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Baby names in the top 1000 last year that are also places in Massachusetts

List compiled by Greta Gaffin:

For boys:

  • Lincoln
  • Hudson
  • Easton
  • Everett
  • Weston
  • Kingston
  • Spencer
  • Holden
  • Dalton
  • Warren
  • Russell
  • Princeton
  • Franklin
  • Sterling
  • Heath
  • Paxton
  • Otis
  • Lawrence
  • Dennis
  • Douglas
  • Quincy
  • Boston
  • Lee
  • Sutton

For girls:

  • Holland
  • Sharon
  • Chelsea
  • Hadley
  • Bristol
  • Sutton

What do you think will be next? I would be unsurprised to see Ashby, Aquinnah, Canton, Leyden, Mendon, Palmer, Rowley, Tolland, Salem and Swansea.

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Waiting for all the mutant spellings on that one, just like Michaela got morphed into Mikkkayylahh and Meekaylya and Miq'allah and other things suitable for space aliens.

Akweenah? Acqinuh? Ahkuinaaaa?

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No Athol?!

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There are already plenty of Athols out there.

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Cool list

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for Becket (not sure what sex, though).

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But since the spelling is different, I didn't include it. There's also Lennox, for both boys and girls.

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Is also unisex.

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a friend of mine named his kid Aquinnah but everyone insists on calling her Gay Head which makes a lot of the immature kids giggle.

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I've thought about and had my heart set for years in naming a future daughter Aquinnah my family goes way back on MV...now you got me thinking twice! :(

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Maybe use it for a middle name..l.

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Could throw Beverly on the girls list too.

I hope people start naming their kids Mattapoisett at some point.

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Works for boys and girls, at least traditionally.

Erving, Norton, Buckland or Berkley for guys.

I could see MelRose work, too.

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Hamilton?

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No Logan?

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But, alas, it's not a town name.

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      IMAGE(https://elmercatdotorg.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/adams.jpg)

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But it is a PLACE is it not ;)

I think it would be interesting if we added neighborhoods as well as universities/colleges.

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A major international airport is definitely a place.

At 3.725 square miles, it is bigger than about a third of Massachusetts municipalities.

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Names from the 1940s list included these places:
Wendell (boys)
Milton (boys)
Chester (boys)
Marion (boys and girls)
Lynn (boys and girls)
Shirley (girls)
Beverly (girls)

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As was

Dennis, Lawrence, Douglas, Russell, Franklin, Warren, Everett, Lowell, Otis, Clinton, Randolph, Spencer, Maynard, Sterling, Monroe, Milford, Dudley, Dalton, Lincoln, Alford, Palmer, Newton, Lincoln, Wayland, and Weston for boys. Oh, and Shirley, Beverly, and Sharon for boys too. Also, Lee for girls and boys.

With an honorary mention to Bradford (boys), annexed to Haverhill in 1897, and Dana (both), destroyed for the Quabbin in 1933.

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Now yuh scarin me.

:-)

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Gill used to be a common name and is also a town.

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Gill, MA?

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Let's not forget Leslie Aspen, Congresswoman from Wisconsin.

The creator of Don't Ask Don't Tell had his own thing to not tell.

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Did you derive this list by looking down the list of the 1000 most popular names from the SSA and picking out names you knew were also places in Massachusetts, or did you download two lists, import them to a db, and run a join query?

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you'd name it Rehoboth. Sheer torture in spelling and pronouncement for a lifetime.

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And everyone will think s/he is an Eldritch God, which could be a plus or a minus, depending.

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As in biblical old school.

Rehoboth Hepsibah for a girl ... Amaziah Rehoboth for a boy ...

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And don't forget Lowell.

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Don't forget Lowell..

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One of TV's most underappreciated comedies.

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My next son will be named West Bridgewater.

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....YOU GET IN THIS HOUSE THIS INSTANT! AND STOP PICKING ON GROTON!!!"

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Orange stayed outside, ignoring the dinner bell.

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I do know people personally who don't fit this stereotype, but whenever I see a baby list like this, I picture yuppies with comic social pretentions, looking for posh-sounding names for their kids in the belief that this will somehow distinguish them. And then you get what I saw more than once at a resort ski school checkin desk:

Proud parent: This is Liam!

Tactful employee: That's great! We have a few Liams today, what's your last name?

Proud parent: *deflate*

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My wife tells the story of a family that was so afraid of their kid being made fun of because of his name that they chose the most generic name possible, "John Smith."

And in the end, all the kids called him, "John Tits."

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And in the end, all the kids called him, "John Tits."

I don't think that was because of his name.

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my cousin Sagamore, and his twin sister Bourne. Yes, their last name is Bridges. It's not a very imaginative family.

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