I will tell you another thing that has died a death in the UK. Perhaps pay a small fee to parents who are willing to give their child a name that’s at risk of eradication? Just as there are organisations in the UK that fight to revive the popularity of dog breeds that are no longer considered cool (the bearded collie and the dandie dinmont terrier, for example), we need campaigners to help ensure that Andrew, Christopher (another sorry loser) and Norman (almost dodo status) don’t vanish entirely. Things used to be so different when Andy Warhol was alive. Sadly, I don’t see much hope of a bounce-back, with the UK’s shamed and shunned Prince Andrew being the best-known person to fly the flag for the name (well, he hasn’t got much else to do). The name is at risk of dying out but you only have to go back to the 1990s for a time when Andrew was in the top 10. But Andrew? It didn’t even make the top 100. Noah, Oliver and George took the top three spots for boys and Olivia, Amelia and Isla the same for girls. This week the Office for National Statistics published lists of the most popular names given to boys and girls last year in England and Wales. It seems that I am now so unpopular that I might soon face extinction.
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