Top Alberta Baby Names 2013

[TheyCallMeBruce]

Just once I'd like to see Dracula, or Hitler, or Osama be the #1 name.

[TheGrimm]

Originally Posted by Mazrim

All the Whiskeyjack's of the world deserve a fair shot, right?

Better than Iskar Jarek?

/nerd


We just had a daughter last month and went old school... Lydia! (It's a family name)

[Hugh Jahrmes]

We just brought Declan home for the first time last night. He seemed happy to find out he's got an original name.

Lol the jaxon/lucaz comment made me laugh. Have at least 2 each on my fb

[ernie]

Originally Posted by photon

Yeah, going too far the other way can be just as bad. But it's bad when you call your kid's name and 4 kids in his class look up lol.

Thing is it really depends on the area. Liam is a popular name in Alberta...clearly very popular. In other areas it may not be. It certainly isn't in this area where teachers teaching for numerous years have remarked our son is the first Liam they've taught (though it is a popular name in the state overall right now just not the area...a lot of boys named Wyatt though). At the time he was born it also wasn't popular in the province we were in. My daughter will likely never have a popular name unless we move to Wales or a Fleetwood Mac song has a huge resurgence due to it being covered by some pop star.

[Coys1882]

Originally Posted by ernie

My daughter will likely never have a popular name unless we move to Wales or a Fleetwood Mac song has a huge resurgence due to it being covered by some pop star.

Tusk is a great name!!

[wookster]

Id like to see the lists of how many people have legally changed their first names and what they changed them from and to....

Be interesting to see how many WhiskeyJack's went in and dropped the Whiskey....or the Jack for that matter to something that won't get them beat up any longer.

[burn_this_city]

The Jackson outbreak can now be classified as a pandemic.

[BurningYears]

I enjoyed seeing Zeus on the list

[Swift]

Originally Posted by East Coast Flame

Crazy. My name is number 1 again. For about the first 25 years of my life the only other Liam I had ever heard of is Liam Neeson.

Now whenever I go to a park or something I always hear some young mother shouting my name. Sadly it's not for me

My son was born in 2009 (so I guess just around the time it became popular) and we named him Liam because I wanted a good old fashioned Irish name.

Shortly after, I became aware of three other Liams born around the same time period. Had no idea it would become this popular a name over here.

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by Cameron Swift

My son was born in 2009 (so I guess just around the time it became popular) and we named him Liam because I wanted a good old fashioned Irish name.

Shortly after, I became aware of three other Liams born around the same time period. Had no idea it would become this popular a name over here.

Nothing you can do about it if you're at the beginning of the wave of a popular name, so I wouldn't sweat it.

In 2013 if I was naming a kid Liam, however, I would have gone with William to give the kid some flexibility to not be part of a pack of Liams if he so chose.

[Knut]

Originally Posted by Regulator75

I still hope that one of these years we'll see a Bort.

We named our second child Kort.

Which did not show up once on the 2013 list. 1 Cort and 1 Court.

Some may not like it, but it is simple and strong.

[Cowboy89]

only 1 Ralph in 2013 vs. 14 for Raiden

102 for Bentley!

[Sliver]

Hey does anybody here have a fataed up spelling of a normal name? If so, what stops you from just spelling it the way familiar to everybody else out there in your normal, everyday life?

I know somebody named 'Angelia' but it's pronounced 'Angela'. She spends half of every day correcting the pronunciation, when really she should just write 'Angela' on forms/documents/etc. that don't matter. It boggles my mind.

[kirant]

Originally Posted by kunkstyle

And made it to E before I lost all faith in humanity. Someone named their child "Eberle".

Edmonton is no good.

You quit just before Ebony-Rose. And Emberlee.

[Senator Clay Davis]

All that's missing from the absurd number of Jacksons is one with an apostrophe in it (like say Jack'son) or a Z in it (like say Jaxzen).

[DownhillGoat]

Originally Posted by kirant

You quit just before Ebony-Rose. And Emberlee.

Please tell me that's the girl's list...

[OutOfTheCube]

Originally Posted by Mazrim

- Cloud (no one named Sephiroth, thankfully)

Five Aeris' and one Aerith, though.

[Reaper]

Originally Posted by Sliver

Hey does anybody here have a fataed up spelling of a normal name? If so, what stops you from just spelling it the way familiar to everybody else out there in your normal, everyday life?

I know somebody named 'Angelia' but it's pronounced 'Angela'. She spends half of every day correcting the pronunciation, when really she should just write 'Angela' on forms/documents/etc. that don't matter. It boggles my mind.

One is her legal name; the other is not.

[PowerPlayoffs06]

Originally Posted by Regulator75

Whaaaaaaa?

No Jaxon or Lucaz?

Brother-in-law had his kid born on Saturday. Sure enough... Jaxon.

[Maritime Q-Scout]

Sadly, when I hear someone had a baby I feel the need to congratulate them, not on the birth of their child but actually giving him/her a normal name.

Also interesting on the last letter statistic. My name ends with N, as does the abbreviated version of my name.