new name you can use on your kid

[Joel S. Berson]

At 9/13/2011 08:24 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>The computerized sales slip from the supermarket tells me that my cashier
>was "Jherrica."
>
>Over 10,000 raw Google hits for "Jherrica," over 150,000 for "Jherica."
>
>To generalize from my experience, they should be mostly twentyish white
>ladies with hair the color of blood.

The feminine of "Jherrico"?  123,000 hits.  For "Jherico", 250,000
hits.  All unanalyzed, except that some are clearly given names.

http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/1/Jherico tells us "Jherico
\j-herico, jhe-ri-co\ as a boy's name is a variant of
<http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/1/Jericho>Jericho (Arabic),
and the meaning of Jherico is "city of the moon".  And "Jherico is
not a popular first name for men and an equally uncommon surname or
last name for all people."

Gender bias rears its ugly head.  This site has no entry for
"Jherica/Jherrica".

But you knew that.

Joel


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