起名流行风

Are you expecting? Before you choose a name for baby, you may want to take a glimpse into what other expectant parents will be naming their little ones into the new millennium!

您想象过吗？在您为自己选择名字的时候，您是否该看看您的名字在新千年的热门程度。

Power Names
有“力量”的名字

Names that stick! They're easy to pronounce, easy to remember and most of all easy to spell!
那些好读好记好拼的名字就是好名字

A few examples:
举例

Girl 女孩
Boy 男孩
Grace
Caleb
Claire
Logan
Brook
Cole

Wacky spellings for common names are out!
给那些普通名字换拼写的做法已经过时啦！

Kaitlyn, Caitlyn, Kaitlin, Caitlin, Katelyn, Caitlynn, Kaitlynn, Kaytlin, Kaytlyn, Katelynn, Katelin, Katlynn
This is the most popular name in 1998
这些是1998年最流行的名字。现在可别再那么干了啊。

Embracing Family names
让你的名字被你的家庭包围

New parents are taking a step into the past and reviving the tradition of family names. So here comes a new generation of kids named Erna, Boris and Mildred.
现在的人们似乎又回到从前，那股家族命名的风潮又复兴了，因此，新一代的孩子们又开始叫“欧娜”“博里斯”“米尔里德”......

Boy Names for Girls
More boy names will be used for girls, but less feminine sounding names will be used for boys.

女孩起男孩名字
更多的女孩子开始使用男孩的名字，但是男孩子却较少使用女孩名字

Examples of boy names used for girls:
举例（女孩起男孩名字）
Dylan
狄兰
Hunter
亨特
Ryan
瑞安

Places!
The trend continues! More than ever, couples will be naming their baby after cities, countries and provinces!

地名
这股风又刮回来了！象以前一样，人们用城市，国家，省份起名

Here are a few examples:
举例

Places - Girls Places - Boys
　　Paris　　Israel
　　Dakota　　 Houston
　　Georgia　　 Denver
　　India 　　Dallas
　　America　　 Colorado

Ethnic and Religious Names
More and more people are going back to their ancestry and religious beliefs when naming their babies. Here are a few examples:
宗教人名和民族人名

举例
Jewish基督 tamara (girl) Caleb (boy)
Irish爱尔兰 Isabel (girl) Connor (boy)
African-American Kareem (boy)
Sanskrit-Hindi Shalaka (girl) Sharat (boy)