How popular is the baby name Jacques in the United States right now? How popular was it historically? Use the popularity graph and data table below to find out! Plus, see all the blog posts that mention the name Jacques.
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In late 2007, Greenpeace held a competition to name one of the humpback whales it was tracking in the South Pacific Ocean.
After gathering over 11,000 name suggestions from people across the globe, the organization narrowed the field down to 30 contenders:
Aiko
Amal
Anahi
Atticus
Aurora
Babu
Bumi
Cian
Echo
Gana
Humphrey
Jacques
Kaimana
Kigai
Libertad
Madiba
Malaya
Manami
Mira
Mister Splashy Pants
Moya
Nurani
Paikea
Paz
Sedna
Shanti
Suzuki
Talei
Veikko
Yarrindi
When the polls opened, the rule was one vote per person. But things didn’t go as planned.
An anonymous voter in Arizona disabled cookies on his/her computer and was able to cast thousands of votes for Mister Splashy Pants early on.
This attracted the attention of various websites (Digg, Reddit, BoingBoing, Fark, etc.) which led to even more votes for Mister Splashy Pants.
Mister Splashy Pants ended up winning by a landslide, with over 78% of the vote. In second place was Humphrey, with less than 3%.
So let’s play a game — let’s pretend Greenpeace had taken “Mister Splashy Pants” out of the running mid-competition. Out of the 29 remaining names, which one would you have voted for?
P.S. Here’s another memorable name chosen via online poll: Boaty McBoatface.
Which baby names are the most disproportionately popular in each U.S. state?
Name blog Republic of Names has your answer — a bunch of cool lists of the most distinctive baby names by state. Here are some highlights for about half of the states.
In Alabama:
Crimson – Crimson Tide is the University of Alabama football team.
Krimson
In Alaska:
Aurora
Denali – Denali (Mount McKinley) in Alaska is North America’s highest peak.
McKinley
In Arizona:
Ariza
Helios
Nizhoni – Nizhóní is a Navajo word meaning “it/he/she is pretty/beautiful.”
Autzen – Autzen Stadium is where the Oregon Ducks football team plays.
Avenir – Avenir is a French word meaning “future.” It’s also on the Washington state list below. In fact, nearly two-thirds of last year’s Avenirs were born on the west coast: 10 in Washington, 7 in California, 5 in Oregon. Anyone know why?
Brazos – Brazos is a Spanish word meaning “arms.” The Brazos River in Texas was originally called Rio de los Brazos de Dios, or “River of the Arms of God.”
In Utah:
Korver – Kyle Korver played pro basketball in Utah.
Malta’s top baby names of 2013 came out a few weeks ago.
According to data from the National Statistics Office, the most popular name-groups last year were Elena/Elenia/Helena/Ella and Luke/Luca/Lucas.
Here are Malta’s top 20 girl name-groups and top 20 boy name-groups of 2013:
Girl Names
Elena/Elenia/Helena/Ella, 106 baby girls (5.5% of all girls)
Eliza/Elisa/Elizabeth/Elise, 78
Julia/Yulia/Julianne, 69
Emma/Emmanuela/Ema, 51
Maya/Mia/Myah, 47
Maria/Marija/Mariah/Marie, 42
Lea/Leah/Leia, 37
Martina/Martine, 36
Christina/Christa/Christabel/Krystle, 35
Kailey/Kai/Kaleigh, 34 (3-way tie)
Catherine/Katrina/Kate/Katya, 34 (3-way tie)
Emilia/Emily/Emelie, 34 (3-way tie)
Amy/Aimee, 32
Anna/Hannah/Ann, 31
Mikela/Makaila/Michelle, 27 (tie)
Alison/Alice/Alicia/Alyssa/Aly, 27 (tie)
Sophia/Sophie, 26
Jade/Giada, 22 (tie)
Alexandra/Alessia/Alexia/Lexi, 22 (tie)
Aaliyah/Alaya, 21
Chloe/Khloe, 20 (3-way tie)
Amber/Amberley, 20 (3-way tie)
Karla/Carla/Carly, 20 (3-way tie)
Jasmine/Yasmine/Yasmeen, 17 (3-way tie)
Nina, 17 (3-way tie)
Faith, 17 (3-way tie)
Hailey/Hailee/Hayleigh, 16
Nicole/Nicola/Nicky, 14 (4-way tie)
Rachel/Raquel, 14 (4-way tie)
Keira/Kyra, 14 (4-way tie)
Claire/Clara/Clarisse, 14 (4-way tie)
Boy Names
Luke/Luca/Lucas, 106 baby boys (5% of all boys)
Matthew/Matthias/Matteo, 93
Jacob/Jake, 70
Zachary/Zak/Zack, 56
John/Jean/Jonathan/Juan/Gan, 53 (tie)
Michael/Miguel/Mikhail, 53 (tie)
Andrew/Andreas/Andre/Andy, 46
Kaiden/Kayden/Kai, 45 (tie)
Alexander/Alessandro/Alec, 45 (tie)
Aiden/Ayden, 43
Liam/William, 42
Nicholas/Nick/Nicolai, 41
Benjamin/Ben, 40
Daniel/Dan/Danil, 33
Isaac/Izaak, 32 (tie)
Mason/Maison, 32 (tie)
Jack/Jackson/Jacques, 30
Jaden/Jayden/Jadon, 29 (tie)
Thomas/Tommas/Tommy, 29 (tie)
Nathan/Nathaniel, 28
Julian/Julien/Guiliano, 27
Gabriel/Gabrijel/Gabryl, 24 (tie)
Adam, 24 (tie)
Joseph/Beppe/Giuseppe/Josef, 23 (tie)
Noah, 23 (tie)
James/Jamie/Jayme, 22 (3-way tie)
Samuel/Sam, 22 (3-way tie)
Keiran/Kyran, 22 (3-way tie)
Some of the unusual names registered in Malta last year were Aizley, Amporn, Breeze, Chinenye, Coco, Delson, Diyas, Enonima, Freedom, Gundula, Jaceyrhaer, Kobbun, Limoni, Love, Netsrik, Summer, Symphony, Zarkareia and Zveyrone.
Malta’s 2012 list was topped by Eliza/Lisa/Elsie/Elyse/Bettina and Matthew/Matthias/Matteo.
The image above, of the Boulevard du Temple in Paris, was captured in early 1838 by Louis Daguerre, inventor of the daguerreotype.
It may be the earliest surviving photograph of a person. Two people, actually. Both are in the lower left.
Here’s a close-up:
The standing man is getting his shoe shined, and the other man (partially obscured) is doing the shoe-shining.
Of all the people on the sidewalk that day, these were the only two to stay still long enough (about 10 minutes) to be captured in the image.
Now for the fun part!
What would you name these two Frenchmen?
Let’s pretend you’re writing a book set in Paris in the 1830s, and these are two of your characters. What names would you give them?
Here’s a long list of traditional French male names, to get you started:
Abel Absolon Achille Adam Adolphe Adrien Aimé Alain Alban Albert Alexandre Alfred Alphonse Amaury Amroise Amédée Anatole André Anselme Antoine Antonin Apollinaire Ariel Aristide Armand Arnaud Arsène Arthur Aubert Aubin Auguste Augustin Aurèle Aurélien Baptiste Barnabé Barthélémy Basile Bastien Benjamin Benoit Bernard Bertrand Blaise Boniface Bruno Calixte Camille Céleste Célestin Césaire César Charles Christian Christophe
Clair Claude Clément Clovis Constant Constantin Corentin Corin Corneille Cosme Cyril Damien Daniel David Denis Déodat Désiré Didier Dieudonné Dimitri Diodore Dominique Donat Donatien Edgar Edgard Edmé Edmond Édouard Élie Eloi Émeric Émile Émilien Emmanuel Enzo Éric Ermenegilde Ernest Ethan Étienne Eugène Eustache Évariste Évrard Fabien Fabrice Félicien Félix Ferdinand Fernand Fiacre Firmin Florence Florent
Florentin Florian Francis François Frédéric Gabriel Gaël Gaëtan Gaspard Gaston Gaubert Geoffroy Georges Gérard Géraud Germain Gervais Ghislain Gilbert Gilles Gratien Grégoire Guatier Guillaume Gustave Guy Hector Henri Herbert Hercule Hervé Hilaire Hippolyte Honoré Horace Hubert Hugues Humbert Hyacinthe Ignace Irénée Isidore Jacques Jason Jean Jérémie Jérôme Joachim Jocelyn Joël Jonathan Joseph Josse Josué Jourdain
Jules Julien Juste Justin Laurent Laurentin Lazare Léandre Léo Léon Léonard Léonce Léonide Léopold Lionel Loïc Lothaire Louis Loup Luc Lucas Lucien Lucrèce Ludovic Maël Marc Marcel Marcellin Marin Marius Martin Mathieu Mathis Matthias Maurice Maxence Maxime Maximilien Michaël Michel Modeste Narcisse Nathan Nathanaël Nazaire Nicéphore Nicodème Nicolas Noé Noël Norbert Odilon Olivier Onésime Pascal
Patrice Paul Philippe Pierre Placide Pons Prosper Quentin Rainier Raoul Raphaël Raymond Régis Rémy René Reynaud Richard Robert Roch Rodolphe Rodrigue Roger Roland Romain Rosaire Ruben Salomon Samuel Sébastien Séraphin Serge Sévère Séverin Simon Sylvain Sylvestre Télesphore Théodore Théophile Thibault Thierry Thomas Timothée Toussaint Urbain Valentin Valère Valéry Vespasien Victor Vincent Vivien Xavier Yves Zacharie
For some real-life inspiration, here are lists of famous 19th century and 20th century French people, courtesy of Wikipedia. Notice that many of the Frenchman have double-barreled, triple-barreled, even quadruple-barreled given names. (Daguerre himself was named Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre.)
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