{"id":7170,"date":"2008-09-25T08:40:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T12:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2008\/09\/25\/old-favorites\/"},"modified":"2014-07-31T11:40:17","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T15:40:17","slug":"old-favorites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2008\/09\/25\/old-favorites\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Favorites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/2008\/09\/25\/i-love-jimmy-he-is-sooooo-cute\/\">went through an old box<\/a> of diaries and other youthful crap last night, and one of my finds was a series of lists of my favorite baby names from 1984-1988. SCORE.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to list all the names, along with each name&#8217;s popularity ranking the year I liked it (source for rankings: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssa.gov\/OACT\/babynames\/\">Social Security Administration<\/a>) and any reason I remember for liking it.<\/p>\n<p>1984<\/p>\n<p>Girls:<br \/>\nAlexandra (#96)<br \/>\nEmily (#24) (I knew a very cute little toddler Emily)<\/p>\n<p>Boys:<br \/>\nTheodore (#213) (likely The Cosby Show)<br \/>\nDavid (#5) (crush)<\/p>\n<p>1985<\/p>\n<p>Girls:<br \/>\nChristy (#151; Kristy was #145) (liked a book with a Christy in it)<br \/>\nEmily (#24)<br \/>\nJenny (#157; Jennifer was #3) (my best friend was Jenny)<br \/>\nMegan (#10)<br \/>\nMichelle (#22)<\/p>\n<p>Boys:<br \/>\nDarren (#161) (nice, cute, smart classmate)<br \/>\nJonathan (#17)<\/p>\n<p>1986<\/p>\n<p>Girls:<br \/>\nChristy (#174; Kristy was #158)<br \/>\nEmily (#24)<\/p>\n<p>Boys:<br \/>\nJonathan (#16)<br \/>\nSeth (#97)<br \/>\nJimmy (#150; James was #7) (crush)<\/p>\n<p>1987<\/p>\n<p>Girls:<br \/>\nChristy (#207; Kristy was #181)<br \/>\nEmily (#19)<br \/>\nJenny (#165; Jennifer was #4)<br \/>\nMegan (#12)<br \/>\nMiriam (#325) (I knew a cute toddler Miriam)<br \/>\nSaradonna (not in the Top 1000) (and I have no idea)<\/p>\n<p>Boys:<br \/>\nJoshua (#4)<br \/>\nJimmy (#154; James was #8) (crush)<br \/>\nSeth (#89)<br \/>\nJonathan (#18)<br \/>\nAndrew (#6) (crush)<\/p>\n<p>1988<\/p>\n<p>Girls:<br \/>\nEmily (#18)<br \/>\nKristen (#36)<br \/>\nMiriam (#336)<\/p>\n<p>Boys:<br \/>\nJason (#27) (crush)<br \/>\nJoshua (#4)<br \/>\nJimmy (#162; James was #9) (crush)<br \/>\nAndrew (#5) (crush)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went through an old box of diaries and other youthful crap last night, and one of my finds was a series of lists of my favorite baby names from 1984-1988. SCORE. I&#8217;m going to list all the names, along with each name&#8217;s popularity ranking the year I liked it (source for rankings: Social Security [&hellip;]<\/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-7170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-1RE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7170","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=7170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10306,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7170\/revisions\/10306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}