Da auch bei uns in der Firma der Babyboom greift ist dieser Artikel recht passend:
Baby names starting with K, such as Karl and Katie, became about 9% more popular after Hurricane Katrina, evidence that parents´choices about what to call their children are influenced by the sound of names in the news, says a team led by Jonah Berger of The Wharton School.
The more damaging, and thus the more prominent, a hurricane, the more popular are names containing sounds similar to the storm´s designation. It´s possible that commercial products also become more popular if their names sound like other things that have been prevalent recently, the researchers suggest.
[Source: From Karen to Katie: Using Baby Names to Understand Cultural Evolution]
