The number of babies born each year who get a name that is between 20% and 80% single-sex has now surpassed 6%.
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US name androgyny at record high
Androgyny is still climbing rapidly and I thought you needed to know that right away.
Names further down the drain in 2021: Alexa, Karen, and Mary
Amazon continued its assault on real people named Alexa in 2021, degraded the cultural value of the name through association with its robot servant product. The trend in girls given the name Alexa is very dramatic: I've been writing about the Alexa trend since 2018. You can see the previous posts here. I would also…
Continue reading ➞ Names further down the drain in 2021: Alexa, Karen, and Mary
Alexa devaluation, cutting room floor edition
Not only named after a robot, but a subservient female one.
During the pandemic year of 2020, thousands of US parents named their babies Kobe and Gianna
And a few other highlights. Data from the Social Security Administration show that the names Kobe and Gianna had the greatest increase in popularity of any names in the country in 2020; as Kobe boys increased from 499 to 1500 and Gianna girls from 3408 to 7826. Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna died in…
Alexa, Hillary, Melania/Ivanka, Donald, Mary, and the top 20 names from last year
All the people who claim to love the Donald don't really want their boys to be him, they want to be able to hide their deplorable allegiance from polite society when the shit goes south.
Less than half of women with PhDs in survey keep ‘maiden’ names
Marital Name Change Survey first results and data release.
Take the Marital Name Change Survey
If 1,000 of you share this with 1,000 other people, I will have very large convenience sample. Worth a try.
Why aren’t female Charlies killing the name Charles?
As girl Charlies have gained ground, Charlie is rising in the rankings for boys. Parents are now naming their boys Charlie at twice the rate they did in 1968.
Taylor, Kim and the declining sex binary in names
Over the long run, the U.S. is becoming a less sex-binary society, but that evolution is far from direct.
Family Inequality 