Oh, good Lord:
The most popular baby names often change a bit year to year, but not Jacob, which in 2011 marked its 13th year as the most popular name for boys, according the Social Security Administration’s tally for 2011, out today.
Sophia is the new No. 1 name for girls, moving the most popular girls’ name for the past two years — Isabella — to second-best. Mason was No. 2 on the boys’ list. The federal agency notes that although Mason has been a relatively popular name since the 1990s, it had never reached the top 25 names until 2010. That’s when it hit No. 12, suggesting the rise may be due to reality TV star Kourtney Kardashian’s son, Mason.
I wasn’t a fan of the name ‘Mason’ to begin with.
It’s only a matter of time before a Mason gets locked up on a bogus charge. Then we will hear the cry, “Free Mason!”
Or, if it’s in Saudi Arabia, “Stone Mason!”
Those of us of a certain age and disposition may fondly recall poet, musician, and lyricist Mason Williams. And wasn’t there a child star on the teevee named Mason?
Anyway, it takes a certain kind of cluelessness to name your spawn after a Kardashian.
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I wonder if anyone has ever named their kids Boris and Natasha?
Ha! Ha! But there was a brief spate of Yuri’s after Yuri Gagarin. It was the height of the Cold war so Russian names were frowned on.
I think you’ll find many parents in Russia with children named Boris and Natasha (actually Natalia, Natasha is a nickname).
Booman —
How come you start dissing Perry? the greatest lawyer that ever lived?
Damn, next thing you know, you won’t like the name Goober.
You goober.
I don’t like last names as first names:
Tyler, Walker, Davis, Mason, Jackson, etc.
Little-known fact: The Perry Mason Company of Boston was the publisher of The Youth’s Companion, a popular magazine that Erle Stanley Gardner (1889-1970) read as a boy.
“Hey, Mason, how did your parents come up with your name?”
“Er, uh, I dunno. Why?”
He was conceived with the help of a canning jar?
Shockingly, the name Newt didn’t make the top 25. Or even the top 1000.
Where does Willard rank? With the rest of the rats?