THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BABY NAMES IN THE WORLD
British baby website My 1st Years has partnered with Dr. Bodo Winter, Associate Professor of Cognitive Linguistics from the University of Birmingham, to reveal the Most Beautiful Baby Names (* Well, one of them better not be “Bodo.”.) The science is based on sound symbolism, which is the idea that some words sound better than others based on the resemblance between the sound of a word and its meaning. Experts analyzed hundreds of baby names from the UK and the United States to discover which were the Most Beautiful:
– Bjork. (Just kidding!)
OK, here we go:
– Questlove (No, just kidding again.)
OK, here we go. Number One:
– Snoop. (Nope, I just had to get that out.)
OK, really, here are the Top 20 Most Beautiful Names in the United States as Scientifically Determined By Science:
– Male: Matthew, Julian, William, Isaiah, Leo, Levi, Joseph, Theo, Isaac, Samuel, Miles, James, Elijah, Luke, Noah, Santiago, Owen, Logan, Liam, Roman. (* What, no Adolf?)
– Female: Sophia, Zoe, Everly, Sophie, Riley, Ivy, Paisley, Willow, Ellie, Emily, Evelyn, Eva, Elena, Chloe, Nova, Penelope, Lucy, Lily, Olivia, Naomi.
In the UK, these are the Top 20 Most Beautiful Names:
– Male: Zayn, Jesse, Charlie, Louie, William, Freddie, George, Ali, Daniel, Riley, Omar, Arthur, Rowan, Leo, Joseph, Theo, Harry, Noah, Toby and Jude. (* Oh, wait, I’m sorry – those are the names of the newest Korean Boy Band.)
– Female: Sophia, Zoe, Rosie, Sophie, Ivy, Phoebe, Violet, Willow, Hannah, Ellie, Emily, Evelyn, Rosie, Eliza, Eva, Chloe, Penelope, Lucy, Ruby, Lily
* So, rename your babies quick, before everyone else jumps on the bandwagon.
* Do you think anyone named Penelope is ever going to be CEO of a multinational corporation?
* All that work figuring out what the most beautiful names are, and all anyone wants to be called these days is They or Them.
