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Re:US boy names that became girl names and vice versa on Monday November 02, 2026 @03:29PM (#50343252)
As someone who doesn't have kids yet and so doesn't meet a lot of new borns I found the names on this super surprising. Our intuition around names is almsot exclusively formed by our own age group and people older than us. For many of this it was shocking to me that within my lifetime (I'm under 30) names had gone from almost exclusively male to exclusively female. I guess this is why you end up with so many parents all choosing the same small set of names each believing they are choosing a unique name because they've never met an adult with that name.
Re:HYTRADBOI 2025 post-mortem on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @04:29PM (#43259970)
The willingness to pay is a bit surprising to me (64$ for a streamed conference that will get posted for free afterwards seems high). Doesn't seem like organizer spent anything on advertising - might be useful in the future.