Thanks to Amazon, many parents wont name their kids Alexa

Thanks to Amazon, many parents won't name their kids Alexa Thanks to Amazon, many parents won't name their kids Alexa You won’t be having any coworkers called Alexa anytime soon. According to new  Social Security data crunched by  University of Maryland sociology professor Philip Cohen, Alexa became an increasingly unpopular baby name after Amazon released its personal virtual assistant Alexa in 2015.After its release, the popularity of the name dramatically dropped off. Cohen found its popularity dropped by 21.3% in 2016, and another  19.5% last year.After computer Alexa, fewer human AlexasSince Amazon Echo was first released, it has introduced us to  Alexa, the  virtual assistant we can command with a simple, “Alexa, tell me today’s weather.”Ladders is now on SmartNews!Download the SmartNews app and add the Ladders channel to read the latest career news and advice wherever you go.Through Amazon Echo’s smart speaker, we may have learned to think of the name Alexa as one befitting a robot, not a human.The year of Alexa’s debut, 6,050 babies were named Alexa. In 2017, that number has fall en to 3,883.  Maybe, parents don’t want a name that we know can be bossed around? Whatever the reason, the dropoff in Alexa’s popularity shows us how technology can influence what should be in a name.