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Perhaps you read the piece in The Cut earlier this year about two influencers who were reportedly feuding because they both named their babies "Baby." They can now take their "niche drama" national, because according to the baby-naming website Nameberry, Baby could be a trending name for newborns in 2022. It's one of a handful of "playful" names the site's editors believe parents could be drawn to, because of the darkness of the past couple years. Other names in this category include Moxie, Trixie and Dovie. |
I really wanted to know why someone would name their baby Baby, beyond the "Dirty Dancing" reference cited by one of the influencers in the feud (though that character's real name is Frances). So I called up Pamela Redmond, the co-creator of Nameberry, to ask her how they pick their slate of trending names. "We look at the data of views of our name pages, and look for what names are making the biggest leaps upwards as to where they were last year," Ms. Redmond told me. "We also check those against the names that made the biggest leaps up the year before." |
Ms. Redmond said we won't know until the Social Security Administration puts out its baby name data for 2022 whether or not the search trend on Nameberry took hold for real. I asked her if "Baby" was maybe just a place-holder that parents put on their kid's birth certificate when they were being hustled out of the hospital, only to change it later. Ms. Redmond said that used to happen more decades ago, but probably doesn't happen as much now; officials may have been the ones filling in "Baby" when a parent had left the name blank. |
For what it's worth, I looked up the Social Security Administration data on the name Baby, and for girls it peaked in 1995, when 308 female babies were named Baby. For boys, 1994 was the year of Baby babies, with 373. According to Nameberry, the name "Cozy", which peaked in 1965, is also making a comeback. Please keep me posted if any of you name your children Cozy Baby. |
Finally, as a follow-up to Claire Cain Miller's excellent article about how day cares are struggling to find and keep workers in a pandemic world, I'm working on a story about parents who cannot get adequate care for their children. Is the day care wait list in your area 200 families long? Did the only after care option in your school district close down? I want to hear from you: email me here. |
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My 2-year-old started refusing to change out of P.J.s in the morning, and her tantrums were wearing us all out. So now I pick an outfit, visit her at the breakfast table and talk up the day's clothes like a hype man. "It's your BIRD SHIRT! With your GREEN PANTS! How lucky are you?" By the time she's done eating, she's levitating with excitement and can't wait to get dressed. — Mia Lipman Irwin, Seattle |
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