January 21, 2005
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Thanks to Carolyn, Babushka Emeritas of the Waybourn's Russian Federation (on their mother's side), for sending me a cool link regarding the most popular names sorted by decade, per the Social Security Administration.
The very uppermost region of the 1990's has the boys' names one would expect, with Michael being #1.
Would never have guessed the #1 girls' name, however . . . . Ashley?
It's not that it's not a pretty name, for it surely is, but I wouldn't have thought it was the most commonly chosen.
Here's an odd thing. I've run into far more Bethany's than Brianna's, yet the former is #118, while the latter bagged the #29 spot.
And how about this for an strange pairing! Boy's name #813 is Darwin, while the girl's is Infant.
Infant? That's a NAME? Sounds like the parents couldn't agree on anything and just gave up trying.
Scrolling all the way down, it would seem it's not the TOP 1000
registered names, but the names, period, seeing as how the girls stop
at #1000, while the boys keep on through 1010.
Comments (8)
Emeritas? She's retired from the job? Say it isn't so!
(I think it would be Emerita, in any case.)
"Infant" might, possibly, be what is placed on an SS application if the name hasn't been chosen by the time the mother fills out the paperwork. (They do push you in the hospital to get the paperwork in about the same time you get your first shower.) Presumably if such is the case, another form is later filled out to amend the child's name. But "infant" gets into the statistics that way.
I don't know if that's the case, but it seems like a sensible possibility.
It sounded impressive, PentaPoop!
Sheesh.
;^)
But I suppose you're correct about "Infant," however, seeing as how it's #665 on the boys' side. Didn't notice that. Oops!
Great snakes, though, how soon are people filling out SS paperwork? Before they leave the hospital? I can't imagine sending in for a SS# without having named the baby. Now you've got to get the forms to amend it and everything. Too much trouble.
Yes, before they leave the hospital. Generally they bring the paperwork along sometime around your first post-partum meal (I'm not exaggerating much.) They definitely want it before you leave.
One reason is that nowadays, you can't (without a special exemption) list your kid as a dependent on your federal income taxes without an SS number. That really only makes it something to rush for kids born near the end of December, but I suppose considerations like that make it "hospital policy" that all new mothers be accosted with the paperwork and nagged about completing it.
Shows how long it's been since I did the newborn-baby thing, doesn't it? Beth, Alex's wife and expectant-mom-to-either-Hannah-or-Caleb is going the birthing center/midwife route...I wonder if the paperwork will be the same?
I imagine it probably will be. On the whole, it really is a convenience to the parents for the hospital/birthing center to hand you the paperwork and then send it out for you. I know it gets some people's backs up because it seems like the government encroaching even on the first day of birth, but most people don't view it that way, but rather appreciate it being taken care of.
My sister's birth certificate has her as Baby Girl Whitney.
I think they got her named before Soc Security came around, though, since we are of the generation that got their Soc Sec. card at the time of their first job.
I think it's convenient enough to get your paperwork done about age 15 or so, don't you?
Except that, as I said, you can't name your kids as dependents on your 1040 without a lot of hoo-ha if they don't have the number. That's kind of inconvenient.
can you do it with a LOT of hoo-haw? I didn't think you could at all, w/o a SS#.
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