{"id":46960,"date":"2012-05-06T11:38:10","date_gmt":"2012-05-06T16:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=46960"},"modified":"2012-05-11T14:17:31","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T19:17:31","slug":"twilight-timing-and-baby-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/05\/06\/twilight-timing-and-baby-names\/","title":{"rendered":"Twilight, Timing, and Baby Names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Cross-posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/montclairsoci.blogspot.com\/2012\/05\/twilight-timing.html\" target=\"_blank\">Montclair SocioBlog<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Jacob and Isabella were the most popular baby names last year.\u00a0 Some observers, even some sociologists, see this as the influence of the\u00a0<em>Twilight <\/em>series. \u00a0(See\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/babynames.allparenting.com\/babynames\/Popular\/Baby_name_trends_2012\/\">here<\/a>\u00a0for example.)<\/p>\n<p>But Jacob, Isabella, and even Bella were on the rise well before Stephanie Meyer sent her similarly-named characters out to capture the hearts, minds, and naming preferences of romantic adolescents:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/05\/17.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-46961\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/05\/17.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/05\/17.png 622w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/05\/17-500x379.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 435px) 100vw, 435px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The forecasters predict a bumper crop soon in Rue, Cato, and perhaps other names that are from the\u00a0<em>Hunger <\/em>series.\u00a0 Still, since the YA (Young Adult) audience for these books and movies are more Y than A, I\u2019m hoping for lag time of at least a few years before they start naming babies.\u00a0 As I <a href=\"http:\/\/montclairsoci.blogspot.com\/2011\/06\/fashion-report-names-edition.html\">blogger earlier<\/a>,\u00a0<em>Splash<\/em>, the film with Darryl Hannah as Madison the mermaid, came out in 1984, but it was not until nine years later that Madison surfaced in the top 100 names. And if there\u2019s a Hogwarts effect, we\u2019re still waiting to see it.\u00a0 The trend in Harry and Harold is downward on both sides of the Atlantic, and Hermione has yet to break into the top 1000.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t look for any Katnisses to be showing up in your classes for quite a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cross-posted at Montclair SocioBlog. Jacob and Isabella were the most popular baby names last year.\u00a0 Some observers, even some sociologists, see this as the influence of the\u00a0Twilight series. \u00a0(See\u00a0here\u00a0for example.) But Jacob, Isabella, and even Bella were on the rise well before Stephanie Meyer sent her similarly-named characters out to capture the hearts, minds, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":258,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8070,15,23384,343],"class_list":["post-46960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-artliterature","tag-culture","tag-social-construction-discourselanguage","tag-tvmovies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/258"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46960"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46964,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46960\/revisions\/46964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}