Curious About Names
Curious Kid Podcast
Bleav + Olivia
4.6 • 653 Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to the Curious Kid podcast. |
| 0:25.2 | We love it when we get emails with topic suggestions we probably never would have thought of on our own. |
| 0:31.9 | This week is a perfect example of one of those topics. |
| 0:35.7 | Mail bag. |
| 0:37.5 | Mail bag. |
| 0:39.2 | Mail bag. |
| 0:49.8 | Hi there. My name is Anna, and I'm mom to five-year-old Colin and eight-year-old Ava. We live in Seattle, |
| 0:57.7 | Washington. We love your podcast. Ava would like you to do an episode on Beavers, and Colin would like you to do an episode on names. Thank you for considering our ideas from Colin and |
| 1:04.9 | Ava of Seattle, Washington. That's a great email. We love your suggestions. This week we are getting curious about names for you. |
| 1:14.3 | It's such an incredible suggestion and we never would have thought about doing it until we got this email. |
| 1:20.6 | Have you ever wondered how things got their names? We are going to explore that this week. |
| 1:26.5 | According to the most current data from the Social Security Administration, |
| 1:30.9 | the most popular baby names for babies in the year of 2018, were Liam, Noah, William, James, and Oliver. |
| 1:41.5 | It was the second consecutive year that Liam was the most popular boy's name in the |
| 1:47.0 | United States. The five most popular girl names in 2018 were Emma, Olivia, Ava, Isabella, and |
| 1:55.9 | Sophia. I know girls with all of those names. That's right, you do. |
| 2:01.3 | And that includes our awesome listener, Ava, from Seattle. |
| 2:05.5 | Emma has been the most popular baby girl's name since 2014. |
| 2:10.8 | Okay, Olivia, what's the question of the week? |
| 2:13.5 | The question of the week is, which of the most popular baby names today were also in the 10 most popular baby names 100 years ago? |
| 2:24.3 | Okay, so we just gave you the 10 most popular names for babies in the United States, five girls' names and five boys' names. |
| 2:33.5 | Only two of those 10 names were in the top ten names from 100 years ago in the year 1921. |
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