Recently, Douban, Little Red Book, and Tiger Flutter have successively appeared a lot of "name-seeking posts", hoping that the majority of netizens will name their upcoming "tiger baby".
It is not easy to take a name / Source: Little Red Book
For many people, giving a child a good name is an important and difficult thing, often just think of a good name, and find that who is who has the same class" already has a "same model".
When Xiao Gray (pseudonym) was studying, there were quite a few classmates with similar names: "In the same class, there will be Jia Xin, Jia Qi, Jia Ran, Jia Wei, Jia Hao, as well as Jun yi, Jun Lang, Jun Xin ..."
In order to understand (avoid) the explosive names of newborns in the country in recent years, we found the "National Name Report" released by the Household Administration Research Center of the Ministry of Public Security. Since 2018, the Household Administration Research Center has relied on the big data of the population information management system to conduct statistical analysis of the use of newborn names and other words nationwide, and has released a national name report for four consecutive years.
Below, let's take a look at what the explosive names of these 4-year-old newborns are, and what are similar or different.
The 10 most popular names for newborns
There are 4 on the list every year
Every year, the "National Name Report" publishes the 10 hottest words for newborn names last year.
We compared the 4-year report and found that from 2018 to 2021, 4 of the 10 words with the highest frequency of newborn names were loved every year - "Ze", "Zi", "Zi" and "Yu".
"One", "Han", "Xin" and "Jia" are also very popular, and they have been listed 3 times respectively. The homophones "辰" and "辰" are on the list twice each.
Overall, most of these words mean "bright", "flickering", "rejoicing", "vigorous", "majestic" and other positive meanings.
Some are still homophones. For example, "Jia" and "Jia", "Chen" and "Chen", "Yu" and "Rain", "Zi" and "Zi".
These words don't feel like much, but if they are mixed and matched back and forth, things are different.
Male newborn hit name TOP10
Specifically, let's take a look at the top 10 most popular names of different genders.
The first is male newborns.
The 10 most popular names of the year are indeed a combination of popular words. The word "Mu", which is newly on the list this year, has contributed 3 popular names. Among them, "Muchen" topped the list with 23,000 users, and "Muchen" ranked third.
Using the 4.681 million male newborns registered by the public security organs in 2021, it is equivalent to 5 out of every 1,000 little boys called "Mu Chen".
In addition, half of the popular names are the names that have been on the list in the past three years. For example, "Haoyu", "Haoran" and "Yuxuan", which have been ranked in the top 3 for 4 years, have also been on the list for 4 consecutive years, which is simply deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
A simple classification will find that the explosive names of baby boys in recent years are almost "Mu", "Hao", "Yu", "Yi" and "Zi" group word contests. And there are not enough words, you can also use homophones to make up. The important thing is to fold the buff in the name, both happy and bright; both to be ambitious and to learn with a full belly.
Mu X: Mu Chen, Mu Chen, Mu Yang;
Hao X: Haoran, Haoyu;
Yu X: Yu Xuan, Yu Hang, Yu Ze ;
Yi X: Yi Chen, Yi Chen, Yi Ze;
Zi (梓)X: Zi Xuan, Zi Rui (Zi Rui), Zi Mo, Zi Hao (Zi Hao);
Who would have thought that this generation of parents took the name, avoiding the previous generation of the public and ordinary words, but did not avoid the heavy name army of this generation.
In the past, everyone had a person named "Zhang Wei", and 20 years later, everyone would have a person around them, "Haoyu", "Yichen" or "Zixuan".
Female newborn hit name TOP10
Compared with the names of baby boys, baby girls have repeatedly listed more explosive names in recent years.
From 2018 to 2021, among the most popular baby girl names, the five names of "Yinuo", "Ino", "Zihan", "Yutong" and "Xinyi" have ranked in the top 10 of the list for 4 consecutive years.
Among them, "Yinuo" has not fallen out of the top two for 4 years, becoming the biggest winner. Although "Xinyi" fell to 8th this year, it has been ranked third before, and classics such as "Jiaxin", one of the favorite names of Cantonese people, "Jiaxin".
Overall, the name of the baby girl in recent years is like a crazy continuous look. For example, this is "Yinuo", this is also "Ino"; this is "Yutong", which is also "Yutong"; this is "Kexin", which is also "Kexin"...
On the surface, it looks a lot like it, and even reads the same, but it is not the same name. The difference may only be slightly distinguished by dialects.
Many people speculate that the reason why the names of newborn hits are becoming more and more similar is because the parents of the post-90s generation are deeply influenced by film and television dramas and online novels.
They were deeply influenced by Qiong Yao opera in their childhood, and when they grew up, they often watched the bazong network articles, and also coincided with the revival of classical Chinese culture such as Xian Xia drama in recent years. Therefore, the trend of newborn names will go from "Qiong Yao Wind" to "Network Style" and then to the current "National Style".
In other words, the male protagonist who once admired and the female protagonist who wanted to become became the name of his baby when he grew up.
Xiao Qi (pseudonym) is because he feels that the name "Moyuan" in "Three Lives and Three Worlds and Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms" is very special, so when he named his son, he deliberately chose the word "ink". "In addition to the strokes being a bit much, I feel quite special, and there is also a bookish atmosphere, which can also be explained as not conforming to the rules."
As for why "Yuan" is not used, Xiao Qi said that it is because whether it is Mandarin or dialect pronunciation, the pronunciation of "Yuan" is the same as "wrong", and the elders of the family feel that it is not very auspicious, so they reject it.
"Newborn Name Refers to north"
(Brain Hole Open Edition)
Looking back, the ages are different, and the most frequently used names reflect the background of the times and popular culture.
Now we hope to explore the vast universe of "Haoyu" and "Yuxuan", probably in the 50s to commemorate the founding of New China "Founding" and "Jianhua".
Therefore, how to find another way and take a unique name is imminent.
DT Jun opened his mind to this and studied the "Newborn Name Finger North" (for reference only).
1. Wrong "province" uses common compound surnames.
Although it is usually the surname of the father, mother, or grandparents, the law also means that other surnames can be tried if there is a valid reason.
Judging from the "2021 National Name Report", the characteristics of common compound surname "settlement" are very prominent, and the distribution of the compound surname population in individual provinces is relatively concentrated. For example, 33.86% of the population with the compound surname "Ouyang" is distributed in Hunan, and 75.60% of the population with the compound surname "Linghu" is distributed in Guizhou.
Some netizens also went to examine the evidence for this reason, and felt that 70% of Ling Huchong was from Guizhou.
Considering that the number of people with compound surnames is not large (the largest number of compound surnames "Ouyang" is only 1.117 million in the country, and there are 700,000 newborns with the surname of "Wang" alone in 2020), and they are concentrated in some specific areas, you may wish to use "province" by mistake.
For example, friends in Shanxi can consider using the common compound surnames of Guangdong "Ouyang", "Situ" and "Murong". In this way, not only is the name very rare in the local area, but it also has a heroic and righteous martial arts atmosphere.
However, when naming names with multiple surnames, it is advisable to avoid the most popular names.
Names such as "Murong Haoyu" and "Shangguan Yichen", although it is not easy to collide with names, it is easy for people to instantly dream back to "Let's See the Meteor Shower", and there is also a sense of network text that comes to the nose of the rich second generation of the young master of A City. (Did not say that the network text is not good meaning, the dog head to save life)
2. Open the pattern and start a two- or four-word name.
Although two- or four-character names can also be seen in daily life, they are still a minority compared to three-word names.
According to the 2020 National Name Report, three-character names currently account for more than 90%, while two-character names and four-character names account for 6.3% and 1.6% respectively.
In the past, due to the deep popularity of clan and family name culture, when the older generation took names, the format was often "generation representative word + single word", so in the 1960s, there were more three-character names. Later, after the reform and opening up, the concept of generational division was gradually diluted, and people pursued conciseness and easy memorization of names, so the proportion of the number of two-word names gradually increased. After entering 2000, due to the rapid growth of the population size, in order to reduce the repetition rate, the three-character name gradually increased.
To put it another way, today's two-word name and four-word name are actually more precious.
If you feel that 2 words are not easy to play, and you can't include all the meanings and wishes you want to pin down, you can also consider 4 words.
At present, one of the relatively common ones is a single surname + 3 characters, such as "Yi Qianxi" (father surname + 烊千玺, meaning to welcome the arrival of the millennium); the other is a compound surname + 2 characters of the name, such as "Qin Niu Zhengwei" (father surname + mother surname + Zhengwei, because the zodiac sign is a tiger, the tiger is threatening).
3. Reverse the operation and reuse the popular name of the past.
This is a practice that may be disliked now, but may be really fragrant later.
Although looking back at the past names, it will feel a bit tacky, but if you dig hard, there are still many special names.
Imagine that when there are "Yinuo" and "Zimo" everywhere, and your name is "Deming" and "Yuzhen", the feeling of unique and retro inheritance is not quite like that?
By the way, popular science has a cold knowledge: in the classic love movie "Zhiming and Chunjiao", Zhang Zhiming's name is one of the top 10 names used the most in 1959 and before.
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Author | Zheng Xiaohui
Edited | Tang Yeqin
Design | Zheng Shuya