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Is your name still common? What Canadian baby names reveal about how we’ve changed

By Neil Guppy, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of British Columbia

A given name holds the spark of identity. It is ours — we wear it — yet it is also the primary label by which others know us. Names are inherently both personal and public.

Some choices are idiosyncratically memorable. Two of Elon Musk’s children are named X Æ A-Xii and Exa Dark Sideræl. Recent name registrations in Alberta include Coyote, Rebel and Teal’C.

More broadly, these parental…

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