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Celebrity influence on naming babies

Mark Frauenfelder at 8:43 am Tue, Feb 5, 2013

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If you see a Farrah on a dating site listing her age as 29, she’s lying by six or seven years. (Via Sociological Images)

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katkins

Reruns!
http://twitter.com/bobbylox Robert Lockhart

No one mentions that these graphs are from wolframalpha.com
Russell Letson

Had a colleague named Farah–she was about thirty nearly thirty years ago. Maybe it’s only the double-ell Farrahs who are victims of celeb-worshipping parents, and the single-ell women look back to the Persian tradition.
entireleaves

Yeah she could just be Persian or Arabic.
James Mallek

throw some quotes around that, otherwise it looks like Mark wrote the witty caption
GawainLavers

How does “Madison” fit in?
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  “Say! Any of you guys know how to Madison?”
http://twitter.com/Spodzilla Spodzilla

This is a fun way to kill some time – http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager