Thinking of popular culture as a way to influence baby names and I'm sure non of use have to think to far into our friends and other circles to come up with someone who picked a baby name that was from a popular cultural reference. This can be true, even if a person isn't a fan of the celebrity or of the television show in question.
As someone who loves data, I enjoy watching the baby name ranking from the Social Security office. These numbers go up once a year and are based on the previous year's birth certificate data. What's even more exciting is that you can track a name for many, many years backwards, including sorting it by gender. When you add the thought of the span of a television show, book or other popularity, it can be a really neat experiment.
So I was talking about two show in particular this weekend with people and I wanted to know if the person's ascertainment was correct, that The Big Bang Theory and Grey's Anatomy had all greatly influenced baby names since going on the air. The answers might surprise you!
What shows or characters do you think have altered baby naming history?
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Popular Culture Influences Baby Names originally appeared on About.com Pregnancy & Childbirth on Sunday, September 22nd, 2013 at 22:18:04.
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