Top 13 Hottest Baby Names Trends | Baby names are influenced by everything from pop culture to celebrity names - and even the economic climate. Find out what baby girl names and baby boy names we predict will be at the top of the baby name lists in 2011. Here the Top 13trends for baby names 2011:
1. BIGGEST BIG PICTURE TREND: Two-for-one names
For baby names 2011, we predict the merging of two major recent trends: very proper proper names - think Louise and Arthur, Beatrix and Abraham - with lighter-than-air, even silly nicknames: Lulu, Bee, Bunny, and Bram.
From the parents' perspective, they get two very different names for the price of one, which can be an advantage to children as they grow up too: You can be Lulu at the nightclub, Louise on the Harvard app.
We see parents reaching further to come up with two names that are linked in highly creative and not-always-obvious ways. A few examples of nicknames and their formal name origins: Cub from Caleb, Ace from Alistair, Fanny from Stephanie, and Plum from Victoria (which is a type of English plum).
2. NEWEST NICKNAME TREND
Related to the Two-for-One trend is a taste for choosing a nickname first, then finding a formal name for the birth certificate. We see parents starting with Josie or Zee- the name the child will be known as among friends and family - and searching from there for the formal name, be it Josephine, Zachary, or Zebedee.
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