This is from the Freakonomics Blog. I haven’t read the book yet (it is in the ever-growing stack on my desk at home), but I do remember reading a section about baby names while perusing a bookstore not too long ago.
Recently, there has been some news about the dip in popularity of the name “Katrina”, in the aftermath of the disaster along the gulf coast.
Freakonomics Blog has more on the story:
Because we had a chapter in our book about the socioeconomic impact of baby names, we’ve blogged many times about baby names in the past, including just the other day.
One question that rarely arises, however, is this: How possible is it to predict which names will become more popular in time, and which ones will fall? We did make a run at predicting some of the boy and girl names that might become popular in ten years’ time, based on the observation that the masses tend to choose names that first become popular among high-education, high-income parents. But trends, including naming trends, tend to march to a drummer that isn’t always audible. [...]
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