Top Baby Names For 2012 Include Sophia For Girls And Jacob For Boys: What Names Are Making Huge Leaps Toward The Top And View The Top 100 List
Top baby names for 2012: The list of the most popular baby names for 2012 has been revealed and Sophia and Jacob top the list again, but other once uncommon names are creeping their way up the list.
The U.S. social security revealed the list Thursday for top baby names for 2012 with Jacob becoming the top boy name for the 14th straight year and Sophia taking the top rank for girl's names for the second consecutive year.
As Sophia ranks for girls as the top baby names for 2012, the fastest-growing name for girls was Cataleya, according to Laura Wattenberg, creater of the website Babynamewizard.com who told Reuters.It jumped to 479th in 2012 from 1,680 the previous year, she said, adding that could be attributed to actress Zoe Saldana playing an alluring assassin with that name in the 2011 film "Colombiana."
Even though the obvious top baby names for 2012 remained the same, some other names are climbing their way up the charts in America. Messiah was the fourth fastest-growing name for boys, rising to 387th in 2012 from the 633th spot in 2011, according to the federal agency. King became the seventh fastest-growing boy's name, reaching the 256th most popular spot in 2012, compared with 389th the year before, the agency said.
"Bold names for boys are very hot right now," said Laura Wattenberg, creator of the website BabyNameWizard.com told Reuters. "So for people who are appalled by the idea, most of us are not appalled by names like Emmanuel, which is very common today, and it wasn't that long ago that the name Emmanuel was shocking to a lot of people."
The name Major ranked as the fastest-growing boy's name on the SSA list, jumping to 483rd most popular in 2012 from 988th in 2011, according to Reuters.
"I have no doubt Major's rising popularity as a boy's name is in tribute to the brave members of the U.S. military, and maybe we'll see more boys named General in the future," Carolyn Colvin, acting commissioner of the SSA, said in a statement.