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Top baby names for boys and girls in 2012.

Talk about high expectations for a newborn: King and Messiah are among the fastest-rising baby names for American boys. They're just a little behind Major, the boy's name that jumped the most spots on the Social Security Administration's annual list of popular baby names.

Baby names. When did it all get so cutthroat and complicated? In the good old days, you just sat down with a piece of paper, and possibly a baby book, and made a list of choices.

Whitney Casey takes a look at 2010’s most popular names for both boys and girls according to BabyCenter. (Other)

Call it the “Twilight” effect: Names from Stephanie Meyer’s vampire novels and their hit film spin-offs sank their teeth into the list of most popular baby names of 2009, with Jacob and Isabella (the long form of Bella) topping the respective lists for boys and girls, and Cullen rising faster than any other boy’s name.

Researchers have long known that when it comes to baby names, what's "in" keeps getting more popular. But new research by psychologists ...