March 7th, 2008
Freakonomics Baby Name Predictions
Freakonomics, by Steven Levitt and Steven Dunbar, is one of the most interesting books we’ve read in the past year. Part of the book is about names and the impact they have on a person’s life. For example, does having an ethnic sounding name hurt one’s chances for a job? (They were surprised to find it did not). It also analyzes how names become popular. They say names climb through the echelons of society. Dunbar and Levitt included a list of names they predict will be very popular in 2015:
