The Point: Top Baby Names
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🗓️ 22 November 2021
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Summary
The top baby names for 2021 are now posted. You've got the "Let's be different" parents spelling "Jaxon" with an X or every vowel with a Y, and Disney fans naming their kid "Raya." Of course, there's the gender-neutral fad with nature words like "River" and "Willow." Some are claiming "Ezra" is also gender-neutral, but I doubt the Old Testament prophet would agree.
Still, it is interesting how many Biblical names keep cropping up. According to one list, seven of the top ten boy names this year come from the Bible – Noah, Elijah, Lucas, Levi, Asher, James, and Ethan.
If you think back about these Apostles in their day, they were nobodies… no power, no wealth, no future, some were even put to death.
But we all know people named Matthew, Esther, John, James, Paul, Peter, Mary, Thomas, Elizabeth, Joshua… people who, by the world's standards were failures, but who are still remembered to this day.
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| 0:00.0 | Our names say a lot for the Colson Center. |
| 0:02.6 | I'm John Stone Street with The Point. |
| 0:04.2 | The top baby names for 2021 are now posted. |
| 0:06.9 | You've got your let's be different parents, |
| 0:09.0 | spelling Jackson with an X and every vow with a Y, |
| 0:12.8 | and Disney fans naming their kids Raya. |
| 0:14.9 | And of course, there's now a gender neutral fad |
| 0:17.3 | using nature names like River and Willow. |
| 0:20.1 | Some are even claiming Ezra's gender neutral, |
| 0:22.4 | but I doubt the Old Testament prophet would like that. At the same time, it is interesting how many |
| 0:26.7 | Bible names keep cropping up year after year. According to one list, seven of the top 10 boys' names |
| 0:31.7 | this year come from the Bible, Noah, Elijah, Lucas, Levi, Asher, James, and Ethan. And if you think |
| 0:37.1 | back to these apostles in their own day, they were no bodies. |
| 0:40.1 | No power, no wealth, no future, some will put to death. |
| 0:43.0 | But we all now know people named Matthew or Esther or John, James, Paul, Peter, Mary, Thomas, Elizabeth, Joshua. |
| 0:49.9 | People who by the world standards were failures, but are still remembered to this day. |
| 0:54.8 | For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with The Point. |
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