People choose baby names to be fashionable

Thursday, July 4, 2013 - 07:20 in Mathematics & Economics

(Phys.org) —Parents these days name their babies Jacob or Isabella instead of John or Mary for similar reasons that people decades ago bought cars with tailfins instead of Edsels—because they are fashionable, according to a new University of California, Davis, study.

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