Examples of names becoming more popular when a celebrity with that name dies unexpectedly. Data from the Social Security Administration, graphs from WolframAlpha. Y-axis is proportion of babies born each year in the US with that name.
Name: SELENA
Year: 1995
Name: FARRAH
Year: 2009
(Note: Charlie's Angels premiered in 1976.)
Name: AALIYAH
Year: 2001
Name: KOBE
Year: 2020
(Window is limited, sorry. Put another way, Kobe went from the 557th most popular baby name in 2019 to the 239th in 2020.)
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