Over the past few years Tesla, the electric-car maker, has emerged as one of the most innovative and valuable companies on the planet. And when stars and celebrities grab headlines, you can be sure their name will eventually show up in maternity wards.
So we probably shouldn?t be surprised that parents in the U.S. have suddenly started naming their babies (mostly girls) Tesla.

Elon Musk founded the car company in the early 2000s, but it wasn?t until 2008 and the launch of the Tesla Roadster that the company started to get noticed in a big way. That roughly corresponds with when Tesla started to catch on as a baby name.

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These numbers reflect baby names in America, and are drawn from the U.S. Social Security Administration, which releases an annual list of all baby names in the country. (Names used less than five times are not included for privacy reasons.) No national list exists in Canada, but while provincial lists show some scattered usage of the name, no trend similar to the U.S. has emerged, yet.
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