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If you want your newborn to stand apart from the crowd, maybe naming it Jacob or Sophia isn’t the best way.

According to a list published today by the Social Security Administration, those were the most popular names for male and female children born in 2011. It was a bigger year for Sophia than Jacob, though—Jacob has sat atop the male list for 13 years, while Sophia only now managed to knock Isabella back to second.

On the male side, the top 10 was rounded out by Mason, William, Jayden, Noah, Michael, Ethan, Alexander, Aiden, and Daniel; on the female side, it was Isabella, Emma, Olivia, Ava, Emily, Abigail, Madison, Mia, and Chloe.

If you want a depressing reality check on how popular culture influence name choices, consider this from the press release announcing the findings:

Mason, a relatively popular name since the 1990s, had never cracked the top 25 until 2010, when it hit number 12. Some may attribute this year’s rise to number two to reality TV star Kourtney Kardashian’s son. We note, moreover, that Mason has been a regular top-five name in Wisconsin for many years, undoubtedly a tribute to strong-legged Green Bay Packer kicker Mason Crosby.

Many pop-culture naming trends appear in a popular feature of Social Security’s baby names website–the “Change in Name Popularity” page. This year’s winners for biggest jump in popularity in the Top 500 are Brantley and Briella.

The fastest riser on the girls’ list may come from Briella Calafiore, the blonde reality star hairdresser from cable TV’s “Jerseylicious” and its spinoff, “Glam Fairy.”

For some real fun, the Social Security Administration has broken down top names by states and territories. (Most lists are from 2010, though 2011 lists should be loaded later this week.) In D.C., for example, the top male name is William and top female name Madison; for Maryland it’s Jacob and Sophia, while in Virginia it’s William and Olivia.

You can even check the relative popularity of your own name. My moniker, for one, has never been all that popular—in 2011 it sat at 262nd, while in 2000 it was at 175th. The highest it ever got was 62nd in 1963 and 63rd the year after.