
Originally Posted by
neloon
I see there hasn't been a sea-change, looks like those names are on the 2015 list too.
BTW I read an interesting article about baby-names in the US, how fads happen for particular names.
The interesting thing was that what seemed logical on the surface wasn't borne out by the reality.
So... there would be a famous politician or movie star or book or film character and then their name would become popular for babies.
Seems logical: there's a name in the public eye, and people start naming their babies after the famous person or character.
But when they searched through birth records they found, over and over, that the name was already getting popular before the famous person had risen to fame, before the book was published or the movie began production that featured a character with a name which became a fad. Yes the baby-name peaked in popularity when the famous name was in the news, but it's popularity had already been on the rise.
This happened to my wife and I. We had chosen the name "Ross" for our boy long before he was born. It's a fairly rare name here, and at the time I'd only known one Ross, the son of local Scottish immigrants.
But around the time our Ross was born suddenly the name was all over the news, with a Ross running for President of the US and a Ross character on a hit TV show. I'm guessing that people, seeing when our Ross was born, might guess he's named for one of those people.
Last edited by OC Richard; 17th January 18 at 05:15 AM.
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