{"id":7873,"date":"2021-04-15T16:27:34","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T16:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7873"},"modified":"2021-04-15T16:27:34","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T16:27:34","slug":"luna-aria-albie-carol-and-nigel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2021\/04\/15\/luna-aria-albie-carol-and-nigel\/","title":{"rendered":"Luna, Aria, Albie, Carol and Nigel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Way back in what now almost seems another life, I used to travel round Somerset and Wiltshire watching PGCE students teach. \u00a0I got into the habit of looking at class lists to note the fore-names of those being taught, and developed what I termed the\u00a0<em>Tristram, Tamara, Tamsin<\/em>\u00a0index. \u00a0This was a rough and ready way of coming to a view of how middle class the school's catchment was. \u00a0It worked after a fashion and was a bit of a diversion.<\/p>\n<p>I was reminded of this the other week reading the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/triptych-helvetica-and-badger-welcome-to-the-world-of-crazy-baby-names-qkkbc76h7?shareToken=f806573766a08b332aba3b8528de4c66\">Sunday Times<\/a> which reported trends in UK fore-names. \u00a0The article opened with this:<\/p>\n<p><em>Hugo and Olivia von Halle announced the birth of their third child last week, choosing the pages of <a class=\"linkweb__RespLink-yfb9n-0 brTsSA\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/births-marriages-and-deaths-march-2-2021-qxthqlv8s\">The Times<\/a> to do so. Rarely has a simple 22-word classified notice caused such a rumpus. \u201cA daughter, Triptych Alabama Bliss, sister to Hieronymus and Dionysus,\u201d it said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It clearly shows that my index is both woefully out of time, and impossible to replicate now. \u00a0As the article explained, names are much more diverse. \u00a0In 1999, there were 3,824 different girls\u2019 names registered. \u00a0In 2019, there were 5,591. \u00a0There were 1,213 girls called Luna born in 2019, 1,156 called Aria, 777 called Aurora but only 3 called Carol. \u00a0There were 1,678 boys called Arlo, 1,433 called Mason, 1,400 called Albie and 1,356 called Jaxon, but only 9 Nigels.<\/p>\n<p>There's nothing more to be said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way back in what now almost seems another life, I used to travel round Somerset and Wiltshire watching PGCE students teach. \u00a0I got into the habit of looking at class lists to note the fore-names of those being taught, and...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}