which u.s. president's last name makes for the best first name for girls

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if you think this is a dumb question you should hear the names of some of my friends' younger female relatives

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Bush	9
Van Buren	9
Hoover	7
McKinley	7
Polk	6
Eisenhower	5
Coolidge	5
Madison	4
Fillmore	4
Arthur	4
Taft	3
Carter	3
Garfield	3
Taylor	2
Nixon	2
Pierce	2
Cleveland	2
Harrison	1
Ford	1
Reagan	1
Hayes	1
Lincoln	1
Harding	1
Adams	0
Buchanan	0
Clinton	0
Kennedy	0
Jefferson	0
Truman	0
Monroe	0
Jackson	0
Wilson	0
Tyler	0
Grant	0
Washington	0

― omar little, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 23:12 (seventeen years ago)

i have known girls named madison, tyler, taylor, kennedy, carter, and reagan.

― omar little, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 23:13 (seventeen years ago)

lately it's been this.

― tipsy mothra, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 23:14 (seventeen years ago)

Garfield ftw

― Annoying Display Name (blueski), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 23:14 (seventeen years ago)

Hoover

― Alex in SF, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 23:15 (seventeen years ago)

Fillmore, clearly

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 23:15 (seventeen years ago)

I knew a girl named Bush. We all had to refer to her by her middle name Ann.

― Joe Petagno's Imagination Station! (Mackro Mackro), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 23:15 (seventeen years ago)

LOL Hoover

― Gavin "Spinner" Mason (carne asada), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 23:15 (seventeen years ago)

pierce

― omar little, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 23:16 (seventeen years ago)

"Hi I'm Fillmore"

"Named after your Father perhapsh?"

― Annoying Display Name (blueski), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 23:16 (seventeen years ago)

it's probably not Taft either

― sonderangerbot, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 23:19 (seventeen years ago)

Nixon bitchez

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 23:19 (seventeen years ago)

no wait Bush for sure lolz

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 23:20 (seventeen years ago)

No Roosevelt? No Johnson? No Credibility!

― Kerm, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 23:22 (seventeen years ago)

coolidge isn't bad. it sounds like sitcom surfer slang. "coolage!"

van buren is kinda classy.

― tipsy mothra, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 23:24 (seventeen years ago)

i feel that Buchanan could work. "Sup Byook?"

― Annoying Display Name (blueski), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 23:25 (seventeen years ago)

hm how did that happen? anyway, sorry if you were gonna vote for roosevelt or johnson, ballot fraud etc

― omar little, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 23:27 (seventeen years ago)

Van Buren

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 23:28 (seventeen years ago)

i feel that Buchanan could work. "Sup Byook?"

Buchan-Ann

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 23:29 (seventeen years ago)

Eisenhower? I hardly know her!

― the whoopi goldberg variations (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 23:30 (seventeen years ago)

Here are the names that have actually cracked the top 1000 for girls in the US:

Madison (debuted: 1985; peaked: #2, 2001-02; currently: #5)
Tyler (debuted: 1984; peaked: #238, 1993; currently: #883)
Taylor (debuted: 1976; peaked: #6, 1994-96; currently: #24)
McKinley (debuted: 2006; peaked: #957, 2006; currently: not on list)
Kennedy (debuted: 1994; peaked: #110, 2007; currently: #110)
Reagan (debuted: 1975; peaked: #138, 2005; currently: #156)

― jaymc, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 23:44 (seventeen years ago)

Roosevelt 2x

― gabbneb, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 23:49 (seventeen years ago)

Van Buren
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, October 22, 2008 7:28 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark

― provincial rube. Which you are (negotiable), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 23:59 (seventeen years ago)

Couldn't decide between Polk, Eisenhower, and Bush

― nabisco, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 23:59 (seventeen years ago)

Stray thought:

Madison debuted in 1985 almost certainly because of Splash and it's a good bet that MTV was responsible for the debut of Kennedy in 1994, but is it possible that Reagan peaked in 2005 because the president had died the year before?

― jaymc, Thursday, 23 October 2008 00:00 (seventeen years ago)

J-q'Adams

― velko, Thursday, 23 October 2008 01:02 (seventeen years ago)

Hoover needs to win this.

― Charlie Rose Nylund, Thursday, 23 October 2008 01:28 (seventeen years ago)

Reagen = THE EXORCIST

― kate78, Thursday, 23 October 2008 01:31 (seventeen years ago)

I am torn between Coolidge and Polk. I married a guy whose last name is Coolidge, but still... POLK!

― Sara R-C, Thursday, 23 October 2008 01:55 (seventeen years ago)

Madison
Tyler
Taylor
McKinley
Kennedy
Reagan

welcome to Ole Miss

― flyover statesman (will), Thursday, 23 October 2008 01:59 (seventeen years ago)

Harding is a sleeper here

― goole, Thursday, 23 October 2008 02:08 (seventeen years ago)

MADISON U CONTRARIAN FUCKS

― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Thursday, 23 October 2008 02:15 (seventeen years ago)

i voted for polk but if i had to actually choose seriously from this list probably mckinley

― thereminimum chips (electricsound), Thursday, 23 October 2008 02:23 (seventeen years ago)

I'm predicting a Bush landslide.

― Millsner, Thursday, 23 October 2008 02:32 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.diabetes.org/ueimages/Arthur-image.gif

― velko, Thursday, 23 October 2008 02:34 (seventeen years ago)

a friend of mine has daughters named mckinley AND denali

― my other son is a zamboni (gbx), Thursday, 23 October 2008 02:48 (seventeen years ago)

Coolidge is the best first name ever, so that.

― z "R" s (Z S), Thursday, 23 October 2008 02:55 (seventeen years ago)

Coolidge Coolidge?

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 23 October 2008 02:57 (seventeen years ago)

Coolidge "Calvin" Coolidge - unimpeachably great

― z "R" s (Z S), Thursday, 23 October 2008 03:16 (seventeen years ago)

MADISON U CONTRARIAN FUCKS

Has Madison penetrated the UK yet? I'm not much of an expert on baby-name trends outside of the US.

― jaymc, Thursday, 23 October 2008 03:21 (seventeen years ago)

I think it's not unheard of. It's the commonest here for a good reason (although there's something non-batshit to be said for 1 or 2 others). We're not talking imagination here, we're talking scarring the lass for life.

― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Thursday, 23 October 2008 03:26 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.themovieblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/macdonald.gif
Note to self: become expert on baby-name trends outside of the U.S - then come back to this thread and offer innovative insights.

― z "R" s (Z S), Thursday, 23 October 2008 03:27 (seventeen years ago)

Madison
Tyler
Taylor
McKinley
Kennedy
Reagan

welcome to Ole Miss

― flyover statesman (will), Wednesday, October 22, 2008 8:59 PM (1 hour ago)

LOL

I voted Pierce.

― Joe the C.R.E.E.P. Operative (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 23 October 2008 03:31 (seventeen years ago)

tyler or madison are my votes, yet they are now common place!

― Wiggy Woo, Thursday, 23 October 2008 03:47 (seventeen years ago)

so did omar schedule this poll's closing because he knew it was going to be rendered totally obsolete the following day

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 23 October 2008 04:01 (seventeen years ago)

POLK for sure

― baaderonixx, Thursday, 23 October 2008 08:28 (seventeen years ago)

http://media.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2006/aug/mtv/kennedy.jpg

― Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse (kenan), Thursday, 23 October 2008 08:31 (seventeen years ago)

taft punk

― thandie newman (get bent), Thursday, 23 October 2008 08:33 (seventeen years ago)

Polk is a beautiful name, but then so is Arthur

― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 23 October 2008 09:15 (seventeen years ago)

I voted Taft, just because one day I'd like to meet one.

― CharlieNo4, Thursday, 23 October 2008 10:30 (seventeen years ago)

You guys need to vote for a president Zamboni double quick.

― Dead Cat Bounce (Ed), Thursday, 23 October 2008 10:32 (seventeen years ago)

president dicks

― ILX Systern (ken c), Thursday, 23 October 2008 10:51 (seventeen years ago)

Could Bush ever take off?

― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 23 October 2008 10:57 (seventeen years ago)

No, but it might catch on. YOUR TEETH! ba-dum

― Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse (kenan), Thursday, 23 October 2008 11:25 (seventeen years ago)

no word of a lie we had a woman working here called 'Anita Bush'

think about it

― Ant Attack |=| (Ste), Thursday, 23 October 2008 12:48 (seventeen years ago)

McKinley actually a popular name wtf
voted HOOVER.

― Pottie Skippen (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 23 October 2008 19:13 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Monday, 3 November 2008 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

lol hoover

― Surmounter, Monday, 3 November 2008 01:07 (seventeen years ago)

HOOVER v BUSH
for your little girl's name

― rubisco (Abbott), Monday, 3 November 2008 01:15 (seventeen years ago)

This is going to be a massive landslide for Bush, beating Hoover into second place and Monroe into third.

― Matt DC, Monday, 3 November 2008 01:39 (seventeen years ago)

Carter you fules.

― ian, Monday, 3 November 2008 01:52 (seventeen years ago)

How is Polk pronounced?

― 'Mabus' from the hilarious Nostradamus prophecies (Batty), Monday, 3 November 2008 04:12 (seventeen years ago)

A McKinley would be rich, surely.

― don't bite your friends (sunny successor), Monday, 3 November 2008 04:15 (seventeen years ago)

and play tennis

― Surmounter, Monday, 3 November 2008 04:47 (seventeen years ago)

in whites!

― Surmounter, Monday, 3 November 2008 04:47 (seventeen years ago)

mckinley hendricks

― Surmounter, Monday, 3 November 2008 04:48 (seventeen years ago)

mckinley fields?

― Surmounter, Monday, 3 November 2008 04:48 (seventeen years ago)

i kind of love this non-exisitant McKinley already

― don't bite your friends (sunny successor), Monday, 3 November 2008 14:32 (seventeen years ago)

I remember a few years back someone on ilx linked to an article involving some right wing wackos and one of them had named her some Cheney. Cheney would probably be a better girl name than a boy name.

― "John Kerry dissed me, I'm trippin!" (Nicole), Monday, 3 November 2008 14:44 (seventeen years ago)

Son not "some", gah.

― "John Kerry dissed me, I'm trippin!" (Nicole), Monday, 3 November 2008 14:44 (seventeen years ago)

It has to be Polk, given that it is Polk Salad Annie's first name.

― The Real Dirty Vicar, Monday, 3 November 2008 22:34 (seventeen years ago)

I think I would enjoy being named Pierce. Tho my name I was granted at birth better befits a Campbell's Soup kid-looking type person like yrs truly (Abbi3).

― rubisco (Abbott), Monday, 3 November 2008 22:36 (seventeen years ago)

Oh DIG IT it's freaking ME:

http://www.camdenmatters.org/photos/logo_rescue_recess.jpg

― rubisco (Abbott), Monday, 3 November 2008 22:38 (seventeen years ago)

I can't remember what I voted for! I'm guessing it was either "Eisenhower" or "Van Buren."

If I were being serious I might actually argue for Nixon.

― nabisco, Monday, 3 November 2008 22:38 (seventeen years ago)

yeah nixon is kind of a great name -dicks

― don't bite your friends (sunny successor), Monday, 3 November 2008 22:39 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Tuesday, 4 November 2008 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

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