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Hollywood’s outsize influence on baby names

The name “Tristan” grew in popularity after Brad Pitt played a character with that name in the 1994 movie Legends of the Fall. | Katelyn Mulcahy/FIFA via Getty Images Have you noticed there are a lot of professional basketball players named Jalen? Well, it’s not just the NBA: There are a plethora of Jalens in the NFL, and even the NHL has one. How did this name get so popular? Did all their parents watch basketball in the 1990s and fall for Jalen Rose? There are many ways names come about, and according to Cleveland Kent Evans, there is something unique about naming traditions in the...