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1 week agoOaklee, Oakley, Oakleigh: Parents branch out to oak-based names, especially in red states
"Clearly, there's a pattern," says Dallin D. Oaks, an English linguistics professor at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, who has written about names, especially among Latter-day Saints. He has reviewed data from red and blue states, as ranked politically by the International Business Times. "Every one of the top ten red states had either an Oaklynne or an Oakley or both, or something in the top 100 names," he said.
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