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Should You Name Your Baby Anakin? The Rising Popularity of a ‘Star Wars’ Baby Name Gwynne WatkinsWriterAugust 7, 2015 Hayden Christensen goes evil in?‘Revenge of the Sith’ (Lucasfilm) This year, a surprising baby name appeared for the first time on the Social Security Administration’s?annual list?of?the top 1,000 baby names in the United States.?“Anakin” made its chart debut at #957, the name having been bestowed on exactly 218 baby boys in 2014.?Granted, Anakin hovers near the bottom of the boys’ list, with nowhere near the popularity of Top-10 names like Jacob, Liam and Noah. ?But its appearance is noteworthy, because Anakin didn’t exist as a name until George Lucas invented it for?Star Wars.?Its one and only cultural association is the character Anakin Skywalker, the father of Luke Skywalker and a once promising Jedi knight who became the evil Darth Vader. How did the name of one of pop culture’s most iconic villains?(#3 on the AFI list) become an option for hundreds of newborns? The answer says less about parents turning to the Dark Side, and more about how ubiquitous?Star Wars?has become in American culture. The name Anakin appears in the earliest draft of the?Star Warsscreenplay in 1974, when writer-director George Lucas toyed with the idea of calling his lead character?Annikin Starkiller, before ultimately deciding on Luke Skywalker. ?How Lucas arrived at the name is unknown. It was long thought that he named the character for British director Ken Annakin, but?Lucas himself denied this?when Annakin died in 2009. The English language has no traditional equivalent of the name, though it does resemble?the Nordic girls’ name Anniken. ? “Anakin” was first mentioned on the big screen in 1983’s?Return of the Jedi,?when the ghost of Obi-Wan Kenobi told Luke that his father had “ceased to be Anakin Skywalker and became Darth Vader.” The reference was fleeting though, and remembered only by devoted?Star Wars?aficionados. That changed 10 years later, when Lucas announce