Brand naming kids

[Anne Gilbert]

David and all:

It's quite possible that kids called "Saran" may "really" be Sarah Ann, but
the parents have a choice. . . "Saran" may sound more "feminine" or "new" to
some parents.  But if you name a child Lexus, as the Detroit Free Press says
seems to be h appening, then I think you are really "calling  up" the brand
name of the car..
Anne G

> : A propos of our recent discussion there's an article in today's
> : Detroit Free Press:
>
> : http://www.detnews.com/2004/editorial/0403/28/a17-105077.htm
>
> : I don't know how long it will be available, but it deals with some of
> : the issues we've been ruminating on.
>
> A similar article ran in the Orlando _Sentinel_ a month or so ago--it's an
> interesting trend, but I have to wonder about some of the assumptions. For
> example, is Saran *actually* derived from Saran Wrap (even unconsciously),
> or is it simply derived from Sarah Ann? After all, there's enough brand
> names out there that you could find a brand name for a huge number of
> randomly chosen names, I'd suspect--I'm sure that somewhere out there
> there's a company called David Industries or somesuch.
>
> <David conducts a quick Google search>
>
> Harry & David, for example. (Not to mention Davidia Online--which I'm not
> sure is actually a brand name--and Davidon Homes.)
>
> And all those Tiffanys being born right now are, I fear, not being named
as
> much after the jeweler as the annoying 80s singer.
>
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