This Aggressive Baby Name Trend Is 'Alarming' Experts

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75. Why am I supposed to get worked up over this?

From the article:

“Most of these names peaked in use relatively recently — Wesson in 2021 when it was used 306 times, Caliber in 2018 with 24 uses, Mace in 2022 with 64 uses, Dagger in 2022 with 13 uses,” Kihm noted. “It’s hard to say if these names have truly peaked in use or if some will go on to greater use, but I don’t think we’re past this trend yet!”

So Wesson was used 306 times, caliber 24 times, mace 64 times, and dagger 13 times. Who cares?

For shits and giggles I went to the SSA baby name popularity webpage to check each of the names listed - only 3 broke the top 1000 baby names in 2023 - Wesson, Cannon, and Colt.

In 2023, Wesson ranked 949 with 237 babies named Wesson or .013% of births.

In 2023, Cannon ranked 636 with 430 babies named Cannon or .023% of births.

In 2023, Colt ranked 264 with 1298 babies named Colt or .071% of babies. Of course, the name Colt could easily be in reference to the horse.

So in total, the names mentioned in the article represent about .11% of babies names in 2023. This doesn’t seem like much of a trend to me.

Btw, for anyone who wants to check, here’s the SSA website: https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/index.html