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What’s Rockland’s most popular baby name?

Posted by: Robert Brum - Posted in Blauvelt, Clarkstown, Congers, East Ramapo, Nanuet, New City, Nyack, Orangeburg, Orangetown, Palisades, Pearl River, Piermont, Rockland County, Schools, Sparkill, Tappan, Valley Cottage, West Nyack on Jul 26, 2010

Journal News data analyst Tim Henderson, who has been researching changing population demographics in Rockland, recently obtained the latest list of birth countries for new mothers and the most popular baby names.

Here are the eight most popular birth countries of the mother for babies born in 2008, the most recent year for which data was available:

United States 3,297; Haiti 209, Guatemala 203, Ecuador 182, Israel 120, Dominican Republic 111, El Salvador 110, Mexico 107.

Here are Rockland’s most popular baby names for 2008, the most recent year for which data was available:

Males: Joseph, Michael, Moshe, David, Abraham
Females: Esther, Rachel, Rivka, Chaya, Leah

Here’s what the list looked like in 2000:

Males: Michael, Matthew, Joseph, John, Nicholas
Females: Sarah, Samantha, Jessica, Nicole, Julia and Kayla (tied)

And 1990:
Males: Michael, Christopher, Daniel, John, Matthew
Females: Jessica, Amanda, Nicole, Samantha, Sarah

 

 

 

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5 Responses to “What’s Rockland’s most popular baby name?”

1. JGlenn July 26th, 2010 at 2:03 pm

   This analysis doesn’t add up; are you telling me that in all of Rockland, all of last year there was not one Birth Mother whose birth country was in Europe? Hard to imagine with the large Irish, Polish and Russian communities in Rockland. With Rocklands growing Asian population there were no birth from Mothers born in India? In Korea? In the Phillipines?

   Sorry Tim, I am not buying

2. Robert Brum July 26th, 2010 at 2:13 pm

   Hi – I have amended the post so that it reads that these are the eight most popular birth countries for Rockland’s mothers. These are not ALL the birth countries. Hope that clears up the confusion.

3. Woodchuck73 July 26th, 2010 at 2:15 pm

   I agree with previous poster, this seems to be rather sloppy analysis designed to fit an agenda. The fact that there are no births from Mothers whose home country was India tells that soemthing is not Kosher here.

   You also have to watch out not to read things into “most popular names”. Some communities are very traditional and will name their children within a narrow band of names. At the same time, ‘American’ parents seem to strive now for unusual (and some plain wierd) names. So that will skew this “analysis” which doesn’t seem to be too analytical.

4. JGlenn July 26th, 2010 at 2:21 pm

   Adding the “Eight” qualifier makes the figures make more sense, though this has to be the first time I ever hear of “A Top Eight” in anything, usually you do a “Top Ten”.

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