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Article: Baby Names Prone to Boom-and-Bust Cycles; Parents today favor choices that have recently risen in popularity, study finds.
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- Consumer Health News (English)
- Article date:
- October 13, 2009
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TUESDAY, Oct. 13 (HealthDay News) -- New parents like baby names that are not merely popular but on the rise, compared to names that are falling out of favor, a new study suggests.
The findings by researchers at New York University and Indiana University provide evidence that parental naming choices are influenced by trends in ways that weren't previously understood, the study authors said.
"Our results give support to the idea that individual naming choices are in a large part determined by the social environment that expecting parents experience," the authors wrote. "Like the stock market, cycles of boom and bust appear to arise out of the ...