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Current mood:  pleased Category: News and Politics
In brief, this post, to which I was alerted by Nextbook, reveals the increasing popularity of Cohen as a baby name. A first name.
"What’s especially ironic, and to some galling, about the rising
popularity of Cohen as a first name is that the people who love it seem
to be just about as un-Jewish as you can get," the article says. "Google 'Cohen is my
favorite name' and you’ll find family pictures featuring toy guns and
rebel flags. On being assured on one name board that using the name
Cohen would not necessarily offend Jews, one mom-to-be wrote, 'That's
great to hear!! We live in a small town in the Midwest and I've never
met a Jewish person IRL.'
The article gives good background on the Jewishness of Cohen, and mixes it up with the reality-TV nuttiness of the new Cohen-namers. Popular culture is behind the Cohen Craze, it says, but there is more than a little internal poetics as well. (Wired weighs in on the social science of baby naming.)
Only in America, yes?
Take a read and let me know your reaction.♦ ♦ ♦
See also The Jewish Angle on baby names here and here.
And please visit my new blog, DavidWroteThis.
8:05 PM
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