An everlasting life-changing delicate decision or the greatest debate of your life perhaps – what to name your new bundle of precious joy. Will you choose to mums the word or spill the beans prior to arrival? Tres chic and trendy or traditional and old fashioned? Want to fit in with the majority or rank out with the minority? Got a short list of contenders but can’t decide how to make the final call? Our best advice — go with one that makes you smile every time you think of it or say it. To help, we scoured the social security tables to bring you the top 10 local picks in Delaware from 2014-2012. See where your contender(s) does or doesn’t rank in the small wonder.
Rank | Male name | Number of males |
Female name | Number of females |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Liam | 68 | Sophia | 70 |
2 | Michael | 58 | Ava | 65 |
3 | Mason | 57 | Emma | 53 |
4 | Jacob | 56 | Olivia | 52 |
5 | Logan | 56 | Emily | 44 |
6 | William | 52 | Isabella | 44 |
7 | James | 51 | Mia | 40 |
8 | Caleb | 47 | Madison | 37 |
9 | Carter | 47 | Charlotte | 33 |
10 | Jackson | 45 | Avery | 30 |
Rank | Male name | Number of males |
Female name | Number of females |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Michael | 62 | Ava | 58 |
2 | Mason | 60 | Olivia | 55 |
3 | Liam | 57 | Emma | 51 |
4 | Aiden | 50 | Emily | 48 |
5 | William | 50 | Abigail | 46 |
6 | Jackson | 49 | Sophia | 46 |
7 | Joseph | 49 | Isabella | 41 |
8 | Alexander | 48 | Aubrey | 36 |
9 | Noah | 47 | Madison | 35 |
10 | John | 46 | Charlotte | 31 |
Rank | Male name | Number of males |
Female name | Number of females |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Michael | 60 | Sophia | 67 |
2 | Anthony | 55 | Isabella | 65 |
3 | Liam | 53 | Emma | 63 |
4 | Mason | 53 | Olivia | 52 |
5 | Christopher | 52 | Ava | 51 |
6 | Alexander | 51 | Emily | 38 |
7 | Ethan | 50 | Madison | 37 |
8 | William | 50 | Aubrey | 31 |
9 | Elijah | 48 | Lillian | 31 |
10 | Logan | 48 | Abigail | 29 |
Updated July 13, 2015. The above table shows the 10 most frequent given names for male and female births in 2014-2012 in Delaware. The number to the right of each name is the number of occurrences in the data. The source is a 100% sample based on Social Security card application data. See the limitations of this data source. Source: Social Security Administration
BORN BEFORE 2012?
Want to see where your name or some one near and dear’s hits the popularity list? The Social Security Administration charts go back 50+ years and list the top 100 for each and every year – yep, you heard correctly – back to 1960, ack! Check here to view the top 100 by every state year by year.
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