The more I read about Freakonomics, the more I want to buy it.

I'm glad Nora's not on there... I still hope to use it some day!

I thought you were hoping for Honoria, Lenise. Would that be Nora for short?

I had no idea any of the names I've picked could ever be trendy ones, but if The Girl's name really does hit the big time, I guess that will always mean people will think she's younger than she really is. She can age slowly.

I love names too. A lot of the names we have considered are on that potentially popular in 2015 list.

It is weird though how when you pick a name out no one seems to have it, then a few years later it is everywhere. I had that happen with 2 of my kids.

My oldest son was going to be named Forrest, then right before his birth the movie Forrest Gump came out and sort of ruined the name for us.

Hey! We almost named Susanna "Flanery", after my husband's grandmother's maiden name.

We could've been cool. 10 years from now. Oh well.

Jordana- yup. I actually started from Nora (my great-grandmother, short for Norena), but the only form/variant Paul liked was Honoria. Compromise is a good thing =]

I'm obsessed with baby names and am wriggling with excitement at the thought of perusing these links. I found a cool name-related blog today and a tool that shows a name's popularity over the course of the century. Very interesting: http://babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/lnv0105.html

Yikes, there are some really cool names on that 2015 list. Makes me worry that whatever awesomely odd name I choose will become ridiculously popular in the not-too-distant future.

I guess anything has that potential. My daughter's name that is on the 2015 list isn't even in the top 1000 baby names in the country at the moment. I'm not too worried about what will happen in 2015. My main concern was that there wouldn't be tons of kids running around on the playground with the same names as my kids.

I didn't even do so well at that. My son's name is not at all uncommon and there is another little girl in town with the same unusual nickname as The Girl, even though they don't share the same name.