How popular is the baby name Zia 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 Zia.
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In 2022, the Philippines welcomed 1,455,393 babies.
What were the most popular names among these babies? Althea and Nathaniel, according to the Philippine Statistics Authority.
Here are the country’s top 10 girl names and top 10 boy names of 2022:
Girl names
Althea, 1,935 baby girls
Angel, 1,388
Samantha, 1,314
Princess, 1,110
Nathalie, 1,094
Chloe, 1,056
Sofia, 1,046
Zia, 984
Athena, 983
Sophia, 973
Boy names
Nathaniel, 1,956 baby boys
Jacob, 1,781
Ezekiel, 1,662
Gabriel, 1,583
Nathan, 1,557
Ethan, 1,359
Noah, 1,322
Liam, 1,198
James, 1,151
Matthew, 1,138
In the girls’ top 10, Zia and Athena replaced Andrea and Angela.
In the boys’ top 10, Noah and Liam replaced Angelo and Zion.
And which baby names saw the biggest jumps in usage?
Noah, which rose from 931 to 1,322 baby boys [2021 to 2022]
Avianna Louise, which rose from 11 to 295 baby girls [2021 to 2022]
Avianna Louise’s extreme increase must be attributable to something, though I’m not sure what.
In lieu of that, here’s some fun data from a 2017 infographic (PDF) showing how beauty queens have influenced girl names in the Philippines over the years.
In 1974 and 1994 — the first two times that the Philippines hosted the Miss Universe pageant — babies were named after both the delegate from the Philippines and the delegate who won the pageant:
Name
Delegate
Usage Increase (baby girls)
Guadalupe
Guadalupe Sanchez Miss Philippines 1974
46 to 87 [1973 to 1974]
Amparo
Amparo Muñoz (of Spain) Miss Universe 1974
127 to 689 [1973 to 1974]
Charlene
Charlene Gonzales Miss Philippines 1994
1,345 to 4,178 [1993 to 1994]
Sushmita
Sushmita Sen (of India) Miss Universe 1994
3 to 535 [1993 to 1994]
And in 1969, 1973, and 2015, the delegate from the Philippines was the winner of the pageant:
Name
Delegate
Usage increase (baby girls)
Gloria
Gloria Diaz Miss Universe 1969
3,100 to 3,413 [1968 to 1969]
Margarita or Margie (not specified)
Margarita “Margie” Moran Miss Universe 1973
1,706 to 2,351 [1972 to 1973]
Pia
Pia Wurtzbach Miss Universe 2015
621 to 925 [2015 to 2016]
A fourth Filipina, Catriona Gray, won Miss Universe (and likewise influenced baby names) in 2018.
After posting about the name Zia a few weeks ago, I thought it would be cool to look for other baby names with the same construction (consonant + –ia) in the SSA’s dataset.
Turns out, nearly all permutations have appeared in the data at some point. Here’s the full list, ordered by 2018 popularity levels:
Mia (currently the 7th most popular name for baby girls)
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.
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