My friend Hunter Walk was a recent guest blogger on Google's Blog. He has some Modern advice for parents-to-be when is come to optimizing baby names for modern parents to be.
To dig into this further, check out the Top Five Male Names for Births in 2003 by state (i'll give you a hint, "Auren" isn't one of them). You'll see a lot of Jacobs -- they're everywhere. and you'll see some cultural changes (like a lot of Joses in Texas and California).
