Why Do All Babies Have Unique Names Now?
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sources:
The Age of the Unique Baby Name – https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2022/02/most-popular-baby-names-unique/621491/
The Paradox of Baby Names – https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/08/the-paradox-of-baby-names/402550/
The Most Popular Baby Names Aren’t All That Popular Anymore – https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/05/the-most-popular-baby-names-arent-all-that-popular-anymore/362007/
Why Some Parents Turn Boys’ Names Into Girls’ Names – https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/09/girls-names-for-baby-boys/569962/
Amazon Killed the Name Alexa – https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/08/amazon-alexa-popular-name/619794/
ISIS Has Recently Become a Popular Girls’ Name – https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/09/isis-girls-name-popular/380532/
The Rise of Gender-Neutral Names Isn’t What It Seems – https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/03/gender-neutral-baby-names-popularity/673464/
How We Got All This Great Data on American Baby Name Popularity – https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/04/how-we-got-all-this-great-data-on-american-baby-name-popularity/274989/
The Complex Art of Naming a Baby – https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2023/06/baby-name-trends/674514/
What baby names say about everything else – https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2013/04/13/what-baby-names-say-about-everything-else/Ln9kVOl9haGhFoHwQv9h7I/story.html?s_campaign=sm_tw
The Science of Baby-Name Trends – https://daily.jstor.org/science-baby-names/
The psychological effects of growing up with an extremely common name – https://qz.com/978760/popular-baby-names-the-psychology-of-growing-up-with-an-extremely-common-name#:~:text=And%20so%20giving%20your%20child,to%20be%20likable%20and%20trustworthy.
time stamps:
00:00 – intro
04:16 – the history of baby names
19:32 – unisex names
25:52 – the rise of unique baby names
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Turkish soap operas were very popular in Chile and there are soooo mannyyyyy girls named after characters. It was mainly lower income households(which there are a lot of here)
My great-great-grandfather named my great-grandfather a name he read on the newspaper — Larry. We’re Brazilian, mind you, so that’s a wildly uncommon name, it’s a foreign name. We don’t even pronounce it the English way, which became their nicknames. My great-grandfather named my grandad the same thing, and my grandad repeated it with my father. Had I been born a boy, I’d have been named the same as well, but thankfully I became a Carolina (which isn’t an unique name but it is curiously uncommon in my generation, in all my school years there was only one other Carolina)
I just wish people would think more that one day their baby could be a CEO for a company, and people will have a hard time taking them seriously when their name is Toaster Waffle Lightsaber. Like, they're not babies forever.
As someone who grew up with a unique name (at least where I lived in the 90s) and I just got so sick of no one ever being able to spell of pronounce my name correctly so it’s definitely a grass is always greener scenario 😂
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My middle name is Coraline and it gets misspelled constantly. As Caroline or similar. But I do get complimented on it as well.
I'm so glad that i live in Germany where sensible people don't allow this crap. Moste if them aren't Names just random words mixed together…. Like in video games
My name is Madonna, grew up in the 90s with everyone assuming I was named after the singer, but it’s a family name. In fact, I’m one of those rare female juniors that Jordan mentioned. Now in my thirties I gave up explaining that I’m not named after a celebrity and just let people think that 😅 I have met two other Madonnas so far and they were both much older than me and told me they were named after the Virgin Mary.
My name was fairly unique for my age range but I always hated it when I was a kid. It’s a traditionally upper class name and I grew up in an industry town. I was self conscious that it made me seem like a snob. Even when I was really young I was somehow aware of that.
This unique name thing is funny for me, a brazillian, because here this trend of rich people naming their children unique names is very, very recent, I would say like, 2, 3 years. On the other hand, low income, usually black people (bc the majority of poor people here are, unfortunatelly, black), were always the ones that named their children unique names (Funnily enough, they usually are brazillian adaptations of american names). Also, having a second name is suuuper common here, esp for girls. There are 2 names that are usually combined with other ones, so much that is actually kinda rare to see them by themselves: Ana and Maria. There are millions of Ana Clara, Maria Júlia, Maria Eduarda, Ana Júlia, etc.
It’s becoming less and less common to have multiple kids in the same class with the same name, which I know is one reason parents are choosing less common names. When I was in primary school, 1/3 of the kids in my year at school shared a name with at least one other child in that year, now, teaching kids of the same age, there are maybe one or two pairs per year. It’s not uncommon for me to type a child’s pretty normal first name into one of the pupil search engines and the results to show 1-5 children with that name in the school of over 400 kids.
I grew up with a unique first name. Well, sorta unique. Rochelle. I’m Mexican. Every single black person I’ve told what my first name is make fun of me cause I do not look like a Rochelle. Maria would have been better suited for me.
I do not like having a common name because I feel like all my life I’ve been the less popular person with that name lol. So like someone else is the default and I’m the extra
happy birthday editor cath!!!!! i love your edits they often make me laugh
In Germany the government actually steps in quite frequently. The government institution responsible for the registration of newborns actually can and will forbid you to use the name you have selected if it is too wild and will potentially harm the baby in the future as it holds potential for bullying or discrimination. And the government actually publishes some of the rejected names every year and it’s hilarious!
I am a fierce defender of the theory that these crazy influencer baby names are simply stage names and their kids have regular normal names. It’s just that the crazy names are for ‘security’ reasons.
my experience is the antithesis of michael's because living with a uniquely-spelled name gave me so much headaches (i.e with doctors or teachers never knowing how to pronounce it) but in recent years ive come to love my name! it's like helena but with an apostrophe (h'leina) 😀
Wait, now I wanna know the beef with Jamie Oliver. Spill the tea!
I chose a baby name which is very rare in England (where we live) but more common in Scotland and Ireland so I thought we had a pretty unique name. When my toddler started nursery I was told 'we already have a (insert name here)' It's impossible to be original!
I'm all for people naming their kids whatever, it's just a little misleading. If you name your kid after a Greek God im gonna expect you to be an expert on it lol and if you name your kid something like Willow/Venus I expect a hippie that was homeschooled, not a girl that was in a sorority 😂
my name is olivia. boring as fuck lollll
My name (Nora) used to be rare when I was born like not in the top 200 and all of a sudden it’s in the top 35. I went from never seeing my name anywhere to now when I introduce myself to someone they know at least two babies that were named Nora in the past year. Now so many book and movie characters are named Nora and it’s soooooo weird. And I kind of hate it ngl. I literally can’t watch past lives bc the main characters name is Nora. And the spelling of my name used to make it unique (it was more commonly spelled with an h) but now my spelling is the standard. It’s crazy
The celebrity making a name more common thing is so real, I grew up with a not so common name (only new 2 or 3 people with it for yeaaars), but on the early 2000s a singer and a reality tv girl had the same name, now everytime I go out I hear someone calling my name, but it ends up being a parent calling their 6 year old.
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