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Brand Babies: In recent years, it's been trendy to name babies after brand name products. This trend was the subject of an interesting article in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
"Picking unusual names is more popular than ever, because people are willing to choose from all sorts of sources, including brand names," says Cleveland Evans, a psychology professor at Bellevue University in Nebraska who discovered the surprising number of brand-name babies in a massive database of names registered with the Social Security Administration in 2000.
It's not unheard of these days for a kid to be named Lexus, Corvette, Acura, Camry, Celica, Infiniti, Armani, Dior or Halston. If a child's parents like a little tipple, they might name their kid after an alcohol brand like Johnnie Walker, Guinness, Courvoisier or Hennessy.

Undoubtedly, the first child's name to bear a remarkable resemblance to a brand was Diot Coke.
Posted by abnu on Wednesday, March 10, 2004 @ 9:10 AM [ + ]

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