[fieldmarshaldj]

"Madison, a name historically and traditionally given by White parents."

Historically and traditionally ? Virtually no one named their daughter that prior to 1984 when the movie "Splash" came out. After that, there was an explosion of "Madisons."

[PennsylvaniaMom]

Yes! And as someone who used to watch the “Young and the Restless” there were NO Ashley’s til Ashley (sister of Jack) showed up. Oh...and she was smart (a perfume chemist)!

[Dr. Sivana]

Virtually no one named their daughter that prior to 1984 when the movie "Splash" came out. After that, there was an explosion of "Madisons."

Yup, just like the name Ariel had a big uptick a few years later with "The Little Mermaid". Tough thing for a girl to aspire to be.

I remember being in a Staples in 1998, noticing the clerk's name was "Rhiannon", the gears in my mind started turning. "Rhiannon", number one song for Fleetwood Mac ... off of the big selling "Rumours" LP ... 1977 or so. Yup.

[Tammy8]

I knew a couple of boys named Madison before that movie, no girls.

[ifinnegan]

“Historically and traditionally ? Virtually no one named their daughter that prior to 1984 when the movie “Splash” came out. After that, there was an explosion of “Madisons.” “

That’s right. The supposedly historic names the author mentions aren’t. They are more recent trendy names that were traditionally last names.

When I went to school in the 60’s and 70’s there were:

Marks, Daves, Garys, Petes, Bobs, Toms, Tims, Jims, Eds, Teds, Larrys, Johns, Rogers, Carls, Darryls, Eugenes, Gregs, Pauls, Scotts, Kirks, Charlies, Brads, Dans...

No one had a first name like Conner, no Dylans or Jakes.