{"id":11299,"date":"2015-05-08T09:28:42","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T13:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=11299"},"modified":"2015-05-08T10:39:55","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T14:39:55","slug":"2014-social-security-administration-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2015\/05\/08\/2014-social-security-administration-data\/","title":{"rendered":"2014 Social Security Administration Baby Name Data!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Social Security Administration has released their data for 2014<\/a>! This is always a very exciting day.<\/p>\n

I was just writing a post this morning where I wondered if the name Shannon would drop out of the Top 1000 in 2014 (it was at #922 in 2013), and it did do so.<\/p>\n

I’d been wondering what the name Sloane would do, because it feels like it is mentioned in a lot more letters recently, and it has gone up again: from #405 in 2013 to #370 in 2014.<\/p>\n

My daughter’s name is increasing in popularity, which I expected from the number of times it has been mentioned in letters. In theory, I am not bothered by this.<\/p>\n

The name Charlotte finally hit the Top 10.<\/p>\n

Madison is still in the Top 10, which surprised me: I think because the two Madisons I know are teenagers, I keep expecting it to drop. The name Addison dropped again (from #19 to #24, the fourth year in a row it has dropped), which surprised me because it feels as if that name comes up in letters more often than Madison does—but that could just be a perception error on my part, or coincidence, and in any case the drops are very small. Spelling variations could also contribute.<\/p>\n

Emily, too, surprises me with its persistence: still in the Top 10, and it’s been there for well over two decades.<\/p>\n

Elizabeth dropped out of the Top 10. It’s been hovering riiiiiiight at the age, ranking #9 or #10 for most of the years since 1980, with occasional dips to #11 or #12, and one year getting as high as #8. But now it’s down to #14.<\/p>\n

Adelyn is up (from #212 to #197) and Adalynn is up (#173 to #128) and Adalyn is up (#178 to #152)\u00a0 and Adeline is up (#233 to #219), and so is Hadley (#110 to #99). I think the -ad- sound of Madison and Addison and Madelyn is still popular, but that parents are looking for fresher versions. The many spellings of Adelyn may make it a stealth hit: people looking up one spelling will think it isn’t very popular, and then be surprised to encounter so many.<\/p>\n

The name Emma is #1 for baby girls again: it hit #1 in 2008 for just that one year, but now it is back. Sophia was #1 for three years, but now is #3. Olivia hit #2—its highest ranking so far.<\/p>\n

Look at the amazing jumps of the name Everly!<\/p>\n

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Not even in the Top 1000 until 2012, and now look at it! That’s faster than the name Isabella traveled.<\/p>\n

Evelyn is also going up: #16 in 2014, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see it in the Top 10 before long. (Though I also wouldn’t be surprised to see it continue hovering right around where it is now.)<\/p>\n

I’d thought the name Avery might get to the Top 10 for girls this year, but it’s #13 down from #12 last year.<\/p>\n

Aria is climbing quickly: it hit the Top 1000 in 2000, the Top 100 in 2012, and #31 in 2014.<\/p>\n

Harper is #11. That was a fast trip from #887 in 2004.<\/p>\n

Penelope, one of our frontrunners if Henry had been a girl, is up again: #42 in 2014.<\/p>\n

Genevieve, our second favorite name for Elizabeth, is also up again at #210.<\/p>\n

The spelling Zoey has beat out the spelling Zoe: #22 and #32, respectively.<\/p>\n

Elsa took a big jump, which surprised me: I would have thought the movie would make parents reluctant to use the name. But it went from #528 in 2013 to #286 in 2014.<\/p>\n

Noah is still #1 for boys, and Liam is still #2.<\/p>\n

The name George is up a little bit more (from #166 in 2012 to #158 in 2013 to #134 in 2014), but nothing alarming yet: it goes up and down already, and was in the 130s (and even once in the 120s) in the first decade of the 2000s.<\/p>\n

Henry is up again, from #37 to #33. I wonder if it’s headed very slowly for the Top 10.<\/p>\n

Oliver is up from #52 to #32: I’m surprised to see it pass Henry! And Sebastian at #34: a little cluster of gentlemen.<\/p>\n

I feel as if the name Theodore is mentioned more often in letters recently, and it has gone up again, from #169 to #126.<\/p>\n

Jaxon and Jaxson are now both in the Top 100, but I see they were in 2013 as well (and Jaxon has been since 2010).<\/p>\n

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I want to get this posted because I’m eager to discuss, but I’ll keep adding to it as I think of more names I want to look up.<\/p>\n

What did your favorites do? Up or down?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Social Security Administration has released their data for 2014! This is always a very exciting day. I was just writing a post this morning where I wondered if the name Shannon would drop out of the Top 1000 in 2014 (it was at #922 in 2013), and it did do so. I’d been wondering […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-2Wf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11299"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11320,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11299\/revisions\/11320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}