How popular is the baby name Sara 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 Sara.
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The most popular baby names in the Netherlands were announced a few days ago.
According to the Sociale Verzekeringsbank (SVB), the top names in the Netherlands are Daan for boys and Emma for girls.
Here are the top 20 girl names and boy names of 2012:
Baby Girl Names
Baby Boy Names
1. Emma 2. Sophie 3. Julia 4. Anna 5. Lisa 6. Isa 7. Eva 8. Saar 9. Lotte 10. Tess 11. Lynn 12. Fleur 13. Sara 14. Lieke 15. Noa 16. Fenna 17. Sarah 18. Mila 19. Sanne 20. Roos
1. Daan 2. Bram 3. Sem 4. Lucas 5. Milan 6. Levi 7. Luuk 8. Thijs 9. Jayden 10. Tim 11. Finn 12. Stijn 13. Thomas 14. Lars 15. Ruben 16. Jesse 17. Noah 18. Julian 19. Max 20. Liam
Quite short overall, aren’t they?
Jayden, now 9th, was 7th in 2011. It was 5th in 2010.
Here are a few more facts about the top 20, shamelessly stolen from Maarten Van Der Meer of Vernoeming.nl:
Big gainers are Bram (up from 16 to 2), Thijs (up from 14 to 8) and Anna (up from 10 to 4)
Newbies for boys are Noah and Max, for girls are Fenna and Mila.
Dropouts for boys are Sven and Mees, for girls are Maud and Jasmijn.
A reader named Sara tells me she had a baby boy in March and named him Simon. She asks:
I was wondering if you know how this name is trending, as I see it on a lot of name blogs/websites but not in wide use (yet). Thanks!
Let’s check out the numbers:
2011: 1,345 baby boys given the name Simon (rank: 256th)
2010: 1,363 (250th)
2009: 1,328 (260th)
2008: 1,344 (261st)
2007: 1,348 (258th)
2006: 1,413 (240th)
2005: 1,310 (252nd)
2004: 1,299 (254th)
2003: 1,418 (235th)
2002: 1,394 (242nd)
2001: 1,268 (259th)
2000: 1,248 (263rd)
Looks like usage has stayed relatively stable so far this century, and I don’t know of any reason it might suddenly pick up.
My guess is that Sara feels like she’s seeing the name Simon a lot because she’s already used it for her son, so that makes her more tuned-in to it. She’s more likely to notice it when reading a baby name blog/site, and more likely to remember having seen it later on.
But who knows — maybe Simon really is being discussed more often than expected online. I haven’t noticed this, but has anyone else?
Last year, over 92,000 baby boys and nearly 88,000 baby girls were born in the Netherlands. The top baby names were…
Girl Names
Emma
Julia
Sophie (2010’s #1)
Lotte
Isa
Lisa
Sara
Lieke
Eva
Anna
Boy Names
Daan
Sem* (2010’s #1)
Milan
Levi
Luuk
Lucas
Jayden
Thomas
Stijn
Jesse
*Sem is a form of Shem, a biblical name meaning “name,” “fame,” or “renown” in Hebrew. Shem, Noah’s eldest son, was the ancestor of the Semitic peoples — hence the words “semite” and “semitic.”
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