Baby-name remorse

[glatt]

Originally Posted by BigV

as for the 400/susan thang... I still don't agree/understand.

I read the link and page stuffs.. My understanding is that the name Susan is the 400th (I accept your rounding, fine) **most popular name** for the given period.

Not that there were only 400 people named Susan for the given period.

See the cached Google page I linked to. The formatting is all messed up, but it lists the ranking of the name, the name, and then the number of times the name was used. Look for the phrase: "For a girl Name Gender Times used Favorites"

Number 1 is Emily, and it was used 25,494 times in 2003.

Number 514 (not 511 as I stated above) is Susan, and it was used 550 times in 2003.

Look for the phrase "1 Emily 25494" and then later "514 Susan 550"

I know it's a sucky link to support a figure, but it's the only list I found that included more than the top 100 names for 2003. There are many more sites that will confirm the number one name in 2003 was Emily and was used 25,494 times.