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According to the daily newspaper Luxemburger Wort, the most popular baby names in Luxembourg in 2014 were Emma and Gabriel.
Here are Luxembourg’s top 7 girl names and top 7 boy names of 2014:
Girl Names
Boy Names
1. Emma
2. Lara
3. Zoé
4. Amy
5. Sarah
6. Charlotte
7. Emily
1. Gabriel
2. Leo
3. Luca
4. Noah
5. David
6. Tom
7. Ben
In Luxembourg, “[r]egistrars have the right to refuse names they deem ridiculous, discriminating, against the welfare of the child or infringing on the rights of third parties.” One of the rejected baby names of 2014 was Fanta; one of the newly approved names was Mewa.
Luxembourg’s first baby of 2014, born in January 1, was a girl named Sailey.
In late 1976, Alex Haley’s novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family was published.
The book tells the story of Kunta Kinte, an 18th-century African man who is captured, brought to North America, and sold as a slave to a Virginia plantation owner.
In January of 1977, an 8-episode TV miniseries based on the novel aired in on ABC.
The televised version of Roots was wildly popular — 9 Emmy Awards, 1 Golden Globe, 1 Peabody, and some of the highest Nielsen ratings of all time.
More importantly, though, it had an unprecedented influence on baby names, inspiring thousands African-American parents to name their babies after Roots characters and actors. Below are some examples.
Toby, the name given to Kunta Kinte by the plantation owner:
1981: 458 baby boys named Toby [rank: 375th]
1980: 648 baby boys named Toby [rank: 304th]
1979: 666 baby boys named Toby [rank: 299th]
1978: 884 baby boys named Toby [rank: 239th]
1977: 1,060 baby boys named Toby [rank: 209th]
1976: 1,095 baby boys named Toby [rank: 201st]
The usage of Toby declined quickly after Roots aired. Was it already on its way out? Was it pulled down by the slave-name association? Both? Hm…
Source: “Pride in ‘Roots’ Inspiring Blacks to Name Babies After Characters.” Morning Record and Journal 19 Mar. 1977: 14.
Image from Ebony, June 1977, page 76.