{"id":805,"date":"2003-10-08T15:33:42","date_gmt":"2003-10-08T20:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=805"},"modified":"2003-10-08T15:33:42","modified_gmt":"2003-10-08T20:33:42","slug":"more-on-baby-na","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2003\/10\/more-on-baby-na\/","title":{"rendered":"More on Baby Names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Social Security Administration <a title=\"Social Security's Office of the Chief Actuary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ssa.gov\/OACT\/babynames\/\">has a web site<\/a> where you can look up the popularity of baby names by year, by state, and by the name itself.<br \/>\nFor 2002, the top ten names for boys (from one to ten) were Jason, Michael, Joshua, Matthew, Ethan, Joseph, Andrew, Christopher, Daniel, and Nicholas.<br \/>\nFor girls:  Emily, Madison, Hannah, Emma, Alexis, Ashley, Abigail, Sarah, Samantha, and Olivia.  (Didn&#8217;t Ashley on <i>The Young and the Restless<\/i> name her baby Abby, back in 2000?)<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t remember where I read about this, but apparently girls have been getting faddish names for a while.  The Victorians were apparently fond of giving their daughters &#8220;creative&#8221; names, and would sometime use a theme to name all their daughters.  Florence Nightingale was named after an Italian city, as was her sister, Parthenope.  Other families went with flower (Rose, Myrtle, Violet) or gem (Opal, Ruby) themes for their daughters&#8217; names.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Social Security Administration has a web site where you can look up the popularity of baby names by year, by state, and by the name itself. For 2002, the top ten names for boys (from one to ten) were Jason, Michael, Joshua, Matthew, Ethan, Joseph, Andrew, Christopher, Daniel, and Nicholas. For girls: Emily, Madison,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2003\/10\/more-on-baby-na\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More on Baby Names<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}