Dejah fails to crack Top 1000 popular baby names for 9th consecutive year

According to data for 2009 just released by the U.S. Social Security Administration, the female name Dejah failed to make the list of the Top 1000 popular baby names for the ninth consecutive year. Here’s all the info on Dejah, going back 100 years:

Year of birth / Rank in Top 1000

• 2000 -- #927
• 1999 -- #672
• 1998 -- #784
• 1996 -- #983

Wonder what’s going to happen in 2012!

Sci-Fi baby names: Mary

Name: Mary

Origin: 20th-century Earth

Source: Invaders from Mars (1953)

Biography: Eerily efficient 1950s housewife Mary MacLean finds herself transformed into an eerily efficient alien drone when her body is snatched by Martians holed up in a sand pit behind her house in the 1953 feature Invaders from Mars.

Trivia: If you suspect your newborn may be a Martian pod person, look for the telltale X-shaped scar on the back of its neck.

Variants: Marie

[Taken directly from Sci-Fi Baby Names: 500 Out-of-This-World Baby Names from Anakin to Zardoz, by Robert Schnakenberg (2007)]

Sci-Fi baby names: Iris

Name: Iris

Origin: 20th-century Earth

Source: The Angry Red Planet (1960)

Biography: Amnesiac exobiologist Iris Ryan is one of only two survivors of an ill-fated mission to Mars in the 1960’s The Angry Red Planet. Her hypnosis-induced recollections of the expedition include encounters with several surreal Martian creatures -- such as an intelligent amoeba -- and much panicked screaming.

Quote: “I know this is funny for a scientist, but maybe there are some things better left unknown.”

[Taken directly from Sci-Fi Baby Names: 500 Out-of-This-World Baby Names from Anakin to Zardoz, by Robert Schnakenberg (2007)]

Sci-Fi baby names: Jeffrey

Name: Jeffrey

Origin: Mars Colony

Source: Babylon 5 (TV series, 1994-1998)

Biography: Jeffrey Sinclair is the senior military officer on the Babylon 5 space station. Given the unenviable task of keeping the peace among the often hostile entities who inhabit or pass through the deep-space diplomatic port of call, Sinclair is a sober man dedicated to the cause of galactic harmony.

Quote: “It can be a dangerous place, but it’s out last best hope for peace."

Variants: Geoffrey

[Taken directly from Sci-Fi Baby Names: 500 Out-of-This-World Baby Names from Anakin to Zardoz, by Robert Schnakenberg (2007)]