Evolution of names for kids
San Francisco Chronicle, July 31, 2005

"Once a name catches on among high-income, highly educated parents, it starts working its way down the socioeconomic ladder," he wrote. High-end names become low-end names and eventually become dead-end names.

For their daughter, the Levitts chose Sophie from a list of two dozen girl's names that are popular today with highly educated parents. He predicts these names -- like Aviva, Flannery, Linden, Maeve and Waverly -- will be as common in 10 years as Emily, Hannah and Madison are today.
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Since "Freakonomics" became a hit (it's No. 4 on Amazon.com), Levitt has had less time to do research, but he has been deluged with new data, which he calls the key to his work.

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There's more to a stat than we know.
"Freakonomics", the research will show,
Points to a trend
Which you can befriend
When a name on your child you bestow.