What is in a Name

Madeleine Dresden is a student producer at BYU radio who specializes in writing nonfiction segments. Madeleine Dresden has a lot of experience with brandishing a unique name. What are the most popular baby names in the country right now? New lists come out every year, in which names like Sophia, Ava, Liam and Asher score consistently in the top five. But what about the kids who are given unpopular names, or even difficult-to-pronounce ones? What’s it like to never see your name on souvenir keychains or Coke bottles? Who better to weigh in on this than our Life Lessons segment producer, Madeleine has set out to answer the age-old question: “What’s in a name?”