Baby Names
These Are The Most Popular Baby Names By State
Arkansas- Ava & Noah
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According to a very well versed user on ilxor, Ava is a sign of the times. Why?”More than this, though, it’s got the right combination of phonemes for this decade. I can’t emphasize this enough. There are plenty of grandma or great-grandma names that never experience a resurgence, names like Gertrude (#22 in 1906) and Mildred (#6 for most of Woodrow Wilson’s presidency), and that’s largely because the terminal D sound fell out of favor quite a long time ago — especially for girls — and that’s a lot more difficult to come back from. Parents want names that are unique, yes, but they don’t want them to sound weird or ugly. Ava, lo and behold, fits right into a phonemic pattern that’s especially popular right now: girls’ names that begin with a vowel and end with an A. For instance, also in the top 30 in 2008: Emma (#1), Isabella (#2), Olivia (#6), Alyssa (#16), Ella (#19), Anna (#26). (For comparison, in 1988, the only name like this in the top 30 was Amanda.)” Noah also has a trendy ending with the ‘ah.’
