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I just saw this
http://www.behindthename.com/top/name/diamond
Diamond was top 200 in the 90s?! I never saw it. I still haven't seen anyone named it. Was it used only by a certain demographic? Was the usage inspired by a famous person or event?
- mirfak
http://www.behindthename.com/top/name/diamond
Diamond was top 200 in the 90s?! I never saw it. I still haven't seen anyone named it. Was it used only by a certain demographic? Was the usage inspired by a famous person or event?
- mirfak
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Diamond was the name of a gladiator in the TV show "American Gladiators" from 1990--93. Maybe this explains the peak in the 1990ies, but the name started raising in numbers before that date. "Something" happened in the early seventies (Neil Diamond? -- at that time there were more male diamonds than female ones), and again "something" happened around 1981/82 (don't know what).
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Diamond was a name used primarily in the African-American community.
So far the only possible event that might have inspired this I've been able to come up with is the release of Sade's first album, titled "Diamond Life", in 1985, the year before Diamond first made the top 1000 SSA list. However, since that was just the name of the album and there wasn't an individual song with that title this is still just a guess. It's often harder to figure out where the popularity of a name which is also a common word comes from.
So far the only possible event that might have inspired this I've been able to come up with is the release of Sade's first album, titled "Diamond Life", in 1985, the year before Diamond first made the top 1000 SSA list. However, since that was just the name of the album and there wasn't an individual song with that title this is still just a guess. It's often harder to figure out where the popularity of a name which is also a common word comes from.
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