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Help[Opinions] Navy and Remi as girl's names in Utah
I'm asking this in Opinions because I believe more people read it than "Facts"--
I am updating an article on LDS names I wrote for a professor at Brigham Young University several years ago. One thing I do for that is look at names which are much more popular in Utah than Colorado. Colorado is the state bordering Utah with the lowest % of LDS members, so I figure it's a good contrast to separate out specifically LDS influences from genernal "Western US" trends.
Two girls' names which are way more popular in Utah than Colorado in 2021 were Remi and Navy. I am trying to figure out where the idea of giving these to girls originally came from. On this site Remi is just given as a male name, an alternate spelling of Remy. I don't know if as a female name it is just a transfer from the male name or has a separate origin. Through Google I find there was is a singer named Remi Wolf who was a contestant on "American Idol" in 2014. There is a YouTube woman chef named Remi Cruz who has 5 million followers. And there is a TikTok "influencer" named Remi Bader who seems to be an activist for the obese. Would any of these be especially popular with LDS parents for some reason?
Navy is way overpopular in Utah -- 84 born there in 2021 while only 7 were born in Colorado. It's really hard to track down the origins of a name on Google when it is also a common word like "navy". So far all I've found is that a country singer named Jason Aldean named his daughter Navy when she was born in February 2014.
Do you all know of any other possible pop culture reasons for these two names to have hit it big with LDS (Mormon) parents? Or is it just that they are prime examples of "different but not too different" sounding names (Remi being a shift from Emily, Emma, and Rylee and Navy a shift from Ava, Nevaeh, etc.) being picked up quicker in LDS culture, which seems to be particularly on the lookout for "new" baby names?
By the way, often Utah is a sort of early warning system for new fashions -- Brittany as well as Jayden and Kayden seems to have started out there, for example -- so there's a good chance a decade from now Remi and Navy will be in the top 50 all over the USA.
I am updating an article on LDS names I wrote for a professor at Brigham Young University several years ago. One thing I do for that is look at names which are much more popular in Utah than Colorado. Colorado is the state bordering Utah with the lowest % of LDS members, so I figure it's a good contrast to separate out specifically LDS influences from genernal "Western US" trends.
Two girls' names which are way more popular in Utah than Colorado in 2021 were Remi and Navy. I am trying to figure out where the idea of giving these to girls originally came from. On this site Remi is just given as a male name, an alternate spelling of Remy. I don't know if as a female name it is just a transfer from the male name or has a separate origin. Through Google I find there was is a singer named Remi Wolf who was a contestant on "American Idol" in 2014. There is a YouTube woman chef named Remi Cruz who has 5 million followers. And there is a TikTok "influencer" named Remi Bader who seems to be an activist for the obese. Would any of these be especially popular with LDS parents for some reason?
Navy is way overpopular in Utah -- 84 born there in 2021 while only 7 were born in Colorado. It's really hard to track down the origins of a name on Google when it is also a common word like "navy". So far all I've found is that a country singer named Jason Aldean named his daughter Navy when she was born in February 2014.
Do you all know of any other possible pop culture reasons for these two names to have hit it big with LDS (Mormon) parents? Or is it just that they are prime examples of "different but not too different" sounding names (Remi being a shift from Emily, Emma, and Rylee and Navy a shift from Ava, Nevaeh, etc.) being picked up quicker in LDS culture, which seems to be particularly on the lookout for "new" baby names?
By the way, often Utah is a sort of early warning system for new fashions -- Brittany as well as Jayden and Kayden seems to have started out there, for example -- so there's a good chance a decade from now Remi and Navy will be in the top 50 all over the USA.
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