Generation differences in baby names (Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Texas)
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Maybe Hades wouldn't be the best name, but I see nothing wrong with Apollo, Phoebe, Athena or many other names.
The Greeks are still naming their kids such things...so it's not all that odd. I know two boys named Eros...and I think there us a model or singer or something with the name.
Just not even close to being all that odd...never mind on par with child abuse.
Well, there probably wasn't a single person named 'Anakin' until recently...
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This year, a surprising baby name appeared for the first time on the Social Security Administration’s annual list of the top 1,000 baby names in the United States. “Anakin” made its chart debut at #957, the name having been bestowed on exactly 218 baby boys in 2014. Granted, Anakin hovers near the bottom of the boys’ list, with nowhere near the popularity of Top-10 names like Jacob, Liam and Noah. But its appearance is noteworthy, because Anakin didn’t exist as a name until George Lucas invented it for Star Wars. Its one and only cultural association is the character Anakin Skywalker, the father of Luke Skywalker and a once promising Jedi knight who became the evil Darth Vader. How did the name of one of pop culture’s most iconic villains (#3 on the AFI list) become an option for hundreds of newborns? The answer says less about parents turning to the Dark Side, and more about how ubiquitous Star Wars has become in American culture.
None before Star Wars, certainly. The name has only recently made the top 1000, but it started appearing quite a while ago. Anakin was mentioned as Darth Vader's real first name in Return of the Jedi (1983). It first appears in the Social Security "Beyond the Top 1000 Names" data in 1995, when there were 5 boys named Anakin. There were 114 Anakins born in 1999, when Phantom Menace came out, and it has gone up from there.
Why the doubt? My kids went to school Noxema, Visquine and Sage, Parsley, Destiny, Hope, Freedom and Jinx. People have all sorts of reasons for naming kids what they do and a favorite dessert doesn't seem odd at all.
The sickest, cruelest, whatever(?) that I know of is my husband (he's in his 60s) went to school with the Hogg children. The girls were named Ima and Ura. No lie. That IMO is child abuse. The other names, are just odd (to me) but not near as screwed up as those poor girls names.
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