Does this mean Ty-D-Bol makes a good baby name?

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Call us dull, but we’ve always liked the stiff upper-lip simplicity of British names like  Henry, Edward, George, Victoria and Elizabeth, those dignified monikers infused with the rich, centuries-old traditions of kings and queens. Now we learn that the House of Tudor is being replaced by the household flat pack of Sweden. Bounty, a U.K. marketing firm which provides starter kits of baby products to consumers, reports that names like Ikea, for little girls, turned up among the country’s more than 600,000 births registered over the past twelve months.

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