The most popular baby names of 2015 won’t be a surprise to anybody who’s been to a playground lately — you hear them shouted over and over. But what is a surprise, perhaps, is the fondness for girls names ending softly with the letter “a”. The top 6 baby girl names all end this way, demonstrating a penchant among parents for soft-sounding names. That’s perhaps counter-intuitive in an environment where parents are hyper-conscious about raising girls who won’t view themselves as softer than boys. The top six names are:
- Emma
- Olivia
- Sophia
- Ava
- Isabella
- Mia
The US Social Security administration shares the top names each year. Despite the recent popularity of Madison (now on the wane, it seems), girls names ending in vowels account for a solid majority on the overall list. Long gone are the days of consonant-ending names like Joan, Vivian, Eleanor and Ann among the popular choices.
