Baby Names Nobody Uses Anymore (Thanks to Horror)

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A lot of horror villains have ordinary, everyday names like Jason, Freddy or Norman. But do new parents shy away from those names when having a baby or gravitate towards them?

In this video I went through the actual data from the Social Security Administration database and websites dedicated to baby names to answer one question: do horror villains make certain names more or less popular. The answer was a little more nuanced than I thought it would, but there were some very interesting takeaways.

Chapters
0:00 Finding The Perfect Name
1:19 Intro
1:36 Zelda
2:50 J-Horror Names
3:24 Jack the Ripper
4:38 Norman and Norma Bates
7:35 Regan MacNeil
11:39 Carrie White
13:58 Damien Thorn
16:22 The Slashers
23:15 Freddy Fazbear
24:21 1990s Killers
24:35 2000s Villains
25:09 Samara Morgan
27:35 Annabelle
28:42 Art the Clown
30:10 How to Actually Kill a Name
31:55 Do Parents Really Consider Pop Culture When Naming?

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Credits
✏️ Writer - Zac Morris
✏️ Writer - Larry Santana
👤 Host - Zac Morris
🎵 Original Music - Jimmy Roman (© CZsWorld)
✂️ Editor - Andrew Botz-Zapp
✂️ Editor - Varak Mouradian

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