Recently Elsa ran in front of an older woman's shopping cart. I called out in a serious tone: "Elsa, get over here" or something like that. The woman looked a bit startled and said she was concerned for a moment because that was her name. Although I didn't ask her what year she was born, here are some stats on the popularity of Elsa's name over time.
According to the Social Security Administration, Elsa gained the most popularity in 1895, at 215th most popular (stats after 1880 only). It then declined in popularity and almost fell off the list of top 1000 names in 1998 when it hit 998th most popular.
In 2005, Elsa was the 761st most popuar name. In 2008 after Elsa met many adults of child-bearing age, the name has surged to 724th most popular. : )
For some perspective, Joseph has never fallen below 16th. Katy, however, has not made the list since 2004, and in that year was 989th most popular. Emma and Jacob are both sitting at #1 as of 2008.
http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/
2 comments:
I found it interesting that while our top choice for male names hung out in the 20s (first name) and 60s to 80s (middle name) for boys over the past 10 years, our girl names were both in the 700s to 800s. Does that mean we have no creativity when it comes to boys' names?
Elsa, we really love your name! And by reading Holly's note, clearly WE don't have ANY creativity when it comes to girls' names, but we truly didn't know Emma was so popular when we picked it -- we just liked it. And, we were trying to keep up with the cool sisters with their E-named children. LOVE AND HUGS from here!
XOXO, Janie, Josh and EMMA (No. 1 to us)!
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