美国最流行的小孩名字

美国最流行的小孩名字 Popular Culture Inspires Top US Baby Names 美国最流行的小孩名字 There's a better-than-random chance that babies born in the United States last year, 2010, were named "Bella"or "Edward." Those were among the 10 most popular girls' and boys' names, respectively, and it was more than a coincidence that they are also leading characters in the wildly popular "Twilight" series of romans and loves films about vampires. The choice of baby names, you see, can be somewhat faddish. Certain ones, such as "Tiffany" and "Justin," which were popular in the 1980s, become the rage, then fall from fashion The other day, a VOA staffer met a little boy, age two, named "Aiden." Our colleague had never heard that name. Turns out, Aiden is the most popular boy baby's name this year, as reported by the website BabyCenter.com. For what it's worth, Aiden was a leading character on the highly-rated TV show "Sex and the City." It certainly does appear that pop culture influences Americans' choice of baby names. Isabella, the third-most-popular girl's name, for instance, may be an adaptation of Bella, the vampire . "Jacob" is in the top 10, too. That's the good-looking werewolf in the "Twilight" movies series. Curiously, "Sophia"ranks first among this year's girl-baby names, and "Ava" is fifth. Sophia Loren and Ava Gardner were glamorous actresses on the silver screen half a century ago. But, as another colleague, who follows romance novels, told us, "Old-fashioned names, especially for girls, are big." We should point out that the top-10 list of boy and girl names refers almost exclusively to white, non-Hispanic babies. You won't find many "Aidens" or "Masons" on the African-American and Latino baby-name lists. 2010年美国出生的小孩有一个优先的机会被取名为“贝拉”或“爱德华”。 这两个名字分别是10大最受欢迎的女孩和男孩名字中的一个。无独有偶，这恰恰是广受欢迎 的描述吸血鬼的暮光系列的小说和电影中男女主角的名字。 从中可以看出，小孩名字的选择在某种程度上也是追随潮流的。 例如“蒂梵尼”和“贾斯汀”在20世纪80年代是很流行的，紧接着取这两个名字的人越来 越多，随后也就慢慢退出了流行。 不久前，一个VOA工作人员遇见了一个两岁的小孩叫做“艾登”。我们的同事从来没听过这 个名字。据婴儿中心网站报道:原来，艾登是今年男孩名字中最受欢迎的一个。值得一提的 是，艾登是高收视率电视剧“欲望城市”的主角名字。 毋庸置疑，流行文化会影响美国小孩名字的选择。例如，第三受欢迎的女孩名字伊莎贝拉很可能是根据暮光电影中吸血鬼的爱人“贝拉”而改编的。“雅各布”也位于十大最受欢迎的名字之列，这也是暮光系列作品中属于狼族的英俊变形者的名字。 奇妙地是，“索菲娅”在今年最受欢迎的女孩名字中排第一，“艾娃”排第五。索菲娅?罗兰和艾娃?加德纳已是半个世纪前大荧幕上迷人的女演员了。 但是，另一个爱好浪漫爱情小说的同事告诉我们:“过去流行的名字，特别是过去流行的女孩的名字现在是很受欢迎的。” 我们要特别说明的是这十大最受欢迎的名字只是针对美国白人的孩子来说的。你不会在美国黑人和拉丁美洲的孩子名字的名单上看到很多类似“艾登斯”和“梅森”之类的名字。