Most Popular Baby Names Deny Recession

LaurenKids Somewhere a team of psychologists is researching why, during the brink of economic collapse, new parents chose to christen their babies with names right off the roster of a Society Hill private school. According to a list released annually for Mother’s Day by the Social Security Administration, every baby born in 2009 will someday wear Ralph Lauren. In order, here are the most ~~pretentious~~ popular girls’ names:

Isabella
Emma
Olivia
Sophia
Ava
Emily
Madison
Abigail
Chloe
Mia

And the boys:

Jacob
Ethan
Michael
Alexander
William
Joshua
Daniel
Jayden
Noah
Anthony

One web site, MyBeautifulSophia, is ahead of the trend, promising to dress the “petite elite.” Once Jayden and Abigail grow up, the world, I fear, could be in trouble.

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I was at a drive-in in Santa Barbara about 30 years ago, and a group of mothers were there with their children who were all boys, about 5-6 years old. The boys started getting rambunctious as young boys will, and the mothers began piping up, “Trevor!” “Austin!” “Heath!” “Preston!” It simultaneously cracked me up and made me nauseous.

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Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“The man is afraid of the voice of the people and that the people understand and know what he’s doing. He’s trying to stifle the ability of journalists to let the people of America know what’s really going on with their government.”

— “Kamala Harris called President Donald Trump’s ban of CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House ‘absolutely abhorrent,’” The Wrap reports.

“Not one of them is trained in technical skills. Not one research PhD, as opposed to China, where half the cabinet is science and technology PhDs. We’re led by grifters and fools.”

— Columbia professor Jeffrey Sachs, on X, on President Trump’s 35-person cabinet.

“Mr. President, some of your immigration enforcement efforts have gone too far… The same Hispanics who helped you get to the White House in 2024 feel betrayed today.”

— Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL), breaking with President Trump in a direct-to-camera video.

Numerati

1,000

10%

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71%

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$9.5 billion

“The Trump administration last year spent $9.5 billion on paid administrative leave for federal workers as part of its plan to shrink the government and save taxpayers money, according to a new estimate by a congressional watchdog,” CNN reports.

470

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