Popularity Prediction Contest: Guess the new Top 10! And now see the winners!
The official list of U.S. Most Popular Names of 2013 will be released by the Social Security Administration any day now, and so in advance of the announcement, which we’re all awaiting with baited breath, we’re asking you to predict which names will come out on top.
Will Jacob‘s 14-year reign finally end? Will Sophia and Isabella continue to play tag, or will there be a new Most Popular girl and boy in town? And if so, who do you think it will it be?
What about the rest of the Top 10? How do you see the order shifting? Which names will fall off or leap onto the Top 10 for girls and boys? (For a full list of 2012 Top 1000, see our Popular Names page.) There will be a prize (see below) for the first person to guess correctly the Top 10 girls and Top 10 boys in the correct order.
As a reminder, here were the leading names last year:
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And if you like, you might go beyond the Top 10s and make some further predictions, like new names on the Top 1000, names making the biggest leap up the national charts…
As a further inducement, we’re giving away a charming personalized baby bunting, one of the most popular items in the Nameberry Store and a great accessory for your child’s room.
If no one guesses the correct Top 10s, we’ll pick the person who in our opinion comes closest.
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FLASH!!!
THE CONTEST RESULTS ARE IN AND WE HAVE TWO WINNERS!
It’s a tie! We have two winners who came closest to predicting the Top 20 names for 2013, and they are (drum roll!):
Orchid_Lover! and townsend2787
…who will each get a personalized, multi-patterned fabric banner from our store.
They both guessed 19 of the 20 names correctly, and though not in the exact order, they were pretty close (darn that Chloe and Aiden!).
It was a tough year for prognosticating, the main stumbling blocks being Noah and Liam’s surprise jumps into first and second place. (Hats off also to luluemonmee—the only entrant who predicted Noah at the top!) The vast majority of boy votes went to Mason at Number 1.
Among the girls, Ella, Lily, Chloe and Charlotte were the biggest wannabees not to make it, and for the boys, the aforementioned Aiden, plus Elijah and James.
So congrats to the winners, and thank you all so much for participating!