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Another possibility is that there is greater diversity in the US now than a hundred years ago, people are more aware of it, and are okay with it, so there's a m
by kijin 13y ago
Another possibility is that there is greater diversity in the US now than a hundred years ago, people are more aware of it, and are okay with it, so there's a much larger pool of names to choose from.
A hundred years ago, it would have been unthinkable for a white, English-speaking family to give their children a name that sounded even remotely non-Anglo-Saxon. Nowadays, nobody looks at you funny if you're named Mila or Declan.
- adventured 13y agoSeems pretty likely. John (M) for example was perhaps at 9% circa 1870. That's pretty dramatic, and definitely speaks to the lower cultural diversity.