations/associations for a few of the above:
Cadeau is the French word for “present, gift.”
Ceiba is a type of tree.
Tsumugi Shirogane is a character from the 2017 video game Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony.
Ynafets is “Stefany” spelled backwards.
Bruges is the capital of West Flanders (a province of Belgium).
Mistral is a strong late-winter wind in southern France.
The Rigveda is a sacred Hindu text.
I’ve never posted rankings for Austin before, but I have posted rankings recently for two nearby Texas cities: Houston (which is more than twice the size of Austin, population-wise) and College Station (which is about an eighth of the size of Austin).
Last year, England and Wales welcomed close to 625,000 babies.
What were the most popular names among these babies? Olivia and Noah.
Here are England and Wales’ top 50 girl names and top 50 boy names of 2021:
Girl Names
Olivia, 3,649 baby girls
Amelia, 3,164
Isla, 2,683
Ava, 2,576
Ivy, 2,245
Freya, 2,187
Lily, 2,182
Florence, 2,180
Mia, 2,168
Willow, 2,067
Rosie, 2,028
Sophia, 2,019
Isabella, 2,010
Grace, 1,992
Daisy, 1,873
Sienna, 1,869
Poppy, 1,841
Elsie, 1,840
Emily, 1,797
Ella, 1,756
Evelyn, 1,729
Phoebe, 1,678
Sofia, 1,671
Evie, 1,670
Charlotte, 1,654
Harper, 1,480
Millie, 1,472
Matilda, 1,437
Maya, 1,433
Sophie, 1,375
Alice, 1,359
Emilia, 1,353
Isabelle, 1,304
Ruby, 1,300
Luna, 1,261
Maisie, 1,229
Aria, 1,202
Penelope, 1,194
Mila, 1,133
Bonnie, 1,121
Eva, 1,091
Hallie, 1,070
Eliza, 1,064
Ada, 1,058
Violet, 1,057
Esme, 1,013
Arabella, 1,012
Imogen, 998
Jessica, 997
Delilah, 981
Boy Names
Noah, 4,525 baby boys
Oliver, 4,167
George, 4,141
Arthur, 3,766
Muhammad, 3,722
Leo, 3,465
Harry, 3,089
Oscar, 3,071
Archie, 2,928
Henry, 2,912
Theodore, 2,889
Freddie, 2,873
Jack, 2,847
Charlie, 2,674
Theo, 2,514
Alfie, 2,338
Jacob, 2,319
Thomas, 2,302
Finley, 2,283
Arlo, 2,154
William, 2,093
Lucas, 1,965
Roman, 1,923
Tommy, 1,901
Isaac, 1,888
Teddy, 1,875
Alexander, 1,830
Luca, 1,807
Edward, 1,806
James, 1,772
Joshua, 1,737
Albie, 1,729
Elijah, 1,657
Max, 1,650
Mohammed, 1,619
Reuben, 1,534
Mason, 1,517
Sebastian, 1,516
Rory, 1,483
Jude, 1,482
Louie, 1,461
Benjamin, 1,423
Ethan, 1,398
Adam, 1,367
Hugo, 1,325
Joseph, 1,307
Reggie, 1,287
Ronnie, 1,285
Harrison, 1,254
Louis, 1,240
Two of the names that saw marked increases in usage last year, Luca and Raya, were helped along by the animated films Luca (2021) and Raya and the Last Dragon (2021).
And the name Lilibet re-surfaced in the data (after a seven-year absence) with eight baby girls, no doubt thanks to the royal influence of Prince Harry’s daughter Lilibet, who was born in California in June of 2021.
England’s nine regions
Home to nearly 56.5 million people, England is divided into nine regions. The top baby names within each of these regions last year were…
Boy names: Osian, Elis, Macsen, Cai, Morgan, Gruffydd, Rhys
Now it’s time for a selection of names from the other end of the spectrum. Each of the rare names below was given to just 3 babies in England and Wales in 2021:
P.S. The ongoing rise of the baby name Mabel accelerated in the late 2010s thanks to mononymous English singer/songwriter Mabel — who just so happens to be the niece of Eagle-Eye Cherry.
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