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Will Barack be among the top 1000 names in the USA in 2009?

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Background: Names often enjoy an increase in popularity as they increase in frequency in print, and since 2008 is almost ended this question is for 2009.

The name "Barack" did not rank in the top 1000 for boys in 2007, as reported by the Social SEcurity Administration.
Jacob was the most popular boy's name in 2007. The 1000th most popular name in 2007 was "Trystan" with 191 births.

Will "Barack" rank among the top 1000 in 2009?

Settlement details:As reported by a major mainstream news source quoting the US Social Security Administration. Or directly from the SSA

<a href="http://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/babyname.cgi">http://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/babyname.cgi<;/a>

 
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Yes
80%
No
20%
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Suspend date: Mon 8th Feb 7:59pm PST

Initial likelihoods: Yes: 35%

Action history:

Created Sat 8th Nov 2008 4:23pm PST by nadine_dr_computer
Settlement requested Sun 7th Feb 9:04pm PST by dieseldog: settle as no.

Barack is not in the top 1000 male names for any year of birth in the last 10 years.
Please enter another name.
http://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/babyname.cgi
Suspended Mon 8th Feb 7:59pm PST : Suspend date reached
Settlement requested Mon 15th Feb 9:58am PST by neopugg: no.

http://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/babyname.cgi
Settlement requested Mon 15th Feb 10am PST by neopugg: Sorry.
There aren't numbers for 2009 yet.
Settlement requested Mon 15th Mar 5:45am PST by shojun: Does not appear in top 1000 in last 10 years

Suspend date: Mon 8th Feb 7:59pm PST details

 

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Comments (4)

  1 randburg
I think Barack will be in the top 50, not just the top 1000. There is a very sizable African American population in the United States, who have a new home-town hero this year. Possibly the most respected person in their community since Martin Luther King. Why wouldn't the name Barack make the top 1000?
posted 7 weeks ago
  2 badwolf
Barack in the top 1000 names?.....now that's just crazy.
posted 5 weeks ago
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama
posted 5 weeks ago
  4 lesley[Admin]
We need to wait until the names for 2009 births are included in the list. If anyone can provide that information, then please submit another settlement request.
posted 5 days ago

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