15 Years Ago I Made a Prediction. Here’s How it Turned Out. : Namerology
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The trends I got right—and wrong—reveal a pattern. Where do they point for the baby name future?
15 Years Ago I Made a Prediction. Here’s How it Turned Out. January 7, 2025 LauraWattenberg 4 Comments The trends I got right—and wrong—reveal a pattern. Where do they point for the baby name future? Making predictions is fun. Facing up to the results, though, can be humbling. In the past, I’ve held other people’s baby name forecasts up to the reality mirror, notably the economic-class-based predictions of the book Freakonomics. Now it’s time to face the music myself. I recently came across a list I created back in 2009. Parents Magazine had challenged me to look a decade into the future…
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