Using the highly scientific method of combing expectant parents' "our favorite baby names" websites, babynames.com has come up with the following lists of top boy baby names of 2003:
1. Aidan/Aiden/Aden
2. Jaden/Jayden
3. Caden/Kaden
4. Ethan
5. Caleb
6. Dylan
7. Jacob
8. Jordan
9. Logan
10. Hayden
This is going to cause mass confusion in 2008 or so when these children start kindergarten and everyone's name rhymes. Also, I really hope parents are not actually naming their children after characters in HBO's "Sex and the City" (Aidan/Aiden/Aden was one of Carrie's boyfriends in the series).
It seems that my high school friend who gave birth shortly after graduation was ahead of the trend. One of his two middle names is Tjaden (after the character in All Quiet on the Western Front), and he should be about seven years old now.
Every year, the Social Security Administration releases a list of the top baby names based on infants' Social Security card applications. This list is far more representative of the population as a whole than lists based only on parents who decide to put their favorite names up on a website and have the capability to do so. I'll wait to see how the two lists compare. Maybe it is only net-savvy parents bucking the generations-long trend of naming their sons John.
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