I know that we have many Spanish-speaking readers who follow us from the United States. I imagine that they will have babies or they will be waiting for him and it is quite probable that they bear some of the favorite names included in the list.
BabyCenter en Español, one of the leading sites for Hispanic parents on the web, has revealed a list of the 100 most popular girl names and the 100 most popular boy names of 2007.
The first place is for Santiago and Sofia. They are followed by Sebastián, Diego, Daniel and Samuel for the boys and Valentina, Camila, Isabella and Mariana for the girls.
They say that Latinos who live in an English-speaking country prefer that their children have names that are written the same or similar in both languages with the idea of facilitating their insertion into the cultural life of the country. It is the way parents choose for their children to maintain that bi-culturality without losing their roots.
The funny thing is how the Hispanic culture is slipping into the American since names such as Sofia or Isabella also appear in the list of the 10 most popular names among Anglo-Saxons.
Regarding this, the mixture of cultures and the names we choose for our babies, nowadays the name Mohammed in all its variants is one of the most frequent baby names in countries such as Belgium, Sweden, the United Kingdom and Spain.
Changing third, both in America and in Spain, a tendency that I have noticed is that compound names such as Juan Pablo or María Inés are losing popularity; simple names are preferred.
