Amazon's Alexa Wiped the Name Off the Baby Chart After a Decade-Long Surge
BraydonDymm · x · 2026-10-15
Reacting to Ethan Mollick's joke about people named Al suffering in the sans-serif era, a user shared a chart of US baby names: after Amazon launched its assistant Alexa in 2014, girls named Alexa per 10k births—which had climbed steadily through the 1990s and 2000s to over 30—collapsed back near historic lows by 2020. A textbook case of a product name destroying a human name.
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