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As 2012 comes to a close, we'll be seeing a lot of lists regarding the best and worst that the year had to offer, as well as some of the most popular things of 2012. Starting things off is BabyCenter.com, who has released the top names for babies in 2012.

Streets are often named after notable people, so one can only imagine how exactly New Portland, Maine residents came up with the name Katie’s Crotch Road.

If you’re having a baby soon and want to avoid giving the child a name everyone else in his or her kindergarten class will have, you may want to check out BabyCenter’s list of this year’s most popular baby names.

Baby name site Nameberry.com released its predictions for 2012, and if you thought the noun trend — like naming kids after apples and other objets — was weird, just wait until you get a load of the hot new adjective fad.

Jacob and Isabella topped the Social Security Administration's annual list of popular baby names, released Thursday. Yes, those are also the names of two main characters in a certain vampire-based romance saga. But before 'Twilight' fans get too cocky, realize that Edward came in at 136 among male baby names this year...