Yeah Jacob has actually been number one SINCE 1999. I think its more that the Twilight novels have characters named trendy names, than that they made them popular.
WRONG. I know the cause here, and correlation
is always causation. Dur.
Isabella, though. Can't really argue with that, right?
Actually, I have friends who have planned for years to name their first baby girl Isabella. It's the middle name of both of their mothers.
I don't know. I think somehow sometimes there is just a mass consciousness thing where the whole world collectively takes notice of a name. I mean, I'm not saying that
Twilight has nothing to do with it, but it's like suddenly a bunch of people find a pretty name in the same year that they think is unique -- and then it turns out to be ridiculously popular. Or, well, moreso than it was before. It's like when you've been thinking of an old song you haven't heard for
years and suddenly radio stations cannot stop playing it for the next month.