![]() Now the part-owner of, a website devoted to helping mothers pick baby names, she began her particular trade with the book, Beyond Jennifer & Jason: An Enlightened Guide to Naming Your Baby, first published in 1988. ![]() She couldn’t take it, so she became Rosie,” Ms. “I had a niece who changed her name from Jennifer. The name on my birth certificate reads: Jennifer Lorraine Gerson. Its popularity didn’t waver, it plummeted faster than an optimistic stock market puffed out on subprime credit and never recovered. “The Jennifer epidemic came to signify a whole generation.”Īnd then one year the name just fell out of use. “Jennifer is a case unto itself,” says Linda Rosenkrantz, who has been studying baby name trends since the ’80s. ![]() This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt. ![]()
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