Top Baby Names

Rank	Male name	Female name
1	Jacob	Emma
2	Michael	Isabella
3	Ethan	Emily
4	Joshua	Madison
5	Daniel	Ava
6	Alexander	Olivia
7	Anthony	Sophia
8	William	Abigail
9	Christopher	Elizabeth
10	Matthew	Chloe
11	Jayden	Samantha
12	Andrew	Addison
13	Joseph	Natalie
14	David	Mia
15	Noah	Alexis
16	Aiden	Alyssa
17	James	Hannah
18	Ryan	Ashley
19	Logan	Ella
20	John	Sarah
21	Nathan	Grace
22	Elijah	Taylor
23	Christian	Brianna
24	Gabriel	Lily
25	Benjamin	Hailey

The social security site finally released the top baby names for 2008.  I was very interested to see if Emerson had gotten popular. If you know me I don't like to be like everyone else because I'm just weird like that. So obviously I wanted my child to have a name that not everyone else had. As a matter of fact my criteria was a name not in the top 100. Something that was interesting, not common, but still very cool. I think Emerson is all of those things. But, when the NICU nurse named Amy told me her daughter's name was Emerson (weird, huh?) I sorta freaked that I had picked a trendy name. So I have been stalking the social security site for the past few months to see the fate of my first born's beautiful name. In 2007 the name was ranked 312. So drum roll please. This past year in 2008 Emerson is only ranked 290.  A bump of 22 spaces. Not showing a trend of widespread popularity and complete overuse like the name Emma. No offense if that is your kids name. Friends really gave that name a boost. To show a little perspective Esmeralda, Fatima, and Genesis are all more popular than Emerson. I don't know about you but I don't know a single person with those names. So now I can relax and forget about my fear of becoming mainstream. I love, love, love her name and I hope she does too. :)