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How the hell does name popularity work? I hear people say "When I picked that name it wasn't popular, but suddenly everybody started naming their kid that" all the time. I myself have picked at least 3 names for things I thought weren't popular, only to soon realize they were.

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Do we have weird psychic cultural powers? Are there really predictable trends about which names are gonna get popular again (e.g., "last popular peak was at least 50 years ago, and was used in a x level popular fictional work in the last 5 years")? How do we all keep doing this?

10:11 PM · Oct 3, 2020

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Because people don't *want* to name their kid (or fictional character or pseudonym or whatever) the next fad name and end up being this generation's Karen or Lisa, so they actively try not to, but it happens anyway! How do we all accidentally keep making the next fad?

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i think we all are picking up a ton more information than we can preceive or understand

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