Is it crazy to name your child after a German clone with an unknown, seemingly respiratory disease who gets shot through the head by a fellow clone who has been released on a mission to hunt down her “unnatural” likenesses?

In the United States, the answer is apparently, no.  At least, with only data showing the number of children given each name, that’s the case.

The Social Security Administration has lists of the names people register for babies each year going back to 1880, and earlier this month put out the one for 2013.  Several media organizations did stories about the trends within, most of them about the most popular names of the year.  Vox broke down how the number of kids named after Game of Thrones characters rose again in 2013.

I’m going in a different television direction with the show Orphan Black, which features much more mainstream names along with a few that barely crack the list each year (the SSA files only list those names with at least five kids).  The show’s main actress, the supremely talented Tatiana Maslany, plays all of the clones, which include Elizabeth, Sarah, Cosima, Helena, Alison, Rachel, Aryanna, Janika, Danielle and the subject of my first sentence, Katja.

I would not have guessed this high, but there were 22 kids named Katja last year.  That marked a resurgance for the name, which hit 27 in 2004 and had dropped all the way to just 12 kids in 2012.  What happened in 2013?  Orphan Black premiered.  Parents rushed to name their daughters Katja. (Pretend for the sake of this post that there can be absolutely no other explanation.)  Janika saw a similar return to glory, while Cosima continued its steady rise.

The main male character in the show, Felix, also received a bump in its popularity, growing 13 percent over 2012.  But whatever effect the show has had on the television landscape, its power in boosting names stops there.  Both Helena, perhaps the best clone, and Aryanna, a name given to a shocking number of people, had essentially no growth.

Alison, another contender for top clone, saw a slight decline, while every other clone character continued the sharp drop that has been befalling them since at least 2004.  Sarah’s decline saddens me the most since she is my favorite.  Maybe as more people get into season 2 of the show that name will make a comeback in 2014.

I would absolutely predict a massive surge in girls named Kira, breaking the stagnant trend for that name thanks to the adorable little actress playing Sarah’s daughter.  Props to anyone who names one of their twin girls Seestra.