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Summer Baby Names Showdown 2020: Boys SemiFinals

July 18, 2020 By appellationmountain Leave a Comment

Great Summer Baby Names Showdown 2020: Boys SemiFinal Round

Your votes have taken us straight up to the boys’ SemiFinal round in the Summer Baby Names Showdown 2020! If you’re new here, the Showdown is an annual tradition. Normally, we debate which names new (or recently returned) to the US Top 1000 are best. But “normal” does not apply these days. Instead, we’re matching […]

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Summer Baby Names Showdown 2020: Girls SemiFinals

July 16, 2020 By appellationmountain Leave a Comment

Summer Baby Names Showdown 2020: Girls SemiFinals

Every March, Appellation Mountain readers participate in a bracket-style showdown to choose their favorite name of the year. Names win their way into the contest by being the most-viewed for the prior calendar year. Plenty of names are perennial bridesmaids, making it to the contest year after year, but never winning big. But over the […]

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Summer Baby Names Showdown 2020: Boys Quarter Finals

July 11, 2020 By appellationmountain Leave a Comment

SNS Boys QuarterFinals

What, precisely, is the Summer Baby Names Showdown, you ask? Most years, it’s the way we choose our favorite of the new names in the US Top 1000. But 2020? Well, 2020 is just a little different. (Understatement alert.) There are no new names. Or … there are, but the Social Security Administration has delayed […]

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Summer Baby Names Showdown 2020: Girls Quarter Finals

July 9, 2020 By appellationmountain Leave a Comment

summer baby names showdown girls quarterfinals

Every March brings a major play-off, a showdown of the greats. It’s March Madness Baby Names, of course. Sure, there’s basketball that month, too. But ’round here, it’s all about the names. And since this so very strange summer will see the NBA re-start their basketball season in July, we’re hosting a very special tournament […]

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Summer Baby Names Showdown 2020: Boys Opening Round

July 4, 2020 By appellationmountain Leave a Comment

Summer Baby Names Showdown Boys Opening Round

It’s time for The Great Summer Baby Names Showdown. We do this every summer, but 2020? It’s a little different. (How’s that for an understatement?) Normally, we vote our way through the best of the names newly debuted in (or returned to) the US Top 1000. Except the US popularity data release is delayed indefinitely. […]

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Summer Baby Names Showdown 2020: Girls Opening Round

July 2, 2020 By appellationmountain Leave a Comment

Summer Name Showdown 2020

It’s time for The Great Summer Baby Names Showdown. Normally, we spend our summer choosing among the best of the new names to debut on the US popularity charts in May. But “normal” and “2020” don’t belong in the same sentence. The US popularity data release is delayed indefinitely. So instead, we’re going to revisit […]

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March Madness Baby Names 2020: The Winners!

April 1, 2020 By appellationmountain 8 Comments

March Madness Baby Names 2020: The Winners

Your votes have been tallied, and the results are in! Before we get to the big announcement, let’s look at back at our trip so far. We started with sixteen boy names and sixteen girl names: GIRLS: Maisie, Emmeline, Noa, Faye, Lumi, Esme, Marlowe, Tess, Juniper, Zuzu, Marlowe, Persephone, Andromeda, Sloane, Evolet, Vera BOYS: Zev, […]

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March Madness Baby Names 2020: Girls Final

March 28, 2020 By appellationmountain 2 Comments

MM20 Final

It’s here! You’ve voted, narrowing down the list from sixteen contenders to just two finalists. Now it’s time for March Madness Baby Names: the girls’ final. As with the boys’ contest, I’m pretty surprised by the results. I might’ve predicted the exact opposite outcome! And once again, the name that I thought might just win […]

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March Madness Baby Names 2020: Boys Final

March 28, 2020 By appellationmountain Leave a Comment

MM20 Final

We’ve reached that moment in March Madness baby names – the one where I’m absolutely shocked, shocked by the outcome of a particular contest. If you’re new here, here’s what’s up: every March, I take the most popular baby names on Appellation Mountain and set them into a bracket-style competition. Your votes determine the champion, […]

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March Madness Baby Names 2020: Boys SemiFinals

March 21, 2020 By appellationmountain Leave a Comment

March Madness Baby Names 2020: Boys SemiFinals

Time for the boys semifinals in March Madness Baby Names 2020! Every year, we look at the most popular posts from the prior twelve months to determine the most popular choices. Appellation Mountain readers tend to favor a quirky bunch – the Top Ten here looks nothing like the US Top Ten. Those names face off in […]

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