Your top 5 boy/girl names

For any reason

I will start

Boys
Steve
Jake
Kurt
Mark
Dean

Girls
Sarah
Laura
Clare
Lauren
Amy

Boys
Porter
Reuben
Duncan
Hendrix
Sawyer

Girls
Calliope
Avery
Clarice
Genevieve
Charlotte

Boys:

Josh
Sam
Michael
David
Patrick

Girls:

Ana
Mya
Sophie
Gabrielle
Elizabeth

Girls:
Sonia (or any variant. My wife happens to have this name, but it’s a name I loved before I met her)
Katarina (one of my daughter’s names. Actually, it’s the Polish diminutive Kasia “KAH-shah” that I really like.)
Casimira
Éva
Svetlana

(I apparently have a thing for foreign-sounding names)

Boys:
(Here I will be boring)

Michael
James
David
John
Christopher

Once when I was taking the touristy riverboat ride in New Orleans, I heard one old gal say to another: “look they have one of those steam-powered organs, you know, a kaleidoscope.”

I heard a girls name; Creole. I thought it was cute.
Boys names; Ronin, Aryton, I wish one my kids would name a boy Beck, for obvious reasons.
I have a niece named Wren, I just love that name.

Boys
Eli
Thomas
Henry
August
Michael

girls
Mary-something (which could be all five choices in and of itself)
Anna
Natasha
Louise
Amy

Thomas
James
William
Edward
Joshua

Annabel
Eloise
Alice
Annaliese
Eliana

My boys name picks are dead traditional, and the girls are very samey. :slight_smile:

I read somewhere that along the Mississippi it was pronounced variously as kal-eye-oh-pee, kally-ope, or steam pai-anna.