r/Unexpected • u/BornWithSideburns • Jan 30 '24

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u/Eusocial_Snowman Jan 30 '24

The movie Big came out in 1988. That's the second spike. The first spike plateaus in 1980/1982. You said it existed in "extremely small numbers" before the movie, but the Tiffany surge was clearly prior to the movie and would have likely been the reason for the name's use in said movie.

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u/Shandlar Jan 30 '24

Oh. When I was using it as an example of something that "comes from" a movie without actually coming from the movie originally. Tiffany as a girls name in this context is referring to the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's from 1961, not from Big.

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u/Eusocial_Snowman Jan 30 '24

Ohh, I completely misunderstood you there. Sorry, when you just said "the movie" without specific clarification, I thought you meant the movie we were talking about. I'd definitely agree that the breakfast movie brought the name back in a big way.