How Amazon contributed to the drop in the number of babies named Alexa in the US, UK, and Canada, after an initial surge upon the device’s 2014 release (Joe Pinsker/The Atlantic)

Joe Pinsker / The Atlantic:
How Amazon contributed to the drop in the number of babies named Alexa in the US, UK, and Canada, after an initial surge upon the device’s 2014 release  —  Alexa used to be a name primarily given to human babies.  Now it’s mainly for robots.  —  Seven years ago, Amazon released Alexa …