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Today:     And tomorrow: Say It With Flowers! Baby Name World! Directory of 11,000 names telling the gender, origin, meaning, and user star rating. Browsable by alphabet and annual popularity. Comments or questions? Send us e-mail.

How popular is your name, and the names of your relatives and friends? Although our calendar, following the pattern of the first edition of 1982, is designed to include namedays of popular first names of all age groups (the median age in the U.S. is about 40), we show, in 2 special index pages, among all the 3000 first names, the rankings of the 500 most popular baby names for both genders in 2004. Each index entry of those names contains the name, its nameday and its numerical ranking in parenthesis. Two examples: (Female names)   Sarah Aug 19    (12) (Male names)       Eric May 18      (61). The rankings are based on the Social Security Administration's data (2004) for births in the United States. While there are altogether 130 cross-gender names in the calendar, interestingly, these 12 particular names below are so popular both as female and male names that they are among the top 500 most popular in both categories in 2004.    Name    Nameday      Rank as a  Female name     Rank as a   Male name     Alexis     Mar 3            11        103    Amari     Jan 25          434        407    Angel     Jan 4          128          44    Avery     Jul 9            77        226    Cameron      Jul 14          252          50    Dylan     Mar 20          474          19    Harley     Jun 26          358        462    Jaden     Sep 9          249          83    Jayden     Sep 9          234          62    Jessie     Dec 29          485        455    Reese     Jul 30          262        390    Riley     Feb 23            58        106 When you click below on either FEMALE names or MALE names, you will be taken to the page from which you can search for names and their namedays either... 1. Alphabetically by Letter,   or   2. Using your browser's SEARCH function, by Name. FEMALE NAMES MALE NAMES Incidentally, one nice feature in using your  browser's Search function is that at the same time you will see ("at-a-glance") many similar names with their namedays. Here's how it works (for Female Names in this example):   (The example here is for Internet Explorer. Netscape and the other browsers work similarly) 1. Select    " Edit". 2. Then, click on     "Find". 3. A dialogue box will     pop up. To find the     name "Alexis",     type it in the box     "Find what:". 4. Check mark the box     "Match Whole      Word Only". 5. Click on "Find Next". 6. The browser will locate the part of the "A" section of the index where "Alexis" is listed. Your browser will highlight "Alexis". The red number (11) indicates that Alexis was the 11th most popular baby name for girls in 2004. The blue number (103) means that Alexis was the 103rd most popular name for boys in 2004. If you are interested in popularity of baby names, a wide variety of statistics on most popular baby names, including the top 1000 names of each decade of the last century, can be found at the SSA's website www.ssa.gov. It should be noted, however, that in the SSA's data, different spellings of similar names are not combined, each name variation is considered a separate name.

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