[Ads-l] 26 Names That Didn't Exist Before 2000

[Jonathan Lighter]

That's just how some people spell "never."

JL

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 10:04 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

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> Subject:      Re: 26 Names That Didn't Exist Before 2000
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> > On Nov 11, 2015, at 9:50 AM, Amy West <medievalist at W-STS.COM> wrote:
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> > My limited thoughts on this:
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> > 1) BS
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> > 2) Wow, Netscape is still around?
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> Hah!  Yeah, I wondered about that too.
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> > and
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> > 3) I have never understood why people think that spelling "Heaven" =
> backwards as a name ("Nevaeh") would be a good thing: Aren't things =
> spelled backwards bad things? Wouldn't that be a really good name for a =
> Satanist kid?
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> I think the way to go is to spell "Hell" backwards, which must be a good =
> thing.  "Lleh" has a nice ring to it too--sort of like the Welsh version =
> of "meh".
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> LH
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> > ---Amy "Wasting Your Bandwith Yet Again" West
> > (Note the true evilness of my top-posting this: my audacity knows no =
> bounds . . . )
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> > On 11/11/15 12:00 AM, ADS-L automatic digest system wrote:
> >> Date:    Tue, 10 Nov 2015 05:39:15 -0800
> >> From:    "James A. Landau"<JJJRLandau at NETSCAPE.COM>
> >> Subject: 26 Names That Didn't Exist Before 2000
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> >> fromhttp://isp.netscape.com/whatsnew/default.jsp?story=3D20151109-1327
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> >> I don't know how accurate this list is.  For example, I find it =
> difficult to believe Khloe Kardashian is less than 15 years old, "Norah" =
> is a variant spelling of "Nora", and "Vivienne" is a variant spelling of =
> "Vivian" which is one of the names of the woman who seduced Merlin in =
> the Arthur legends.
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> >> <begin quote>
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> >> 26 Names That Didn't Exist Before 2000
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> >> Before the year 2000--you know, way back in the last century--the =
> name "Bentley" was pretty much reserved for a British luxury automobile. =
> And it was rarely, if ever, used as a name for a baby boy. Fast forward =
> to today. Bentley is now the 81st most popular name for a boy, according =
> to data from the Social Security Administration.
> >>  Jennifer has been replaced by Hazel. And Michael has been dumped by =
> Elijah.
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> >> What are other names are new to the 21st century? Mooseroots.com dove =
> into the SSA data on names to figure out which ones are popular now that =
> basically didn't exist before 2000. That is, fewer than 100 babies a =
> year were given any one of these names.
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> >> Here are the 26 popular baby names that basically didn't exist before =
> 2000:
> >>  1. Bentley
> >>  2. Nevaeh
> >>  3. Mila
> >>  4. Khloe
> >>  5. Paisley
> >>  6. Brantley
> >>  7. Ryker
> >>  8. Maddox
> >>  9. Gael
> >>  10. Kingston
> >>  11. Zayden
> >>  12. King
> >>  13. Lyla
> >>  14. Londyn
> >>  15. Isla
> >>  16. Adalyn
> >>  17. Norah
> >>  18. Jax
> >>  19. Arabella
> >>  20. Cash
> >>  21. Jaylah
> >>  22. Beckett
> >>  23. Brynlee
> >>  24. Karter
> >>  25. Arya
> >>  26. Vivienne
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> >> <end quote>
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> >> Also Netscape provides
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> >> =
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=3Dhttp-3A__isp.netscape.com_wha=
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