Emerson Kaye

So I've been tagged by Nichole. I didn't even know you could be tagged in the blogworld but here we go. I'm suppose to explain to you all how we came up with the name Emerson.

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I wish Emerson had some deep meaning but, it really doesn't. I just plain loved it. A year before I got pregnant I was dreaming of naming my little girl Emerson. It just popped in my head from out of nowhere and I loved it so much. So when we found out we were expecting it was my immediate first choice. Mark on the other hand didn't like the name Emerson. He was against it and thought it was a bit boyish so I pushed my feelings aside and shelved the idea of Emerson. I was a little bit of a control freak while pregnant so I was going through name lists well before we told anyone. Lucky for you guys I found my Barbie notebook this weekend which has our name polls. Yes, I said Barbie notebook. :) I had a huge list of names I would go through, and write yes, no, or maybe for Mark and I. Then on the other side I would write what number it fell on social security's list of baby names. Neurotic, right? I really didn't want a top 100 name, even a top 200 name. I had 15 girl names, and 10 boys names. So any name either of us said yes to I put into a pile of names. Which we both ranked in order of favorite to least favorite. Emerson was clearly my number 1. Mark's was Keira. He still thinks it has potential to be another one of our child's names. Sorry, Mark. No. Keira was my number 7. Emerson started to wear on Mark. The other portion of the equation is I wanted to in some way have the name reflect my Mother's name. Which was Kaye, but went by Katie so could really be Kate, Katerine, etc. Emerson Kaye seemed to flow to me but I really didn't think Mark would agree to it. My second choice name was Harper. Finally we had our ultrasound. Which at the time I really was convinced Emerson was a boy and already had two boy names picked out. One starts with an E, the other an R. I can't tell you those of course. You know the rest of the story. We were delightful surprised to find out we were having a girl! As soon as we left Mark told me he liked Emerson now. Ha. Finally he sees it my way! Hehe. So Emerson Kaye it was. That weekend we went up to Asheville for our anniversary and Mark suggested maybe we name her Ophelia. I quickly nipped that in the butt. Your welcome Emerson. We still get...

"Isn't that a boys name?"

" That's an interesting choice for a girl."

But, my favorite is...

"That's such a beautiful name"

Thanks. I like to think so. Now it's your turn! I'm tagging you guys. Carrie, even though it's pretty obvious where your name came from. Haha. Brittany and Brittany R. I also tag you Nicole. So please go give me something entertaining to read.

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. :)