BREAKING NEWS
Top Arizona baby names in 2012 similar to last year
Photographer: Christopher Furlong
Copyright Getty Images
Posted: 12/24/2012
PHOENIX - Jacob and Sophia will have lots of company when they start kindergarten in about five years.
Those are the top two names for baby boys and girls in Arizona so far this year, matching the top 2 from 2011.
The annual tally of top baby names was compiled by the Arizona Department of Health Services.
Director Will Humble says in a blog post that Liam made the top 10 for the first time, but the rest were all on the list in 2011.
Here are the lists:
GIRLS
1. Sophia
2. Isabella
3. Emma
4. Mia
5. Olivia
6. Emily
7. Ava
8. Abigail
9. Madison
10. Sofia (with an F)
BOYS
1. Jacob
2. Ethan
3. Daniel
4. Liam
5. Alexander
6. Anthony
7. Noah
8. Mason
9. Aiden
10. Michael
You can check out the full list of the top 100 names for girls and boys on the department's website.
Copyright 2012 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
PRINT- Your Region News
Click on the region names in the map below to see news from that region.
RIGHT NOW: Top Stories
-
LIVE VIDEO: Arias speaks to jury
The jury returned to the courtroom Tuesday to decide whether Jodi Arias deserves to die for killing her one-time boyfriend in June 2008.
-
Suspect in abduction, barricade dead
A man wanted in connection with a Monday night Amber Alert in Tolleson has died following a barricade situation in a Phoenix neighborhood.
-
PHOTOS: SWAT destroys PHX home
A SWAT team on Tuesday morning was forced to smash into a Tolleson home where a child-abduction suspect was holding several people hostage.
-
Singer: McDonald's ruined my voice
Jacqueline Simpson, 52, is suing the restaurant chain over a piece of glass she bit into while eating a chicken sandwich.
-
Realization of loss sets in for OK
Kids screamed for their parents and parents hollered their children's names, walking and searching in panic in the parking lot of Briarwood Elementary in Moore, Oklahoma, Monday.
-
Obama offers help for tornado victims
President Barack Obama pledged urgent government help for Oklahoma Tuesday in the wake of "one of the most destructive" storms in the nation's history.
