Most Popular Baby Names of 2004

Here is the list of the most popular baby names of 2004. The names are ranked by popularity with the most common pronunciation listed first (where applicable). Most kanji have several different readings, therefore the name can be read in several different ways. 

In addition, since there are thousands of kanji to choose from, even the same name can usually be written using many different kanji combinations (some have more than 50 combinations). I have included the top 10 names by reading at the bottom of the page. Click here to learn more about Japanese names.

Rank	Boys	Rank	Girls
1	蓮 Ren	1	さくら  Sakura
2	颯太 Souta/Fuuta	1	美咲  Misaki
3	翔太 Shouta	3	凛  Rin
3	拓海 Takumi	4	陽菜  Hina/Haruna/Hana
5	大翔 Hroto/Haruto/Yamato Daito/Daiki/Taito	5	七海 Nanami
6	颯 Hayate/Hayato/Sou/Ryuu	5	未来 Miku/Mirai/Miki/Mikuru
7	翔 Shou/Kakeru/Tsubasa	7	花音 Kanon
7	優斗 Yuuto/Haruto/Hiroto	8	葵 Aoi
7	陸 Riku	9	結衣 Yui
10	翼 Tsubasa/Tasuku	10	百花 Momoka
		10	ひなた Hinata

Top 10 Names by Reading

Rank	Boys	Rank	Girls
1	Yuuki	1	Momoka
2	Yuuto	2	Haruka
3	Haruto	3	Ayaka
4	Souta	4	Misaki
5	Kouki	5	Sakura
6	Takumi	6	Nanami
7	Kouta	7	Yui
8	Ryouta	8	Hina
9	Haruki	9	Rin
10	Kaito Riku	10	Haruka Honoka

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Cornmeal is popular in Bulgaria, especially in breads or porridge, like kachamak. It can be served as a gruel or baked in the oven with cheeses, sliced and served as a main course or side dish. There are many variations, including this vegetarian one.

Makes 4-6 servings Baked Polenta (Kachamak)

Prep Time: 25 minutesCook Time: 30 minutesIngredients:1 cup coarse-ground cornmeal4 cups water4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) butter1 1/2 cups Bulgarian feta or brinza cheese, drained and crumbled1/2 cup grated kashkaval cheesePreparation: Bring water and a generous pinch of salt to boil. Slowly stir in the cornmeal. Bring back to a boil, cover, reduce heat and simmer for 25 minutes, stirring frequently.

Heat oven to 375 degrees. Stir butter, feta or brinza cheese into cooked cornemal and add salt and pepper to taste. Pour into a greased 8-inch springform pan. Bake 30 minutes or until firm.

Serve warm or at room temperature garnished with kashkaval cheese.

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In talks that reached a stalemate this month, negotiators for the Screen Actors Guild, representing 120,000 performers, have demanded that work distributed on the Internet be covered by a SAG contract, and late on Saturday SAG's national board voted 68-0 in favor of a resolution reaffirming that idea.

"We have been telling the industry how important it is for all new media productions under our contract to be done union, and how important residuals (fees) for made-for new media programming are when programs are re-run on new media," SAG National Executive Director and Chief Negotiator Doug Allen, said in a statement.

"I am very pleased that our National Board today unanimously confirmed these essential principles in support of our National Negotiating Committee," Allen said.

SAG's National Board of Directors adopted the resolution stating a "core principle" of the guild is that "no non-union work shall be authorized to be done under any (SAG) agreement and that all work under a (SAG) contract, regardless of budget level, shall receive fair compensation when reused."

The statement said the resolution "represents guidance" from the National Board to the contract negotiators.

Those negotiators came under fire last week when a rival faction within SAG launched a campaign to wrest control from leaders they blame for the stalemated contract talks.

A bloc of SAG members calling itself Unite for Strength unveiled a slate of candidates who will seek to gain a majority on the national governing board in elections set for September 18.

Industry watchers said the challenge meant the roughly four-week-old standoff between the union and studios would drag on, and the board's vote strengthened that idea.

The old SAG contract expired hours after the studios, represented by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, presented SAG with a "final" offer on June 30. SAG countered with a new proposal on July 10, but the studios refused to budge, insisting they were done negotiating.

Late Saturday, the AMPTP issued a statement saying the refusal of SAG's negotiators to accept AMPTP's final offer means "actors will continue to work indefinitely under the expired contract."

A SAG spokeswoman said there were no new developments on Sunday, while the AMPTP posted on its Web site a tabulation of wages lost by SAG members because they have not taken the AMPTP's final offer, which calls for some wage increases.

(Editing by Todd Eastham)

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The seafloor has been widely mapped by shipborne magnetometers, allowing us to delineate zones of normal and reversed magnetic polarity. As the oceanic plates grow, like paper coming from a fax machine, the magnetic zones form distinct stripes on the map. This map is colored according to the magnetic chron, calibrated against absolute age in million years before present (Ma).

Very little ocean floor is older than 125 million years, as shown by the blue areas. Almost all of it has been subducted, carried down into the mantle and recycled. So while this map is great for studying plate motions in the recent geologic past, for times before the Cretaceous we must rely more and more on paleomagnetic studies on the continents.

See Müller et al.’s article, “Digital Isochrons of the World’s Ocean Floor” (PDF), for more about this map and other images.

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