'Game of Thrones' baby names still on the rise ahead of season 4 premiere on April 6, 2014

Game of Thrones is about to return for its fourth season this weekend, but an interesting new report came out this week that really captures the excitement over the show. According to this report, fans of the series are naming their babies after many of the characters, or are just using some influence from the show for more common names. What do you think of this news?

Happy Palace reports:

The real way to tell if a television show, movie or book has truly wormed its way into our culture is not to monitor online discussion or catalogue late night talk show guests. If you really want to know which pieces of art are making an impression on the public, pay attention to what people are naming their babies. And, apparently, we are in for an influx of little Westerosi children in the coming years: 

The website also included a graph with the report to show you some of the more popular names. As we expected, Arya is leading the pack:

Another interesting fact about baby names inspired by Game of Thrones is that some more common names are getting interesting spelling changes. What do we mean by that, you ask? Take a look at some examples (via):

Cameron: Camren, Camron, Camryn, Kameron, Kamron and Kamryn.
Colton: Colten, Kolten, Kolton
Danica: Danika
Dominic: Dominick, Dominik
Eric: Erick, Erik
Jacob: Jakob, Jaycob
Lucas: Lukas
Mackenzie: Makenzie, Mckenzie
Makayla: Mckayla, Michaela, Mikaela, Mikayla
Marcus: Markus, Marquis
Nicholas: Nickolas, Nicolas, Nikolas
Zachary: Zackary
Aiden:Aaden, Adan, Aden, Aidan, Aidyn, Aydan, Ayden, Aydin
Brayden: Braden, Bradyn, Braeden, Braiden, Braydon
Jayden: Jaden, Jadon, Jaeden, Jaiden, Jaidyn, Jaydon
Kaden: Caden, Caiden, Kaeden, Kaiden, Kayden
Adalyn: Adalynn, Addilyn, Adelyn, Adelynn
Raina: Rayna, Reyna
Reagan: Raegan, Regan
Zoey: Zoe, Zoie