Rue is also an herb.

The offshore QA tester has been sending his results to all the developers and the guy who usually project manages the regular releases. And the usual PM has been forwarding them to me. For, like, a week and a half. Finally, I ask other guy--why doesn't QA send them to me? "You didn't ask."

You are right. I am remiss in this. But, seriously, he's really good with forwarding to me for another week and a half? How is he not irritated enough to say "Man, leave me out of this. It's not my project."

I suspect a point is being made, and I might just ignore it as long as the email is in my inbox every morning. There are better ways to make that point.

So no one's heard of Ayrton Senna, I take it? That's far more likely to Me than "female Cinna" ridiculousness.

What would a male racecar driver's last name have to do with a female baby name, though?

I couldn't see how it was actually confined to female babies; plus there was a very successful documentary recently. What does Senna have to do with Cinna?

The nameberry page doesn't say anything about Cinna--I haven't worked out yet where that connection is being drawn, unless it's just pronunciation. It does mention Ayrton Senna, but not as the genesis of the name. Rather it calls it an Arabic floral name, talks about the herbal use, and mentions it appears in Twilight and Korra: [link] . I don't see why Ayrton would be a big part of the rationale here.

Wouldn't it be nice if a name entry told you when the name came into use--if not in general, at least in Western tradition? I can't work out if Senna has been an arabic name/flower name for centuries, but no one thought to name a girl that until 1930, or what. As the owner of the least-well-researched name (not counting my sister's), I think it's useful for context, if not the actual decision-making.

A lot of baby name books will tell you when the name first came into use, and when and where it was most popular.

"Cinna" makes me think of Julius Caesar.

"I am Cinna the poet! I am Cinna the poet!"

(edited to fix typos)

The name site says it's a girl's name--I'm assuming they have numbers behind that. The page is incredibly low on data, but they do seem adamant on female. It's a female name in Korra (Korra's mother) and in Twilight, so since it's not actually Ayrton's first name, that's two instances of it being a woman's first name and none of a man's.

I know some sources have information--it's just that the one that's the source of this "peak" has got remarkably little where I can find it (and of course, I'm contributing to the peak by looking at the page, since they're not reporting on people being named Senna, just pageviews). How precisely self-feeding, just like they wanted.