How popular is the baby name Tim 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 Tim.
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According to Slovenia’s Statistical Office, the most popular baby names in the country in 2019 were Zala and Luka.
Here are Slovenia’s top 10 girl names and top 10 boy names of 2019:
Girl Names
Zala, 272 baby girls
Ema, 224
Mia, 213
Julija, 176
Sara, 164
Ela, 163
Lara, 161
Eva, 160 (tie)
Hana, 160 (tie)
Zoja, 149
Boy Names
Luka, 282 baby boys
Filip, 241
Jakob, 233
Nik, 232
Mark, 231
Tim, 177
Jan, 171
Jaka, 164
Oskar, 162
Žan, 156
In the girls’ top 10, Ela, Hana, and Zoja replaced Nika, Maša, and Lana.
(The top girl name, Zala, is a short form of Rozalija, the Slovene form of Rosalia. The other Z-name on the girls’ list, Zoja, is the Slovene form of Zoe.)
Here’s an interesting one. Most baby names that debut on the girls’ side of the list are put there by a female (either real or fictitious). But Shelleen, just like Kookie and Korla, seems to have popped up in 1965 thanks to a male.
1967: unlisted
1966: 6 baby girls named Shelleen
1965: 7 baby girls named Shelleen [debut]
1964: unlisted
1963: unlisted
The name can be linked to Kid Shelleen, the bumbling gunfighter played by Lee Marvin in the 1965 comedy Western Cat Ballou.
In fact, Lee Marvin had two roles in the film: Kid Shelleen, and Kid’s brother Tim Strawn, a much more competent gunfighter. For the dual role, Marvin won both the Golden Globe and the Academy Award for Best Actor in early 1966.
Males don’t typically give rise to new female names, but the timing and trends were just right for Shelleen in the ’60s. The same decade, similar names like Shelly, Michelle, and Sheila all saw peak usage.
What are your thoughts on the baby name Shelleen? Do you like it more or less than, say, Shelly?
“Everly” is hot…”Beverly” is not. It’s a one-letter difference between fashionable and fusty.
If you’re sensitive to style, you’ll prefer Everly. It fits with today’s trends far better than Beverly does.
But if you’re someone who isn’t concerned about style, or prefers to go against style, then you may not automatically go for Everly. In fact, you may be more attracted to Beverly because it’s the choice that most modern parents would avoid.
If you’ve ever thought about intentionally giving your baby a dated name (like Debbie, Grover, Marcia, or Vernon) for the sake of uniqueness within his/her peer group — if you have no problem sacrificing style for distinctiveness — then this list is for you.
Years ago, the concept of “contrarian” baby names came up in the comments of a post about Lois. Ever since then, creating a collection of uncool/contrarian baby names has been on my to-do list.
Finally, last month, I experimented with various formulas for pulling unstylish baby names out of the SSA dataset. Keeping the great-grandparent rule in mind, I aimed for names that would have been fashionable among the grandparents of today’s babies. The names below are the best results I got.
Interestingly, thirteen of the names above — Bobbie, Cary, Dale, Jackie, Jimmie, Jody, Kerry, Kim, Lynn, Robin, Sandy, Tracey, Tracy — managed to make both lists.
Now some questions for you…
Do you like any of these names? Would you be willing to use any of them on a modern-day baby? Why or why not?
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