How popular is the baby name Madeline 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 Madeline.
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According to Cabin Radio, the most popular* baby names in the Canadian territory of Northwest Territories in 2019 were Zoey and Elias/John/Joseph/Michael (4-way tie).
Here are Northwest Territories’ top girl names and top boy names of 2019:
In 2018, the top names in NWT were Carter, John, Olivia, and Peyton (with 4 babies each). In 2015, the top names were Abigail and Liam. And in 2020, the very first baby born in NWT was named Axel.
If you’re on the hunt for baby names with a numerological value of 9, you’re in luck! Because today’s post features hundreds of 9-names.
Before we get to the names, though — how do we know that they’re “nines” 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 Rockwell correspond to the numbers 18, 15, 3, 11, 23, 5, 12, and 12. The sum of these numbers is 99. The digits of 99 added together equal 18, and the digits of 18 added together equal 9 — the numerological value of Rockwell.
Baby names with a value of 9
Below you’ll find the most popular 9-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.
9
The letters in the unisex baby name Ace add up to 9.
9 via 18
The letters in the following baby names add up to 18, which reduces to nine (1+8=9).
Girl names (9 via 18)
Boy names (9 via 18)
Lea, Gaia, Ela, Acacia, Addi
Can, Adal, Acie, Edi, Jag
9 via 27
The letters in the following baby names add up to 27, which reduces to nine (2+7=9).
There’s no definitive answer, unfortunately, because various numerological systems exist, and each one has its own interpretation of the number nine. That said, if we look at a couple of modern numerology/astrology websites, we see 9 being described as “humanitarian,” “tolerant,” “helpful,” “determined,” and “compassionate.”
We can also look at associations, which are a bit more concrete. Here are some things that are associated with the number 9:
Pregnancy (9 months long)
Baseball (9 players on the field; 9 innings)
K-9 (“canine”) police dog units
“Cloud nine” (expression)
“Nine lives” of a cat (expression)
“To the nines” (expression)
“The whole nine yards” (expression)
What does the number 9 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 eight.
Next Sunday in Rio de Janeiro, 30-year-old identical (and alliterative) triplets Leila, Liina, and Lily Luik of Estonia are expected to run the women’s marathon. This will make the “Trio in Rio,” as they call themselves, the first set of triplets to compete in an Olympics.
In comparison, about 200 sets of twins have competed in the Olympics over the years. Here are some of the Olympic twins with similarly alliterative names:
Åke & Arne (Sweden) – not technically alliterative; see JJ’s comment
Catarina & Christina (Sweden)
Darius & Donatas (Lithuania)
Darrin & Dan (USA)
Dennis & Duane (USA)
Dionísio & Domingos (Portugal)
Jean-Jacques & Jean-Marc (France)
Jodie & Julie (Canada)
Jules & Julian (Belgium)
Katalin & Krisztina (Hungary)
Katrine & Kristine (Norway)
Lívia & Lucia (Slovakia)
Madeline & Margaret (Puerto Rico)
Marianne & Mildred (Netherlands)
Sandy & Sonia (Zimbabwe)
Malcolm “Mal” & Melville “Mel” (Jamaica)
Mark & Michael (Canada)
Maureen & Melanie (Netherlands)
McJoe & McWilliams (Puerto Rico)
Mikuláš & Miloslav (Slovakia)
Pascal & Patrick (France)
Paula & Peta (Bermuda)
Paulo Miguel & Pedro Miguel (Portugal)
Pavol & Peter (Slovakia)
Randolph & Robert (USA)
Rhoda & Rhona (Canada)
Ricardo & Rodrigo (Chile)
Sharon & Shirley (Canada)
Stanley & Sydney (Great Britain)
Tami & Toni (USA)
Terry & Tom (USA)
Valeriy & Volodymyr (Ukraine)
Valj & Vita (Ukraine)
Veronika & Viktoriya (Belarus)
Vida & Vidette (South Africa)
Zlatko & Zoran (Yugoslavia)
You can see a full list of Olympic twins in the OlympStats post Twins at the Olympics.
Have you been tuning in to the Olympics? If so, have you spotted any interesting names so far?
The ratio of Biblical names to non-Biblical names in the girl’s top 20 is about the same today as it was 100 years ago, though the ratio did change a bit mid-century.
(In contrast, there’s been a steady increase in the number of Biblical-origin names among the top boy names.)
Here’s the color-coded table — Biblical names are in the yellow cells, non-Biblical names are in the green cells, and several borderline names (which I counted as non-Biblical) are in the orange cells:
Ava (could be based on the Germanic root avi or the Biblical name Eve)
Jessica (literary invention, but Shakespeare may have based it on the Biblical name Iscah)
Samantha (possibly inspired by the Biblical name Samuel)
Again, feels pretty weird to put overtly Christian names like Christina and Christine in the non-Biblical category, but oh well.
Here are the year-by-year tallies:
Year
Top 20 names given to…
# Biblical
# Non-Biblical
1914
31% of baby girls
6 (30%)
14 (70%)
1924
31% of baby girls
7 (35%)
13 (65%)
1934
32% of baby girls
9 (45%)
11 (55%)
1944
35% of baby girls
8 (40%)
12 (60%)
1954
34% of baby girls
9 (45%)
11 (55%)
1964
24% of baby girls
9 (45%)
11 (55%)
1974
24% of baby girls
8 (40%)
12 (60%)
1984
26% of baby girls
6 (30%)
14 (70%)
1994
19% of baby girls
6 (30%)
14 (70%)
2004
14% of baby girls
6 (30%)
14 (70%)
2014
12% of baby girls
5 (25%)
15 (75%)
Just like with the boy names, though, there’s a big difference between the 1914 and 2014 sample sizes — 31% and 12%. So let’s also look at the 2014 top 100, which covers 31% of female births.
By my count, last year’s top 100 girl names were about a quarter Biblical, three-quarters non-Biblical:
27%-73% is remarkably similar to both 25%-75% (smaller 2014 sample) and 30%-70% (1914 sample).
So here’s the question of the day: If you had to choose all of your children’s names from either one group or the other — Biblical names or non-Biblical names — which group would you stick to, and why?
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