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New York City Baby Names Just Released
Friday, October 12, 2007, 8:10:05 PM | Neil
New York City’s Department of Health has
just released its statistics for the
most popular baby names in New York for 2006 — and the
girl’s name Emily dropped from the number one position
it had occupied since 2003.
The new number one girl’s name in New York is Ashley — which actually held the top spot from 1992 - 2002. Emily and Isabella round out the top three girls’ names in the Big Apple, which saw more than 125,000 new babies in 2006.
On the boy’s side, Michael continues its run of more than a quarter century as the most popular boy’s name, followed by traditional favorites Daniel and Matthew in second and third place.
New in the top ten for boys is the name Jayden, which
landed in the tenth spot. Jayden is also one of America’s
top ten unisex baby names.
If celebrities influence baby names, then Angelina was a clear winner at number 16. Britney only managed to reach 119, while Paris tied Lindsay for 121st place.
Precious gem names shone among the baby girls of New York in 2006, with Amber, Jade and Ruby all placing in the top 100.
Looking at the most popular baby names by ethic group, the top African-American girl’s name was Kayla, the top Hispanic name was Ashley, and the top among white girls was Sarah. Top boy’s names for those three groups, respectively, were Joshua, Angel, and Michael.
Finally, my favorites in the unusual
baby names category — there were ten little baby boys named Orion,
and ten little girls named Star, born in New York in 2006. And 114
little Heavens, spelled backwards.
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