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International Business Times UK
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The First Lady Effect? American Parents Stopped Naming Their Babies 'Melania' After Trump's First Term

An unverified report claims Melania Trump deliberately kept Don Jr and Ivanka off the guest list for Barron Trump’s 20th birthday, underlining how separate the youngest Trump son’s life appears from the rest of the family. (Credit: U.S. Department of State from United States, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

The baby name, Melania, disappeared from the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 baby-name rankings after Donald Trump's first term in the White House, according to federal naming data reviewed by NOTUS.

The name briefly entered the rankings in 2017, the year Melania Trump became First Lady, but it has not appeared among the nation's most popular girls' names before or after that period.

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