Brand naming kids

[Mark A. Mandel]

        [David Bergdahl:]
A friend of mine's kid--20 yrs old-- has the middle name of Allegra--way
before the medicinal use...

        [Geoffrey Nathan:]
The name Allegra occurs in Longfellow's poem 'The Children's
Hour', where he talks about his (real) daughter with that
name:

Grave Alice, laughing Allegra
And Edith with golden hair.

        [Laurence Horn:]
Allegra was also the name of Lord Byron's daughter (1817-1822), who
had a short but eventful life, and was named way WAY before the
medicine.

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No surprise in any of these, especially the Longfellow, when you take
into account that "allegra" is Italian for 'cheerful', adj.f.

-- Mark A. Mandel
   Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania