Nancy’s Baby Names

The baby name Savannah, which was on the rise during the 1990s, saw its biggest jump in usage in 1996 specifically:

On September 11, 2001, Islamic militants carried out four coordinated terrorist attacks against the United States. The attacks killed nearly 3,000 people, mostly in New York City.

We’ve already seen how the events of 9/11 affected the usage of baby names associated with specific people (like

Back in March — not long after AI chatbot Claude saw a surge in sign-ups (following Anthropic’s refusal to allow the U.S. Department of Defense to use its AI for things like mass domestic surveillance and fully autono...

The popularity of the relatively uncommon name Savannah began rising in the early 1980s:

The uncommon name Allante debuted in the U.S. baby name data as both a boy name and a girl name in 1987: