SO, YOU'RE PREGNANT?
Hawai'i folks are just Josh-ing you, baby
| • | What's in a name? |
By Tanya Bricking Leach
Advertiser Staff Writer
Oscar-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow just named her firstborn Apple.
The baby items keep on coming this week in Island Life. If you missed any of our previous stories, check the links below. • Sunday: I'm pregnant • Yesterday: The latest in maternity fashion • Today: Popular baby names • Wednesday: Make that baby shower more enjoyable with our tips • Thursday: Moms-to-be talk about nutrition and exercise • Friday: Gifts and necessities for baby
Maybe it's a wacky celebrity thing (Demi Moore and Bruce Willis were pretty creative with Rumer, Scout and Tallulah).
So, you're pregnant?
Apple Blythe Alison Martin is sure to be safe from the ranks of spoken-for monikers.
Not so if you're name's Joshua, Emma, Ethan or Mia.
Yell "Noah" (or "Noa") at the next baby lu'au, and you're sure to find several. And you might trip over a Kayla or two.
Nationally, Jacob and Emily topped the list of favored baby names in 2003, according to the Social Security Administration's records from Social Security card applications.
In Hawai'i, the top five names for girls? Emma, Alyssa, Kayla, Taylor and Mia.
And for boys? Joshua, Noah, Jacob, Dylan and Ethan.
"Seems like every sport my son plays, there's another Noah," said Penny Benzon, a 35-year-old Liliha woman pregnant with her fourth boy. So far, she's gone with biblical names: Noah, Micah and Levi. She's trying to think of a biblical "K" name for her fourth.
"I'm thinking of Kaleb," she said.
Not so many of those out there.
Tanya Bricking Leach writes about relationships for The Advertiser. Reach her at tbricking@honoluluadvertiser.com or 525-8026.
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To find the popularity of a name or popularity of names by birth year, see the baby name links at www.socialsecurity.gov.
Correction: The name of one of Penny Benzon's sons was misspelled in a previous version of this story.
