According to the Social Security baby name tracker, in 2015:
- There were nearly 4,000 Nevaehs born, good for 70th place overall.
- There were twice as many Skylars than Marys.
- More girls were named Londyn or Jordyn than Rebecca; more named Emersyn or Camryn than Jillian.
- Jennifer and Melissa are out of the Top 250 and only marginally more popular than Sawyer … on the girls‘ side…as a first name (and Madison WI’s second baby of 2017).
- Jaxon was the 44th-most-popular boys’ name and Jaxson was 84th, two ahead of Jason. (Jackson proper – at least, as proper as a last name in a list of first names can be – is all the way up at 17th.)
- Aiden (rank: 13), Jayden (20), Brayden (61), Kayden (95), Aidan (185), and Zayden (193).
- And 1,509 male babies named Messiah.
If that’s not doom-laden enough, New York magazine’s “best memes of the year” make it hard to argue we don’t deserve it.