"untitled," mixed media, 2007

As many of you know, we are planning to wait and decide between our two favorite names in the hospital. With the baby's arrival weeks away or less, it seems like we might as well wait and meet her at this point! So you won't be hearing a name until you're also hearing a weight, length, and so on, :)

New Social Security data for names used during 2006 was recently published, so of course I had to check out the latest charts! The big news for our two choices is that as of 2006 Adelaide has re-emerged into the top 1,000 US baby names. That still doesn't make it common--HARDLY! As you can see by the righthand column of the graph below, Adelaide was used less than 100 times for every million babies born in the US, a minuscule percentage (don't let the tallness of the graph fool you!) Monroe, whether used for boys or girls, hasn't emerged into the top 1,000 in 30 or 40 years.

You can play with names yourself on Name Voyager--it's pretty addictive.
http://www.babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/lnv0105.html