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Quebec has released the Top Baby Names for 2009. Yesterday I discussed the GIRLS’ NAMES and today I have the BOYS’ LIST for you.

This is a great list of names! Enjoy and let me know your thoughts.

TOP 10 BOYS’ NAMES

WILLIAM

OLIVIER

THOMAS

NATHAN

ALEXIS

FELIX

GABRIEL

SAMUEL

ANTOINE

XAVIER

All but one of these names is also on the U.S. list of top names. The names in the Top 100 include WILLIAM (#8), NATHAN (#21), GABRIEL (#24), SAMUEL (#28), THOMAS (#52) and XAVIER (#71).

The only name that isn’t on the U.S. list is OLIVIER, but the English version, OLIVER, ranks #118.

What do you think about this Top 10?

I found some other cool picks from the boy’s Top 500 list that you might like.

More from the Top 500:

ADRIANO

ALESSANDRO

ARNO

BAPTISTE

BASTIEN

BORIS

BRUNO

CEDRIC

CHRISTOPHE

CLEMENT

CLOVIS

DANICK

DARIO

EMERICK

EMILE

ENZO

ETIENNE

FABRICE

FLORENT

FRANCOIS

FREDERIC

GEORGES

GIULIANO

GREGOIRE

HENRI

JULES

LAURENT

LUDOVIC

MANOLO

MAREK

MARTIN

MASSIMO

MATHIS

MATTEO

MAVERICK

MAXIME

MEDERICK

MIKO

MILAN

NIKO

OSCAR

PASCAL

RAPHAEL

REMI

ROMEO

SIMON

THEO

THIERRY

TIMOTHE

ULYSSE

ZAKARIA

Parents in the U.S. tend to give their sons more traditional names. That trend has definitely been changing in recent years, but it’s still strong enough that I think some of these names would have a harder time catching on here in the U.S. than most of the names on the girl’s list.

What new names from this list do you think could find a home on the U.S. list?

Yesterday, I explored the hyphenated names on the girl’s list. Turns out there are quite a few on the boy’s list too.

Hyphenated Names from the Top 500:

CHARLES-ANTOINE

CHARLES-EDOUARD

CHARLES-EMILE

CHARLES-ERIC

CHARLES-ETIENNE

CHARLES-OLIVIER

FELIX-ANTOINE

FELIX-OLIVIER

FRANCOIS-XAVIER

JEAN-CHRISTOPHE

JEAN-FELIX

JEAN-PHILIPPE

JEAN-SIMON

LOUIS-CHARLES

LOUIS-DAVID

LOUIS-FELIX

LOUIS-PHILIPPE

LOUIS-SIMON

LOUIS-THOMAS

MARC-ANDRE

MARC-ANTOINE

MARC-OLIVIER

PIERRE-OLIVIER

You can see that certain names are repeated quite a bit, like CHARLES, LOUIS and OLIVIER.

What do you think of hyphenated names for boys?

Surprising finds:

#254 – JASMIN

#337 – EDEN

For more on Quebec’s top names:

http://www.rrq.gouv.qc.ca/en/enfants/Pages/banque_prenoms.aspx

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♥ Amanda

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When I was at the mall earlier, I picked up the latest Restoration Hardware Baby & Child Catalog. It’s a great catalog with cute baby things and it’s full of names! They offer many items that can be personalized with names or monograms — so their ads have lots of names in them.

It’s an interesting peek into the advertising world and the kinds of names the advertisers envision Restoration Hardware customers using for their babies. Good stuff!

Here are the names from the catalog:

RESTORATION HARDWARE GIRL NAMES

ABIGAIL

ADDISON

ALEXIS

ARIANNA

CHLOE

EMMA

EVA

GRACE

MADISON

MIA

MORGAN

TAYLOR

Bonus names I found at their website:

AVERY

EMILY

MEGAN

SOPHIA

I also found a few names that had middle names attached:

CHLOE DAWN

MIA REESE

MORGAN RILEY

RESTORATION HARDWARE BOY NAMES

AIDEN

CAYDEN

ETHAN

EVAN

HENRY

JACK

WILLIAM

Bonus website names:

HARRISON

RYAN

Full names:

JACK ANDREW

WILLIAM HENRY

The first thing I noticed when I looked at the names was that there were several “boyish” names for girls — ADDISON, AVERY, MADISON, MORGAN, TAYLOR. There were also the middle names REESE and RILEY. This is a popular trend these days and that’s reflected here, so it’s no surprise.

Also, the A’s have it — there’s ABIGAIL, ADDISON, AIDEN, ALEXIS, ARIANNA and AVERY. A is a very popular letter for first names, so this isn’t a surprise either.

The majority of these names fall into the Top 100 most popular names, based on Social Security rankings. Six of the Top 10 girls’ names are used: EMMA (#1), EMILY (#3), MADISON (#4), SOPHIA (#7), ABIGAIL (#8) and CHLOE (#10). The boys have two from the Top 10: ETHAN (#3) and WILLIAM (#8).

The only names that fall outside the Top 100 are:

EVA at #114 (however, this name is very similar to ultra-popular AVA, which is ranked at #5)

CAYDEN at #173 (multiple spellings of this name are popular though, which has an impact on ranking — CADEN is #95 and CAIDEN is #250)

HARRISON at #219

I love HARRISON. It’s so cute! I can see that becoming more popular.

Overall, they did a great job. These are fun names. What do you think? Post your comments.

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♥ Amanda

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