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The Boom Bus Cycles With Baby Names

Eeo looks at what drives the popularity of baby names. As soon as a name gets about one in 500 or 100 babies, people really don't want to use it any more. And why do you think we steer away from names once they reach a certain frequency in the population? It's probably just what it is to be a name. We want to be able to identify ourselves.

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