Parents drop Katrina as a baby name

[fuzzis]

Interesting (http://news.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070511/NEWS18/70511007&oaso=news.rgj.com/breakingnews)...

Ironically, the two states that suffered most of Katrina’s wrath bucked the trend, if only in small numbers. In Louisiana, the number of babies named Katrina jumped from eight in the 12 months before the storm to 15 in the 12 months after, according to state health officials. In Mississippi, seven babies were given the name from 2004 until the storm hit in August 2005, according to state data. The number climbed to 24 from September 2005 through the end of 2006.

[jmb]

It's not surprising that People in Mississippi and Louisiana would pay homage to Katrina like that. Not so much to Katrina itself, but to the peoples' lives that were touched.

[mac]

When the storm hit, I had a student named Katrina. She was..how you say...slightly large. And fiesty. Her classmates took to calling her Hurricane Katrina.

It fit nicely, and (much to my relief) she embraced the new nickname.