further randomness

[mamajoan]

Yay! They finally announced the Mother's Day event at Fenway Park. They're going to let moms and their families walk on the field! And throw balls in the bullpen! For only $10 per person! Super-cool! My mom works right near the park, so she just walked over and got us tickets. :) We're all excited, cuz we've always wanted to take one of the tours where they let you walk on the field, but we've never gotten around to it. So, yay.

When I was looking at baby-shower invitations yesterday (btw, most of them are SO tacky!), I also accidentally found myself looking at baby-shower cards, like the card you'd buy to give to someone along with your shower gift. I read a couple of them and got all sniffly. I'm going to embarrass myself on the actual shower day, I just know it. ;) I'll probably be a big gooshy mess after opening the very first present. Better bring a mop. ;)

The other day someone was telling me that I shouldn't name my kid Max (not that I was planning to, but apparently he wanted to tell me this anyway) because, according to him, Max as a kid's name is totally passé. I was thinking, "well that's not true, my cousins named their son Max just a couple years ago," and then I realized that particular Max is eighteen and starting college in the fall. *groan* Augh! I'm old!

In related news, the list of most popular baby names for 2002 is out. Emily and Jacob top the list for the umpteenth year in a row.

The full lists:
Girls: Emily, Hannah, Madison, Ashley, Sarah, Alexis, Samantha, Jessica, Elizabeth, Taylor.
Boys: Jacob, Michael, Matthew, Joshua, Christopher, Nicholas, Andrew, Joseph, Daniel, Tyler.

Is it kind of weird that the #10 names are so similar Taylor/Tyler? And some people reverse their genders; at least, there are boys named Taylor, don't know about girls named Tyler. Also, it strikes me as a little odd that almost all the boy names are very sturdy, traditional names (hell, most of them are biblical) whereas most of the girl names are trendy ones. Not all modern (Hannah and Sarah are biblical, and Emily and Elizabeth have been around forever), but still what I'd call trendy.

Anyway, I'm glad to see that none of the names I've been considering are on the list (although that's only because I already discarded Hannah *because* it was on the list) and at some point I'll have to track down the longer top-100 list and check it out too. I wonder if Max will be on it. ;)

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[(Anonymous)]

Since I was a dork and wandered over there after reading the article about the top ten:

http://www.socialsecurity.gov/OACT/babynames/

You can access the top 10, 50, 100 and 1000 from 1990-2002. By decade back to 1900 is a little lower on the page.

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

wow, cool. Thanks for doing the grunt work for me. ;)

[ladyvyola.livejournal.com]

The full lists:
Girls: Emily, Hannah, Madison, Ashley, Sarah, Alexis, Samantha, Jessica, Elizabeth, Taylor.
Boys: Jacob, Michael, Matthew, Joshua, Christopher, Nicholas, Andrew, Joseph, Daniel, Tyler.

Is it kind of weird that the #10 names are so similar Taylor/Tyler? And some people reverse their genders; at least, there are boys named Taylor, don't know about girls named Tyler. Also, it strikes me as a little odd that almost all the boy names are very sturdy, traditional names (hell, most of them are biblical) whereas most of the girl names are trendy ones. Not all modern (Hannah and Sarah are biblical, and Emily and Elizabeth have been around forever), but still what I'd call trendy.

Phhhhhthhhhhhp! :P~~~~~~~~

So sayeth Sarah Elizabeth (age 36), sister of Thomas Andrew (age 34). And let me tell you, the flack my mother took for naming me Sarah! It took forever before I met another one my own age. They were all my mother's age and older, or fifteen years younger than me. Oddly enough though, of the Sarah's I've run into, literally dozens have been Sarah Elizabeths. Two great names that sound great together!

Thirty-Five-Year-Old-Sarah waves to Thiry-Six-Year-Old-Sarah

[glamsith.livejournal.com]

Oh.. the fifteen-years-younger-than-us-Sarah's "Sarah! Put that down, it's breakable!" ?? I'm twenty, I'm allowed to pick up wine glasses in the store and there's a small two feet behind me with a margarita pitcher the size of her torso. Never failed.

It hurts my brain that Max is passe, since I never knew it was "in." That's my grandfather -- the one who looked like the Phantom of the Muppet Show.

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

Well, your mother was taking flack for being ahead of her time, apparently. Because by the time I was in school, there were numerous Sarahs in every class (and every bunk at summer camp). And I'm only seven years younger than you.

[tiggrrl.livejournal.com]

In high school I knew a girl named Tyler.