The Huffington Post analyzed a baby-names Web site and concluded that the following names are having something of a renaissance this year: Rue, Emmett, Ivy, Weston, Wesley, West, Adele (!), Grayson, Gray, Aria, Cyrus, Estelle, Cato, and Blythe. “The Hunger Games [has taken] over for Twilight as the primary cultural influence on names,” Pamela Redmon Satran and Linda Rosenkrantz write. (Debbie Guildenstern, on vacation in Denmark, was unavailable to participate.)
But what are the least popular baby names of 2012? An analysis of other cultural forces and trends suggests the following:
What else? (No, that’s not a name. Although . . . sure, let’s add What Else to the list. A sort of unusual name for girls.) What else? Let us know in the comments.