{"id":7585,"date":"2013-05-09T13:58:34","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T17:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=7585"},"modified":"2013-05-09T14:09:06","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T18:09:06","slug":"2012-social-security-administration-data-is-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2013\/05\/09\/2012-social-security-administration-data-is-out\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 Social Security Administration Data Is Out!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you noticed that the 2012 baby name data is up at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssa.gov\/OACT\/babynames\/\">the Social Security Administration site<\/a>? I always think I&#8217;m going to have a lot to say about it, and then the data is finally here and I can&#8217;t remember what I was going to look for!<\/p>\n<p>I was interested to see what the name Charlotte would do; it&#8217;s now at #19 so it&#8217;s still climbing.<\/p>\n<p>I was also interested to see what would happen with Evelyn, and I see it seems to be stopping: the last four years, its rank has been #39, #39, #27, and now #29.<\/p>\n<p>It seems like we&#8217;ve had more interest in the name Sloane in the last few months than in the last few years combined, so I wanted to see what it would do: it went up just a bit, from #510 to #480. I&#8217;ll be interested to see that one again in a year.<\/p>\n<p>I was interested to see if Hadley and Adelyn would keep climbing, and they did.<\/p>\n<p>I checked in on some of my Sad Not To Use list (which is not an actual written-down list&#8212;it&#8217;s just the names that come to mind when I think of what my favorites are). Genevieve went from #232 to #228. Eliza went from #255 to #225. Penelope went from #169 to #125. Annabel went from #537 to #519, but that&#8217;s misleading because there are tons more spellings. Josephine went from #182 to #160. George went from #165 to #166, so I guess my pro-George efforts aren&#8217;t working. (YET.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you noticed that the 2012 baby name data is up at the Social Security Administration site? I always think I&#8217;m going to have a lot to say about it, and then the data is finally here and I can&#8217;t remember what I was going to look for! I was interested to see what the [&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-7585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-1Yl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7585","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=7585"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7591,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7585\/revisions\/7591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}