Change in Name Popularity

Change in popularity from 2008 to 2009

The tables below show the change in popularity from 2008 to 2009. Names at the top of a list have the greatest increases in popularity, while those at the bottom have the greatest decreases in popularity. Generally, the more popular a name, the smaller the change in popularity.

For each year, rank 1 indicates the most popular name, rank 2 the next most popular, and so forth. "Popularity change" is the difference in ranks from one year to the next. We compared ranks for both years only if a name was in the top 500 in at least one of the 2 years. With this restriction, we tabulated 523 male names and 530 female names.