What’s in a name?

Monica Goodling’s appearance before the House Judiciary Committee last week inspired the blog Political Arithmetic to dig out the figures showing a dramatic drop in the popularity of the name Monica in the late nineties when, as you might recall, another Monica was in the DC spotlight. I wonder if there was a corresponding drop in parents naming their children “Richard” after Watergate, and if the phenomenon extends beyond politics. For example, will recent events cause a drop in the number of girls named Lindsey, Brittney, or Paris?

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7:28 pm on May 29, 2007

What’s in a name?

A friend once told me he liked to describe himself as a “market anarchist” because the bad guys would never try to co-opt “the A word.” Of course, that was before the emergence of anti-globalization “anarchists” who are angry that the government is not doing more for the poor….

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11:24 pm on November 25, 2003