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Fewer parents choosing 'Karen' as name for newborn daughters
Fewer parents want to name their baby girl Karen.
The name has tanked in popularity over the past year, according to figures released by the Social Security Administration.
Throughout 2020 the name Karen fell a whopping 171 spots on the popularity list, from a low of 660 to number 831, Huffington Post reported Tuesday.
The name's popularity had already been ebbing, falling to its lowest ranking since 1929 by the end of last year, Huffington Post reported in September 2020. While it fell 23 spots to 660 on the list of popular baby names for 2019, it has plummeted even more since then.
The parents of just 325 baby girls named their daughter Karen last year, down from 439 in 2019, Huffington Post said, citing the SSA.
In 1965, at the name's peak popularity, nearly 33,000 newborns were named Karen, HuffPo noted.
While there's no scientific link between the name Karen and the pejorative connotations with the entitled white woman who wants "to speak to the manager," there's no denying that The Name That Launched a Thousand Memes is morphing into something less than desirable.
How could it not, with connotations such as the "Central Park Karen" who falsely called police to say a Black bird-watcher who had asked her to comply with the rules and leash her dog had actually threatened to harm her? Or the so-called SoHo Karen, who wrongfully accused a Black boy of stealing her cellphone? Or a woman actually named Karen, who refused to mask up in an Ohio grocery store?
"Baby names are always a mirror of the times," noted the website Baby Center last October, noting that 2020′s changes reflected "a year of loss and political divisiveness," with "Kobe" leaping 175% after the helicopter-crash death of basketball great Kobe Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter Gianna, whose name popularity soared even further, by 216%.


https://www.startribune.com/fewer-parent...600064175/
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Maybe more mind boggling than the actions of the karens....that somebody gets paid,  its their job,  to keep track of what people name their kids every year.  What a contribution to society.
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Hard to see too many toddlers running around named Karen these days, racists notwithstanding. I would think Donald would be hugely unpopular right now too, for more than one reason.

You try to put names from the 50s and 60s with bouncing babies, it just doesn't quite work: "Come here little Gene, Blanche, Edith, Lloyd, etc."
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Quote: @MaroonBells said:
Hard to see too many toddlers running around named Karen these days, racists notwithstanding. I would think Donald would be hugely unpopular right now too, for more than one reason.

You try to put names from the 50s and 60s with bouncing babies, it just doesn't quite work: "Come here little Gene, Blanche, Edith, Lloyd, etc."
I am actually hearing a lot of the old "bible" type names making a comeback.  i will say if i hear of sombody saying they named their kid leviticus I will likely bust a nut laughing at them,  but even so the names of our parents and grandparents are making a return... at least in my small circle.
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Quote: @JimmyinSD said:
Maybe more mind boggling than the actions of the karens....that somebody gets paid,  its their job,  to keep track of what people name their kids every year.  What a contribution to society.
LMAO...yeah, THIS
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