"Alberta" Fails to Catch On as Place-name for Girls, Despite Being Actual Girl's Name
"Alberta" is for, like, someone who has a doily collection or tries to overthrow the government or something," scoffs Melinda Banks coddling her daughter, Kelowna.
You know a Montana or a Dakota, but an Alberta? Data shows that Alberta is not riding the wave of popularity of naming one’s daughter, or drag queen persona, after a place on a map, imbuing one’s daughter with a rustic mystique or a sense of vast empowering majesty. This according to a new report from the Bourgeoise Trend Watcher International listing the top 100 most popular place names for girls.
“This province was named after Queen Victoria’s fourth daughter, Princess Louise Caroline Alberta. Alberta was originally established as a provisional district of the North West Territories in 1882.” Yet, while “the name was maintained when Alberta officially became a province in 1905,” according to Natural Resources Canada’s website, its cachet as a name for females has not.
Coming in near the bottom, after Dystopia and Titicaca, “Alberta” has fallen out of fashion as a moniker and has taken on a somewhat negative connotation, according to polling. It remains to be seen if this lack of popularity will become yet another wedge issue between Alberta and the rest of Canada.