What's in a name?

Here's what just didn't cut it for the blog names:

• halabalu
• mazaroo
• patapusal
• zoonaboonabird...wait, it's zunagunabird
• calamazoo
• sanaranafan
• jumbalia
• twitterpated
• doodl-dalingo
• lacroixzazam
• foivalo
• wakaaa
• theandthat
• tinriver
• tunaburger...'I don't want it to be super meaty'
• tofulapalus
• and urbanfeather (it's already a design firm somewhere)
  

While some friends helped me brainstorm names for this blog with instructions of making it kinda random, maybe about birds, and perhaps colorful, I learned that one of my friends is just extraordinary at making up words (as seen above). She also happens to have a very popular name.

For further entertainment, here's the most popular names in the US in 2007:

1. Jacob, Emily
2. Michael, Isabella
3. Ethan, Emma
4. Joshua, Ava
5. Daniel, Madison
6. Christopher, Sophia
7. Anthony, Olivia
8. William, Abigail
9. Mathew, Hannah
10. Andrew, Elizabeth

And for a hoot, here's 1907:

1. John, Mary
   
2. William, Helen
   
3. James, Margaret
   
4. George, Anna
   
5. Robert, Ruth
   
6. Charles, Dorothy
   
7. Joseph, Elizabeth
   
8. Frank, Mildred
   
9. Edward, Alice
   
10. Henry, Marie
    

From the Social Security Administration