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Names From… The Bottom 10

January 16, 2009 at 7:59 pm (Names From...) (abigail, andrew, anthony, antonia, ava, bentley, blaise, bree, brenton, christopher, dandre, daniel, daxton, dia, diya, elie, eliezer, elizabeth, emily, emma, ethan, gregor, gwen, hannah, isaac, isaak, isabella, jacob, jedediah, joshua, kylah, leroy, leticia, madison, marlen, matthew, michael, olive, olivia, ophelia, sheila, sky, sophia, susana, talen, tristan, trystan, tyshawn, william, zaniya)

Us onomasts have pretty much heard the top 10 baby names from back to front: Emily, Isabella, Emma, Ava, Madison, Sophia, Olivia, Abigail, Hannah, Elizabeth, Jacob, Michael, Ethan, Joshua, Daniel, Christopher, Anthony, William, Matthew, and Andrew no longer make us blink an eye. But as we anxiously wait for the 2008 top 1000 names, we can look closer into the top 1000 of 2007. Maybe some of us have memorized the names of the top 25 or top 50 of each gender, but have any of us taken a real look at… the bottom 10 of the top 1000 list? Now, you have that chance.

BOTTOM 10 girls names:

• 990. Diya
• 991. Leticia
• 992. Sheila
• 993. Susana
• 994. Kylah
• 995. Sky
• 996. Antonia
• 997. Bree
• 998. Marlen
• 999. Olive
• 1000. Zaniya

What a diverse bunch! There’s the trendy-sounding Kylah and Sky,  buttoned-up Antonia, Olive, and Leticia,  sophisticated Bree, old-fashioned Sheila, Spanish-spelled Susana, and just out-there Marlen, Zaniya, and Diya.

My favorites: Antonia, Susana, and Leticia, though Bree and Olive are ok. I wonder where Diya came from? My guess as a creaytive spelling of Dia, the Spanish word for “day.”

Now for the boys:

• 990. Bentley
• 991. Talen
• 992. Blaise
• 993. Brenton
• 994. Eliezer
• 995. Isaak
• 996. Tyshawn
• 997: Dandre
• 998. Daxton
• 999. Leroy
• 1000. Trystan

Again, these are all over the place. I sense a trend here: There’s the trendy-sounding Daxton, Talen, Brenton,Bentley, and Trystan,  buttoned-up Isaak and Eliezer,  sophisticated Blaise, old-fashioned Leroy,  and unconventional Tyshawn and Dandre.

Faves: Eliezer (ell-e-AY-zur), because of the association with Eliezer “Elie” Wiesel, author and concentration-camp survivor, and Blaise (recently a NotD at appellationmountain) are the only ones I really like, and Isaak/Isaac is ok for me. The rest are too current/soon-to-be-dated like Brenton, or made-up-sounding, like Tyshawn. And the misspelling of the medievel Tristan downgrades it quite a bit.

Conclusion: While familiar names like Ophelia, Gwen, Jedediah, and Gregor do not make the cut, names like Diya and Daxton do. WDYT of these bottom-of-the-top-1000 names?

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