Global Trend: Baby Names of Barack and Obama

December 15, 2008

By his own description, Barack Obama was “a skinny kid with a funny name,” but that isn’t stopping proud parents from Romania to Indonesia from naming their newborns after the U.S. president-elect.

Romania’s downtrodden Gypsies — once enslaved, like African Americans, yet still struggling to overcome deep-seated prejudice — seem particularly inspired.

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baby names December 17, 2008 at 12:11 pm

Another recent trend has been the use of online baby names Generators.

Give one a try and if you don’t find anything you like you can always fall back on Barack…

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