Britney Spears’ Influence To Be Felt For Generations To Come

noah | October 23, 2008 12:45 pm

The No. 2 name for babies in New York City last year: “Jayden,” which wasn’t even on the list’s top 10 in 2006. What inspired this name to get a bullet on the Hot Baby 100? “Britney Spears seems to have shifted the standard spelling. That name used to be spelled every which way, but now the ‘y’ spelling has become dominant,” “baby name expert” Laura Wattenberg says. [City Room via Gothamist]