{"id":14159,"date":"2019-05-10T10:53:05","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T14:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=14159"},"modified":"2019-05-10T11:01:23","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T15:01:23","slug":"2018-social-security-administration-baby-name-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2019\/05\/10\/2018-social-security-administration-baby-name-data\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 Social Security Administration Baby Name Data!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Social Security Administration has released the 2018 baby name information<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Look at Harper and Charlotte and Evelyn in the Top 10! Noah and Elijah in the Top 10! Oliver in the Top 10! These are not predictions I would have made twenty years ago. It’s fun to think what surprises will be in the Top 10 in another twenty years!<\/p>\n

Of course I looked up my kids’ names. Two are dropping verrrrry slowly. One is holding steady. One is holding steady now, after rising rather rapidly for awhile. One is dropping precipitously.<\/p>\n

Now I’m just looking through the names for anything surprising. At first I thought it was surprising to have Emily and Elizabeth out of the Top 10, but it turns out I’m a few years too late to be surprised by that.<\/p>\n

Look at the names Mila and Camila and Luna and Nova working their way up the charts! Look at Everly, for heaven’s sake:<\/p>\n

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I continue to find it surprising that the spelling Zoey outranks the spelling Zoe. I’m pleased to see the name Ivy continuing to climb.<\/p>\n

Madison and Addison are slowly dropping after a long run.<\/p>\n

Three spellings of Jackson in the Top 100: Jackson (#17), Jaxon (#39), and Jaxson (#76).<\/p>\n

The name George didn’t do anything crazy after the little royal baby was born in 2013 (I’m including back to 2006 to see what it was doing before then):<\/p>\n

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Do you see any surprises in the new information? Anything interesting happening with your kids’ names? If you’re in the act of choosing a baby name now, did anything happen that makes you re-evaluate your choices?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Social Security Administration has released the 2018 baby name information! Look at Harper and Charlotte and Evelyn in the Top 10! Noah and Elijah in the Top 10! Oliver in the Top 10! These are not predictions I would have made twenty years ago. It’s fun to think what surprises will be in the […]<\/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-14159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-3Gn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14159","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=14159"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14165,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14159\/revisions\/14165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}