The #1 boys name is Liam, and the #1 girls name is Olivia according to the CBS News articles, The 50 Most Poplular Baby Boy Names & The 50 Most Poplular Baby Girl Names.
Interesting that our Bramble Bush has only 5 Liams & 4 Olivias. Our Liams are all currently living. Our Olivias are all from the mid to late 1800s.
Does this mean that our Bramble Bush is full of folks who don't follow popular culture? Does it mean we aren't a family of trendy folk?
I would like to believe we are a family that likes to give our children unique names. We have two boys who can never buy anything pre-populated with their name. Their names are unique, and then we made them more unique with the spelling we chose.
When I go to the second most popular boys name, Noah, we have 15 in our Bramble Bush. The majority born in the 1600s and 1700s, but 2 died in 1976. The second most popular girls name, Emma, we have almost 600 in our Bramble Bush ranging from as far back as our roots go.
Emma was one of the names we chose for our oldest if he would have been a girl. Interesting that we chose very unique boys names, but for girls we had chosen more traditional names. When looking at the names we had considered only Emma appears on these lists.
One of the Emmas in our tree is my step-grandmother, Emma (nee Van Loo) Boogemans. She became my grandma, by choice, when I was 8 years old. I remember the first time I met her.
We traveled from British Columbia to Ontario. On that long journey our new dad taught us to say 'How are you?' in Flemish "Oe ’wis’t met jou?". We practiced for the entire journey wanting to say it exactly right. He corrected our pronunciation showing us how to hold our mouths just right.
When we met our new grandparents for the first time I smiled and said "Oe ’wis’t met jou?". My grandma got super excited with the biggest smile and said to my dad " you found a nice Flemish girl". I was so proud that my pronunciation was perfect enough to make her believe we were Flemish. I'm not sure if she was disappointed that we weren't Flemish, but she never led us to believe we disappointed her.
I wrote about this before, and you can read it & see photos at this link
As If Born To ~ Grown Under Their Hearts
My Boogemans grandparents, and my favourite EMMA!
Emma Louisa Florentina Van Loo
BIRTH 18 MAR 1910 • Heist-op-den-Berg, Antwerpen, Belgium
DEATH 18 DEC 1988 • Dashwood, Ontario, Canada
and
Frans Boogemans
BIRTH 30 OCT 1910 • Belgium
DEATH 15 MAR 2000 • Exeter, Huron, Ontario, Canada
Oe ’wis’t met jou?
How Are You?
Finding your memories in the list of the most popular names!!!
This is why I search -
Cause ...
You can pick your friends, but you can't pick your family you know!
***Any errors are my own. Please send me any updates or corrections via the comments at the bottom of this blog post***
Sources:
Cartelli, Lance. The 50 Most Poplular Baby Boy Names. CBS News. Originally published October 29th 2019, updated February 25th 2022/ Retrieved May 26th 2022 from
https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/the-50-most-popular-baby-boy-names/19/
Ryan, Joel. The 50 Most Poplular Baby Girls Names. CBS News. Originally published October 9th 2019, updated February 9th 2022. Retrieved May 26th 2022 from
https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/baby-girl-names-50-most-popular/50/
Links:
Amy Johnson Crow, 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge
https://www.amyjohnsoncrow.com/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks/
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