I read a very similar article in the Wall Street Journal last week. It nearly made me want to throw up. One of the top 100 girls' names for 2006 was Nevaeh (heaven spelled backwards... *gag*
If you ask me, there seems to be a trend where people (as a population in general) are putting unnecessary significance on choices that should be relatively simple and straight forward. Granted, naming your children is a bit more complex... but so much that it validates spending hundreds of dollars for a list of names? I don't think so.
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