Semafor - The number of babies in the U.S. with androgynous names is at a record high. The sociologist Philip Cohen notes that more than one in 20 children born in 2021 had names that were split at least 20-80 between the sexes. That’s historically unusual. In 1971, barely 1.5% of children had ambiguous names: Names given to girls were almost exclusively given to girls, and vice versa. Now relatively common names like Charlie, Blake, Dakota, and Rory are given in almost equal numbers to boys and girls. The change is driven more by traditional boys’ names being used by girls than the other way around, although both things are happening.
No comments:
Post a Comment