Ready for the Top Girl Names 2022 on Appellation Mountain? It’s a quirky, compelling list. After all, these are the Top Girl Names 2022 on Appellation Mountain …. a site big enough to generate glorious piles of data; but small enough that readers really do influence the names that make it to the top. Plus, […]
READ MORE >>Top Boy Names 2022: James, Otto, Kai
Presenting the Top Boy Names 2022 on Appellation Mountain! As ever, it’s the “on Appellation Mountain” part that matters here. This list consists of the most viewed Name of the Day posts on Appellation Mountain. So it won’t look like any other Most Popular list anywhere else … and it definitely doesn’t indicate what babies […]
READ MORE >>Most Popular Names 2019: Maisie and Cove
Time to look back at the most popular names 2019 at Appellation Mountain. These are the most-read posts here at the site. It’s a wild, quirky list. My Top Ten looks nothing like the US Top Ten. And yet, the names that rank here often do make their way up the popularity charts over time. […]
READ MORE >>Best Pinterest Baby Names 2018: First Half of the Year
What are the best Pinterest baby names 2018? It’s a tricky question. There are well over 500 Pins on Baby Names of the Day alone! These ten baby names rank among the most popular Pins for the first half of 2018. Some you’ll recognize as fast-rising favorites. Others feel far more obscure, falling outside of […]
READ MORE >>Best Pinterest Baby Names 2017
What were the best Pinterest baby names 2017? It’s a tricky question to answer. After all, Pinterest contains a seemingly infinite amount of content. The Baby Name of the Day board holds 485 Pins alone – and that’s not counting the thousands of other images pinned elsewhere. (You can follow me here!) But these ten […]
READ MORE >>Most Popular Boy Names 2017: Appellation Mountain edition
Let’s look at the most popular boy names 2017. Not in the world, or even in the US. Instead, let’s review the Baby Name of the Day posts that dominated 2017. A disclaimer: these look nothing like the current US Top Ten. Some don’t even crack the Top 1000. They’re a quirky bunch, often reflecting […]
READ MORE >>Quirky Girl Names 2017: Zuzu, Anouk, Cricket
They came from the baby name blog. They’re the quirky girl names 2017! Most parents will stick to the more familiar when naming their daughters. But we discuss a wide range of names here, from the Top Ten to the truly obscure. September means the year is drawing to a close, so let’s take a […]
READ MORE >>Nine Years!
Nine years ago, on January 23, 2008, Appellation Mountain went live. Like many bloggers, I had no master plan or idea. Thanks to a lifelong obsession with baby names, I knew quite a bit about the subject – and because I was alone in a new city, with a toddler for a constant companion and a […]
READ MORE >>Most Popular Girl Names 2016
What were the most popular girl names 2016? Sure, Emma and Olivia top the official US list, and names like Sophia and Harper fared well on website-specific charts, like Nameberry and BabyCenter, too. But the most popular names list at Appellation Mountain always looks a little different. That’s because this list comes from the most […]
READ MORE >>Most Popular Boy Names 2016
What were the most popular boy names 2016? Sure, we’ll see the official Social Security Administration list in May, and plenty of websites, from Nameberry to Baby Center, have compiled their most viewed names. Here at Appellation Mountain there’s a most popular names list, too. Strictly speaking, these are the most popular name posts here, […]
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