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This is the standard heuristic parents use so you are not alone. Interestingly it seems to cause names to go in cycles. Every generation has their own popular n
by tappio 6y ago
This is the standard heuristic parents use so you are not alone. Interestingly it seems to cause names to go in cycles. Every generation has their own popular names. You end up picking a name that is not common in your parents or in your own generation, because there is always a dickhead with the common ones. If I remember right first names go in around 60-year cycles.
- lb1lf 6y agoThe Norwegian bureau of statistics used to have a brilliant bank of historical name trends, where you could input any name and see how popular it had been throughout the years. One of my favourites were Vidkun, which fell off a cliff in the mid-forties. (Vidkun being the first name of our head collaborationist honcho during the Nazi occupation - his last name may be known to you. Quisling. Yup, he coined the phrase 'Quisling' for a traitor and even had a verb - to quisle, for committing treason - enter the English language.)
- nextaccountic 6y agoNames that went unpopular also include Katrina, Isis and.. Adolf https://www.huffpostbrasil.com/entry/unpopular-baby-names_n_5a77ded7e4b01ce33eb452c6 https://www.huffpostbrasil.com/entry/unpopular-baby-names_n_... It's a shame that Isis (the Egyptian goddess) is now associated to the Islamic State. It's a beautiful name.
- MaxBarraclough 6y agoThe Archer TV show had a similar problem. (Minor spoilers ahead.) The show pre-dates Islamic State, and the heroes' spy organisation was named ISIS. I was a little disappointed by the way they escaped it, they just did away with the spy organisation as they mixed up the later seasons of the show. It would have been a bold move, but it could have been played for laughs.
- garmaine 6y agoTbh I’ve never heard those words before.
- CarbyAu 6y agoWell I guess no one is naming their kid "Karen" for a while...