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in reply to a message by Rune_Spirit
If you check out the following website you will see that there were girls named Magenta born in the state of Oregon in both 1988 and 1996. Though it's rare, I have seen other examples.
http://www.dhs.state.or.us/publichealth/chs/babyname/babyname.cfm
Of course almost any name that's been featured in a popular film will have at least one real child with it somewhere, though they may have been born after the film was released and have been inspired by it. :)
http://www.dhs.state.or.us/publichealth/chs/babyname/babyname.cfm
Of course almost any name that's been featured in a popular film will have at least one real child with it somewhere, though they may have been born after the film was released and have been inspired by it. :)
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This is how future popular names are predicted: looking at the names in very popular movied and the names of children of actors and actresses.
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Maybe so ... but the actors must get them from somewhere. Perhaps they are just more attuned than the rest of us to how the broader public might be 'thinking', though the 'thoughts' would still be unconscious. They depend for their living on being on the public's wavelength, after all. Interesting!
Interesting also to consider the usual paradigm: that leaders in society start using a name, let's say Przml, and people who admire them and aspire to their position learn the name Przml from them ... and so on down the social ladder until the social leaders notice too many little Przmls for comfort and drop it. Thus it sinks to become a truly well-used, popular name while those who started the process are now naming their children Wgrrq.
Does the same, or similar, happen with actor-family names? Or do people identify Actor A, whether from personality or usual roles, as posh and Actor B as underclass ... so Proudly Underclass parents might follow B's lead and Aspiring Upperclass parents might copy A? And is there any way, other than the notoriously inaccurate personal testimony, of finding out?
Interesting also to consider the usual paradigm: that leaders in society start using a name, let's say Przml, and people who admire them and aspire to their position learn the name Przml from them ... and so on down the social ladder until the social leaders notice too many little Przmls for comfort and drop it. Thus it sinks to become a truly well-used, popular name while those who started the process are now naming their children Wgrrq.
Does the same, or similar, happen with actor-family names? Or do people identify Actor A, whether from personality or usual roles, as posh and Actor B as underclass ... so Proudly Underclass parents might follow B's lead and Aspiring Upperclass parents might copy A? And is there any way, other than the notoriously inaccurate personal testimony, of finding out?
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