Earlier this year I met a child named Alexa and was slightly horrified for her as I imagined having to grow up in a world dominated by Amazon’s popular bot.
I suspected she might be the last Alexa. What kind of parent would name a child Alexa today?
Amazon Alexa was born in 2014. It turns out that rather than take a permanent dip as I’d suggest, the popularity of the name Alexa jumped from 63rd to 32nd in popularity for 2015 but has settled back into 65th place for 2017.
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The top baby names for 2017 were Emma and Liam as measured by the Social Security Administration.
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Fortunately, Echo and Dot are not in the top 1,000 baby names at this time.
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