Baby Names - Statistics from the Department of Social Security

The Department of Social Security keeps full and publically available records of the top 1000 baby names by year. Link for further info.

While we have already picked out "Little Blossoms" name, and until referral it is under wraps, I was interested to see how popular "Malcolm" is.

Just under the top 500 boys names in 2003, Malcolm is beaten by Bruce and beats out Rodolfo!

For the purposes of research only, I have entered in a number of family first names ranked in order of popularity, based upon the 2003 figures.

Most popular is my brother-in-law Christopher, in 9th place, beaten by Daniel, and beating out Anthony into 10th place.

Next most popular and somewhat surprising at 16th most popular boys name is Alexander, my father's name, beaten by Tyler and beating out John.

My brother Kevin is 31st, beaten by Gabriel and beating out Noah.

Now it gets interesting as we drop a couple of hundred in the listings.

My younger theologian brother-in-law is 208, beaten by Peyton and beating Dustin.

My youngest sister-in-law is 211, beaten by Makenzie and beating our Hanna.

My sister in law, wife of Christopher in 9th place is 404th in the girl baby names listing for 2003, beaten by Brittney and beating out Sage.

Another huge jump down the listings to 599 is my mother, beaten by Gwendolyn, and beating out Tanya.

My wife's eldest brother and my second eldest brother-in-law is ranked 664 on the boys listing of names, beaten by Aaron and beating out Judah.

My mother-in-law ranks at 974, beaten by Trisha and beating out Katerina, while my last look-up my youngest brother-in-law does not make the top 1000 names as the family often note his first name (and second) is pretty cool.

I am sure that there are some really great guys out there called Rodolfo!