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Israeli couple “likes” the name Like

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May 17, 2011

There are certainly more important things to report from Israel, but this is odd enough for some attention: An Israeli couple have chosen to name their daughter “Like”—because I guess “Comment” seemed like a male name.

Here’s why the father says they picked that name, via ” title=”names mentioned in "Freakonomics"” target=”_blank”>names mentioned in “Freakonomics” were odd.

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