Have you ever wondered what the trendiest baby name of all time is?

　　你想不想知道最流行的宝宝名是什么?

　　Disney character names – like Moana， Belle， and Ariel – were very popular in 2017。

　　2017年最受欢迎的名字有：莫阿纳、贝尔、阿里尔，都是来自迪士尼的角色名。

　　Well， the trendiest American baby name ever may surprise you a little bit。

　　这个有史以来最流行的美国宝宝名字则可能会让你感到吃惊。

　　Quantifying trendiness is tricky， since there‘s no universally accepted way to calculate how much of a fad a name was。

　　把流行性定量化是一件很棘手的事，因为一直以来都没有一个能被广泛接受的方法去计算一个名字的时尚程度。

　　David Taylor， a biotechnologist and blogger， developed a metric that considers a name‘s popularity and the rate of its rise and decline。

　　生物技术专家David Taylor，也是位博主，根据名字的流行性和使用数量上升下降的比率生成了一个图表。

　　So while Mary was very， very popular， it was popular over a long time period， and therefore not trendy。

　　虽然Mary是一个长时间里一直相当相当受欢迎的名字，但是并不算流行。

　　Taylor discovered that in 1947， the name ~Linda~ skyrocketed in popularity when it was the baby name of nearly 5.5 percent of girls。

　　Taylor发现：Linda这个名字的流行性在1947年猛然上涨，当年几乎5.5%的女宝宝都用了这个名字。

　　究竟是为什么Linda突然就在1947年火起来了呢?

　　The name was made popular by musician， Jack Lawrence， whose song “Linda” was at the top of the Billboard charts。

　　这个名字的流行完全是由于音乐家Jack Lawrence的歌曲《琳达》登上了美国公告牌榜的首位的缘故。

　　Lawrence wrote the song for Linda Eastman who was the 5-year-old daughter of his attorney， Lee Eastman。 Linda would later become the first wife of Beatle‘s singer Paul McCartney。

　　Lawrence的这首歌是为他的律师Lee Eastman的五岁小女儿Linda Eastman而写的。Linda后来成为了披头士成员Paul McCartney 的第一任妻子。

　　Since then， no other US baby name has trended so much in such a short amount of time。

　　自此之后，没有任何一个宝宝名能在如此短时间内在美国这么流行。

　　And if you‘re wondering what the difference is between “popular” and “trendy，” well popular names are favored all the time while trendy names (like Linda) are wildly favored for a relatively short period of time。

　　如果你想知道“受欢迎”和“流行”之间的区别，可以这么说，受欢迎的名字是一直以来都被人喜爱的名字，而流行的名字(像是Linda)则是在一段相对短时间内让人极其喜欢的名字。

　　Another high profile example from pop culture is the name Shirley， spurred on by the child actress Shirley Temple。 Shirley peaked as a baby name in 1935。 Like Linda， it didn’t take long for it to decline in popularity。

　　另外一个因为流行文化而流行起来的名字就是Shirley，来自于著名的儿童演员Shirley Temple。Shirley在1935年迅速成为流行的宝宝名，就像Linda一样，它的流行性也很快下降。

　　Going by Taylor’s metric， all but one of the top 10 trendiest names of all time were girl‘s names。 The only top 10 name from male births is Dewey， with peak years at the end of the 19th century。 A recent compilation of 30 baby name fads by MooseRoots was also mainly names given to girls。

　　在Taylor的图表中，最流行的十大名字中有9个都是女孩名。唯一一个男名是Dewey，这个名字在19世纪末迅速流行起来。MooseRoots最近汇编的30个流行的宝宝名中大多数也是女孩名。

　　But will parents seek out new names en masse only for those to fall out of favor shortly thereafter? Absolutely。 Just as Britney and Miley have declined in recent years， so now Arya and Aria are seeing a bit of Game of Thrones-fueled growth (helped along by the show Pretty Little Liars)。 What new name will emerge from 2017? Don’t be surprised if a good amount of parents watching Stranger Things this year decide to name their baby girls Eleven。

　　但是现在的父母们会不会全体舍弃那些热门名字去找一些新名字给自己的宝宝呢?答案是肯定的。名字像Britney和Miley这样的在近些年都用的越来越少了，而Arya和Aria在《权力的游戏》助力下被用的越来越多(还有《美少女的谎言》)。2017年又崛起了哪些名字呢?你可千万别惊讶要是有一群父母看着《怪奇物语》就决定给他们的宝贝闺女起名叫Eleven。

　　So， listen Linda。 You go tell the world that you have the trendiest name ever in US history。

　　注意啦，叫Linda的孩子们!你可以告诉全世界，你的名字是美国历史上最流行的名字!