NYTimes: What's in a Name? Ask Google
The Times quotes a local mom on her search for unique names for her sons.
It seems every week, we open the Sunday Times and find that a local resident is providing a testimonial to a topic of general interest.
This week it's Deborah Goldstein, Patch contributor in Maplewood and South Orange and the writer of the popular blog Peaches & Coconuts. Goldstein is quoted in a story in the Sunday Styles section titled "What's in a Name? Ask Google."
The story details how modern parents are now turning to Google to vet potential names for their as-yet-unborn children.
Goldstein recounts how Google didn't provide enough information in her selection of Levi and Asher for her sons when she discovered that the names were fairly common in South Orange (though they were not in the top 100 in the Social Security Administration list). “It was two other Jewish lesbian moms with a child of the same name,” Ms. Goldstein said, after hearing another mom call out "Asher!" in a local ice cream parlor. “It [Google] didn’t tell us it’s a unique name unless you move to a neighborhood outside New York City where other trendy Jews are moving, too.”
Read the full story here.