{"id":100150,"date":"2016-07-29T11:13:32","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T09:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=100150"},"modified":"2016-07-29T11:14:27","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T09:14:27","slug":"how-pokemon-gos-popularity-is-influencing-2016s-baby-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/nintendo\/100150-how-pokemon-gos-popularity-is-influencing-2016s-baby-names","title":{"rendered":"How Pokemon GO’s popularity is influencing 2016’s baby names"},"content":{"rendered":"

Parents have begun naming their children after Pokemon, following the massive recent success of Pokemon GO, reports CNET<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Eevee, Roselia and Onyx are all on the rise as popular girls names, while “Ash” seems to be the most\u00a0name for boys.<\/p>\n

This shouldn’t be too surprising, as a new poll also reports that nearly 50% of BabyCenter moms are playing Pokemon Go<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

“Parents are always looking to pop culture for baby name inspiration and, right now, it doesn’t get hotter than Pokemon Go,” Linda Murray, BabyCenter’s global editor-in-chief, said in a statement. “It’s possible that parents’ enthusiasm for the game will reignite their love for the brand and spark a full-fledged naming trend.”<\/p>\n

2015 saw a spike in girls named Hazel after the success of The Fault in our Stars, while more than 200 boys were named Anakin in 2014.<\/p>\n

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Check out some of the ridiculous new baby names thanks to Pokemon GO’s massive popularity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":98544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2226,6],"tags":[31,20898,20896,20314],"class_list":["post-100150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","category-nintendo","tag-active","tag-baby","tag-name","tag-pokemon-go"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100152,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100150\/revisions\/100152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}