The Name Game

So what is in a name?  I don't have kids but I am sure for those who do, they agonize of what to name their children.  Often one person likes a name, but the other knew someone with that name that they didn't like or thought was a looser, so they veto the name.

I was never really crazy about my name.  I always thought it was cute for a little girl, but kind of cheezy now that I am a woman.  Tammy usually is the tarty girlfriend on television.  She is potentially endowed with things other than a brain. 

My friend Steve says that his name is what the supporting cast gets named.  The average other guy.  Although I notice recently Steve is a popular name for inatimate objects, like the "Hedge" in over the hedge, or the "Monkey" in cloudy with meatballs.

Chad has a good name.  He is usually the "The Chad".  He kind of gets to hang with the soap star guys that are named Brock, Cole or Drake.

Names definitely follow trends.  My old aunts always had names like Elsie or Edith.  The men were Henry or Buck.  These are names you don't see much of anymore.

So here are the names that are hot for 2009.
Boys: Ethan, Liam, Jacob, Logan, Noah, Alexander, Benjamin, Owen, William, Lucas
Girls: Olivia, Isabella, Ava, Emma, Hailey, Sophia, Chloe, Madison, Ella, Lily

So how do our names stack up?  I am going to put in various spellings that are close to your name, since I don't know if your name is a shortened version.  But here are how our names stack up today:

Brad (19 Total)
1 Bradlee, 16 Bradley, 2 Bradly

Chad (4 Total)

Cliff (2 Total)
1 Clifford, 1 Clifton

Erron (24 Total)
22 Erin, 1 Eryn, 1 Erinn

Kelly (15 Total)
4 Kelly (boys),  10 Kelly (girls) 1 Kelli (girl)

Kim (13 Total)
1 Kim, 1 Kimberlee, 1 Kimberley, 8 Kimberly, 1 Kimmie, 1 Kymberly

Kyle (56 Total)

Liam (303 Total)
301 Liam, 1 Liem, 1 Liiam

James (132 Total)

Janine (0 Total)

Shaun (28 Total)
8 Shaun, 20 Shawn

Tammy (6 Total)
1 Tammy, 5 Tamara

Vlad (3 Total)
1 Vlad, 2 Vladimir