Why is every other kid these days named Mason, Grayson or Carson? We mined America’s biggest baby-name database to find the surprising answer.
Take “Ashley,” for instance. Ashly, Ashley and Ashleigh each mark distinct eras — not just for the Ashleys of the world, but also for the various spellings themselves.
And so, with barely two weeks left before my kid’s due date, we find ourselves building bassinets and very wide data sets. Nowadays, she said, people not only have access to unlimited cable channels and the internet, but those innovations have helped usher in a “username creation” mentality — meaning that if someone else has the same name, it’s viewed as taken. So parents tend to tweak their baby’s name just a bit — keeping the “-son,” for example, while swapping the “Ja-” for “Car-.”
The couple assembled a 20-name list that they kept close to the chest to avoid unsolicited opinions. By the time she went into labor, they had whittled the list down to fewer than eight. But after 40-plus hours of labor and recovery, they looked down at their beautiful baby boy and realized that not one of those options felt right.With Melcon’s hospital discharge fast approaching, they had three hours to make a decision.
It turns out that Cyril and other “-il” names peaked in the early 1900s; John’s ancestor was born in 1887. And “-us” names in boys crested in the 2010s. Little Cyrus was born in 2015.
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