Top Ten Japanese Baby Names
Top ten Japanese girl baby names
1. Hina 陽菜
2. Yui
3. Miyu 美優
4. Haruka
5. Sakura さくら
6. Nanami 七海
7. Ayaka
8. Honoka
9. Momoka
10. Aoi 葵
Top ten Japanese boy baby names
1. Yuuki
2. Haruto 大翔
3. Souta
4. Yuuto
5. Haruki
6. Kouki
7. Takumi 拓海
8. Kaito 海斗
9. Hayato
10. Shouta 翔太
Celebrity Children's Names
Apple (daughter of Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin)
Audio Science (son of Shannyn Sossaman)
Fifi Trixabelle (daughter of Bob Geldof)
Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily (daughter of Michael Hutchence)
Jermajesty (son of Jermaine Jackson)
Moon Unit (daughter of Frank Zappa)
Phinnaeus (son of Julia Roberts)
Pilot Inspektor (son of Jason Lee)
Prince Michael (son of Michael Jackson)
Puma (daughter of Erykah Badu)
Rumer Glenn (daughter of Demi Moore and Bruce Willis)
Sage Moonblood (son of Sylvester Stallone)
Speck Wildhorse (son of John Mellencamp)
Tu (daughter of Rob Morrow)
Most Popular Birth Names USA 2004
| Rank | Male name | Female name |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jacob | Emily |
| 2 | Michael | Emma |
| 3 | Joshua | Madison |
| 4 | Matthew | Olivia |
| 5 | Ethan | Hannah |
The Top Names for 2005
1. (Acts of) God: The world watches helplessly as a superpower is humbled as one of its great cities (New Orleans) is laid asunder (Hurricane Katrina).
2. Tsunami snuffs out nearly 300,000 lives, and an earthquake takes another 200,000 (Kashmir). A Higher Power, indeed.
3. Katrina: Greek (katharos) for 'pure'. Before the hurricane, the name was most famously borne by two saints, Empress Catherine the Great of Russia, and three of Henry VIII's wives.
The Top Ten Names for 2006
2. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad – Unfettered President of Iran.
3. Bono – Quintessential rock star, front man for the band U2, turned humanitarian.
4. George Bush – Received an old fashioned ‘whuppin’ in the mid-Term elections; still attempting to turn the tide in his last 24 months in office.
5. Kofi Annan – Departing head of the UN, both revered and reviled.
6. Joseph Ratzinger – Pope Benedict XVI turned Muslim heads by quoting a Renaissance scholar with a less than favorable opinion of Islam.
7. Brangelina – Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie as a new type of Hollywood power couple.
8. Saddam Hussein – Hanging marks the end of one of the most brutal dictatorships in recent memory.
9. Fidel Castro – Still lives on as the head of one of the few remaining Communist states, some fifty years after the Cuban Revolution.
10. Hugo Chávez – Expressed less than favorable opinion of President Bush at the UN.