One of my cousins (in the US) has a daughter named
Nova. She was born in 2011, which was the first year it reentered the Top 1000, after last featuring in 1938.
Cousin looked up
Nova back in 2012, after the stats for 2011 were released, and was surprised to see it was even Top 1000. She didn't think anything of it after that though, until I e-mailed her yesterday, showing
Nova sitting at #95 last year, jokingly saying to her "so I guess this makes you a trendsetter?!" Her reply to me was, "What? WHAT? WHAT WHAT WHAT?!"
It's had a rather rapid rise, and as of yet, I can't pinpoint why. I think it may climb a bit higher, but I don't think it'll ever hit the Top 25 or anything like that. [Waits to be proven wrong in a few years]
Anyway, I quite like it, and it really suits my cousin's daughter. She chose it, because she loves the band Oasis, so is inspired from the song Champagne Supernova. The name wasn't well-received by everyone in our family, with another cousin labelling it 'a typical teen mom trash name' (cousin was 16 when her daughter was born).
~Charley~
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