Regretted Baby Names

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The rest of the list of most changed names is
like Aidan Connor, Elliott, Michael James, it was Isabella, Sophia
David and those are because, uh, people tend to abandon
names that are falling in the ranks of most popular names.
What that's right? Who a crap? I know, I know.

(00:22):
That's why I said that. The rest of the first
part of the list is funny. The second part makes
me hate humanity. I thought it was to be the opposite.
I thought it was gonna be a name your kid Brandon,
and then you realize all your friends just named their
kids Brandon too, And he thought, lait a second, No, opposite,
It is the opposite. People dump their kid's name because

(00:44):
it's falling in popularity and adopt a new one that's
rising in popularity. Good lord, Yeah, you shouldn't have had
a kid. Yeah, I know, your way too shallow, an
idiotic davage. I'm sorry. I realized that sounds are How
do you have the time to worry about this when
you got a baby? Yeah? Yeah, Well I'm moving along there, because,

(01:06):
like I said, there's all sorts of interesting data, specifically
on states and areas that have the most and fewest children.
Uh women, and I'm saying women because the day I
say birthing people is the day I die. Uh women
between the ages of thirty five. Um. The number who
are childless is in the District of Columbia. That's a city,

(01:30):
it's for that's a way outlier. That's full of young,
striving professionals, so forget it. But after that is interesting.
The highest rate of childlessness Vermont, Florida, Hawaii, Maine, West Virginia, Nevada, Oregon,
Rhode Island. The least childlessness is in Utah, as you

(01:52):
might expect, um. But the Washington Post admits they threw
all sorts of things at the wall try to try
to explain the list and how it's weighted one end
or another. Our first instinct was education, and indeed, uh,
the more educational woman gets, the less likely she is
to have a child. Um. And there seemed to be

(02:12):
some explanation of that, like Vermontain, Colorado, but it doesn't
explain Maine, West Virginia, Florida, and Nevada. Uh. So we
looked at religion, because yeah, some of the more religious
states have more kids, but then some of the least
religious states were on the list. Too, and they zeroed
in on marriage. They thought, yeah, where states where people

(02:34):
tend to get married later, they have fewer children. But
then they got into the standard urban progressive analysis of
this and said people are postponting marriage because housing prices
are high and stuff like that. That doesn't make any
sense to me. It's never made any sense. No, no, no,
no no. I can assign all kinds of charitable or
uncharitable examples to to all that you just told us,

(02:54):
but I don't know any of if any of it,
would be accurate. And one thing they looked at was
the prevalence of outdoor recreation opportunities. Whether that explained it,
because because I know a couple of all the time
say honey, do you want to have a child, or
go for a hike. Let's go for a hike. They've
got great softball leagues here, so I guess we won't
have kids. Are strong and yet