"Brooklyn" the 43rd most popular baby name

[Nitro]

http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/3/31_03baby.html

"...in 2005, “Brooklyn” entered the charts at 62 — with a bullet. By 2006, it had jumped to 54th.
Now, at 43rd, it’s ahead of such once-beloved monikers as Katherine (46), Julia (55) and Abby (62)
Brooklyn even topped Rachel (66), Leah (85) and Rebecca (86) — so much for the Bible!"

What ever happened to people in New York naming their children "7"?

[Alja-Markir]

Why in the hells would you name your child Brooklyn?

I mean, it's like naming a kid Chinatown. It just paints all sorts of odd assumptions and questions onto the child that they will have to put up with for the rest of their life. Remember the character Fenchurch from the Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy?

Of course, if you really hate your child you name them Hoboken, or something...

~Alja~

[Sieg Reyu]

I know a couple of people named Brooklyn, and it sounds like it would be a weird name, until you actually hear it as a name.

[Allen!]

I, uh, I have a cousin named Brooklyn.

[Lavos]

assclown.

[SamsonWest]

the show Gargoyles is really gaining steam in this day and age. Soon Hudson then Goliath

hell if I have a daughter her name will be Elisa Maza or Demona.

[wilson_x1999]

...hell if I have a daughter her name will be Elisa Maza or Demona.

Demona would be an awesome name for a little girl!

and if Penn Jillete can call her daughter Moxie Crimefighter, then everyone else is allowed to call their children anything else XD

[Corax]

assclown.

damn, i cant top this post

[sweeks]

my niece is named Brooklyn

[Android]

If you can name your kid after a shitty New York Borough, I'm naming my kid Scarborough....or Etobicoke.

[emma]

Mississauga has a nice ring to it.

[AlexanderDitto]

I'm naming my kid Pensacola! Or Kissimmee/St. Cloud. Eew. I feel dirty now.

I'm not liking the Brooklyn vibe, really. People name their kids weird stuff. Ha! Fenchurch... oh Douglas Adams! I do love you so. Names are great and all, but I don't know what I'd do if I ever had a kid... I wouldn't be able to pick a name. I have a hard time picking names for characters in stories I write, let alone real people.

[Corax]

yeah, biblical names are getting old.
no, its not a good name.

[emma]

Biblical names will never get old!

People are always going to be calling their kids Sarah and Rebecca and Jacob and Aaron and stuff like that.

They just might not be naming their kids Ezekiel and Hephzibah and whatnot.

[jtaylor]

There are some really amusing names in the Torah/Old Testament. I'd name some, but I'd have to go open a Bible.

[AlexanderDitto]

Biblical names will never get old!

People are always going to be calling their kids Sarah and Rebecca and Jacob and Aaron and stuff like that.

They just might not be naming their kids Ezekiel and Hephzibah and whatnot.

The revival of the name Hephzibah was growing until the year 2015, when a freak Hurricane, "Hephzibah" destroyed most of the southeastern United States. Ironically, for the next decade, the instances of the names Katrina and Floyd both went up dramatically. When asked about this trend, statisticians wave their hands, laugh, and take a big swig of bourbon.

If the question is asked multiple times in rapid succession, it is possible to kill the statistician in this way.

I don't think there's anything wrong with "Biblical" names, though the names are hardly Biblical in the strictest sense: they are mostly just words that have a certain meaning in a foreign language, just like "Alexander" means "protector of men." I'm sure there were people named Sarah before the Bible went and wrote about a particular one. I mean, for most names. The massive number of kids named Jesus definitely have a Biblical name.

[NachoManLance]

Speaking of Douglas Adams names, Slartibartfast wins out of them all.

But it's not really important.

[TheRocket]

I'm goign to have twins and name them Pelican and Peckle. Then I'm naming their brother Duewag Dusseldwarf.

[TheRocket]

Also, I think Brooklyn is a beautiful name. I think naming your daughter cuntfactory would be a shitty name.

[Allen!]

I'm goign to have twins and name them Pelican and Peckle. Then I'm naming their brother Duewag Dusseldwarf.

I support this.

[Alja-Markir]

I'm gonna have twins, and I'm gonna name one Jim, after Jim Bexley Speed, and I'm gonna name the other Bexley, after Jim Bexley Speed.

~Lister~

[Sable]

I'm figuring on Hrothgar.

Because really...does anything beat "Hrothgar?"

[Alja-Markir]

Mjolnir.

That and Rhadamanthus.

~Alja~