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Help[Opinions] Re: Khaleesi and Katniss
in reply to a message by Magz
Arya is already being used in the US ... but I think it might be at least partly due to people who were born in India using it here? I've run across at least two young boys and one girl named Arya who I'm pretty sure are the children of people from India.
Anyway, it has a trendy sound, and people might use it without even knowing about the character. Popular authors pick names that are coming into fashion, more than they create fashions, IMO. Aria is popular too, and started charting in the late 90s. Bella was already coming into fashion before the book was published. Even Cullen was! If anything, I think Twilight might have reduced the usage of Cullen... and GoT might reduce the use of Arya as much as it increases it, too.
Samantha was used long before Bewitched... just not very much. Laura Wattenberg was exaggerating, I hope. She is a clown. Styles herself an "expert" on names, when most (all?) of what she knows is stuff you can find on the internet, and the rest is just creative statistics done on it. 150 Khaleesis does not make a headline trend of people naming their babies after GoT characters. There were 150 Chevelles and 453 Novas named in 2012 as well - does that make a trend of naming kids after 1970s Chevrolet car models? lol.
I think Katniss and Khaleesi probably won't see any more use than Arwen or Galadriel have. eta- oh yeah Eowyn, that too.
- mirfak
Anyway, it has a trendy sound, and people might use it without even knowing about the character. Popular authors pick names that are coming into fashion, more than they create fashions, IMO. Aria is popular too, and started charting in the late 90s. Bella was already coming into fashion before the book was published. Even Cullen was! If anything, I think Twilight might have reduced the usage of Cullen... and GoT might reduce the use of Arya as much as it increases it, too.
Samantha was used long before Bewitched... just not very much. Laura Wattenberg was exaggerating, I hope. She is a clown. Styles herself an "expert" on names, when most (all?) of what she knows is stuff you can find on the internet, and the rest is just creative statistics done on it. 150 Khaleesis does not make a headline trend of people naming their babies after GoT characters. There were 150 Chevelles and 453 Novas named in 2012 as well - does that make a trend of naming kids after 1970s Chevrolet car models? lol.
I think Katniss and Khaleesi probably won't see any more use than Arwen or Galadriel have. eta- oh yeah Eowyn, that too.
- mirfak
This message was edited 4/11/2014, 11:17 AM
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