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I did a list like this for December and got some interesting responses

For discretion I'm not posting the babies' middle names, although it does include those where I'm getting my info from. I live in a mid-size town in the midwestern US. As an interesting point of note - there were 70 girls born and 58 boys.

BOYS
Abraham
Alexander
Anthony
Aries
Bentley
Brandon
Brantley x2
Bryer
Caleb
Carver
Charlie
Conner
Damion
Deegan
Franklin
Gage
Gunner
Hunter
Isaac
Jackson
Jacob x2
Jacoby
Jamison
Jason
Jensen
Jesse
Jordan
Joshua
Jude
Kaelan
Karson
Kayden
Keegan
Kyson
Landon
Leeland
Mateo
Matthew
Nathan
Nolan
Ollie
Owen
Paul
Robert x2
Ryan
Ryker
Silas
Tatsuki
Thane
Tyler
Victor
William x2
Wilson
Zeke

GIRLS
Abbigail
Addison (+1 Addyson)
Adra
Allison
Amelia
Ana
Angelina
Ashlyn
Autumn
Braelyn
Caroline x2
Carmel
Caterina
Chapel
Charley (+1 Charli and +1 Charlie)
Chloe (+1 Khloe)
Delanee
Dixie
Edie
Ella
Elijah (yes, it's a girl)
Elizabeth x2
Eloise
Emily x2
Emma
Gailan
Gabrielle
Gabriella
Gracie
Haley
Harper
Hattie
Hazel
Jamie
Jordan
Josie
Kailiana
Karlee
Kayla
Kaylan
Kaylee
Karizma
Katie
Kennedy
Kensley
Kyleigh x2
Lainey
Lanah
Layla
Lily (+1 Lilly)
Marissa
Molly
Roxanna
Rylie
Samyah
Savannah
Sofia
Taylor
Trinity
Vivianne

Overall, a more tame list than December's offerings, although Carver, Deegan, Kyson, Ryker, Thane, Elijah for a girl, Karizma, and Samyah are ... interesting

I know a Thane. I also encountered a baby called Charisma several years ago. I thought it was bad enough without the krazee spelling.

Karizma stood out for me too.

Brantley??

Interesting how few names are repeated. I think if you did that in the UK you would find more repeated names.

Karizma . I hope the poor child's not mousy and dull!

Fascinating thread. I don't think they do this in the UK.

Interesting only like about six names on that list.

Elijah for a girl Horrible! My 9 year old ds is called Elijah, so this particularly offends me

Love Abraham, Silas, Owen, Victor and William.
Love Carmel, Hattie, Hazel - actually thats it!

Nice to see Caroline being used, although I don't love it, it is better than a lot of the names on that list, and unusual now.

Kyleigh - wtf!

yay, a Dixie made it!!

I also noticed the lack of repeats. I think here it is a more common wish to want a "unique" name than a classic one. In fact going back a few months there was a girl named Unique here at the hospital.

I remember your last thread on this, and I remember Brantley being popular on that one as well. Can't say I like it.

And poor Carver!

Carver stands out to me. Also the very few repeats.

Samyah is an arabic name.

whats wrong with samyah?

Not keen on Karizma.
Never heard of Brantley, is it a US thing?

Chapel? very very strange.
2 Kyleighs - I bet both mums thought they were going for a unique spelling.

I have never heard of Samyah - I thought it was made up.

Brantley is a surname here, and almost all surnames have now been transformed into first names.

Wasn't Michael J. Fox's character in The Secrets of My Success called Brantley?

Goes off to Google....

Yep it was he played Brantley Foster. My mind stores the most useless info. Anyway, getting off track. Poor little Dixie. I can only hope Karizma doesn't turn out to be a boring cow.

Not as bad as December, most of them are fairly normal! Poor old Karizma though and Carver.

I think of the Teen Moms had a Brantley is that why it's become popular?

Slightly about an Autumn being born in January. I suppose it's no more weird than a Holly born in August, there must be plenty of those.

Teen Moms had a Bentley.

I think you should go around to Deegan's house and try to get them to tweak it slightly to Deaglan.

Karson? Keegan? Kyson? Kensley?

Aaagh! My eyes!

OP are there a large number of, um, mobile-home parks in your town?

Don't answer that.

Come to think of it shouldn't someone tell Aries' Mum that she really should've picked Capricorn or Aquarius.

Lol @ Mumbai

And mobile home parks- not many. This hospital serves the entire town of about 140,000 - so would say vast majority of these babies are middle class, which is the vast majority demographic of the town.