It's still useful; you just have to use your head more -- you have to think about what the odds might be that a 1st-tier celebrity is named after the song, and how many other people might be named after it because of that, for example. It might not be a perfectly encapsulated summary of the spike in "Jude" names, complete with SVG charts (and a control group showing no similar spike in "Sharona" babies in the early '80s) but it'll never grow into that if the reference is removed off the bat.
On 2/24/06, John Lee johnleemk@gawab.com wrote:
Ben Yates wrote:
"[[Jude Law]] was named after the song"
That's a useful bit of information, though: it illustrates how incredibly influential the song was, and the sway the Beatles had over a british generation.
Not if you don't have a source to back up the latter assertion as well as the assertion that Law's naming was because of this cultural influence (instead of, say, his mother hearing the song on the radio just before going into labour).
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