I’ve yet to have a child, so I don’t fully understand the trials and tribulations that parents go through to choose a name for their newborn baby, but it never occurred to me that Instagram could be a place for inspiration. As a recent survey of 340,000 parents revealed, some people are starting to use Instagram filter names as baby names, with the highest gainer since last year being baby boys given the name “Lux”, jumping 75%.
Other popular boys names include familiar names like Ludwig, Amaro, Reyes, Hudson and Kelvin (though that last one is legitimately a pretty common name), whereas little ladies have seen an increase in the names Juno, Valencia and Willow. The statistics were part of BabyCenter.com‘s unofficial list of popular names from 2015 – other fun fact, despite the security debacle at Ashley Madison earlier this year, “Madison” is still a top 10 girls name this year.
If nothing else, this is just yet another indication of how much the social media revolution has started to infiltrate every facet of our lives. It kind of makes you wonder what parents will think of next to use as name inspiration – if anyone names their child “Yolo”, I’m out.
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Source: TIME via TechCrunch
