Baby names

If you haven't heard, we love baby names. Alex and I put a lot of time and discussion into the meanings of our children's names; we actually have to stop ourselves from planning more names for future children (Lord willing that we have more).

Jubilee Kate, June 2011 - pure joy

This week, the Social Security Administration released the statistics on 2014 baby names. I'm never terribly interested in the top names. Although the top names are all nice this year - I really like Noah - we tend to go more obscure than that.

Whitaker Andrew, November 2012 - man of the white fields

Each year, when the new data are released, I check this page. From there I download information about every name given to at least five new babies each year. And that's where I found this info:

• In 2011, there were 104 baby girls named Jubilee.
• In 2012, there were 18 baby boys named Whitaker.*
• In 2014, there were 10 baby boys named Zeal. 

In 2013, there were fewer than five boys named Zeal. More than doubled in one year - we might be riding a wave, all the way to the top ten!

Zeal Josiah, May 2014 - zealous fire of the Lord

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*Just for kicks, there were also 14 boys named Whittaker.