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Pop Culture Baby Name Game 2011!
2011-12-02 16:18:00 Today is Britney Spears’s birthday. (Happy 30th, B!) And you know what happens every year when Brit’s birthday rolls around: the Pop Culture Baby Name Game ! What’s the game all about? Well, we try to predict which pop culture-inspired baby … Continue reading → More About: Pop Culture
Name Discrimination at Elite Firms?
2011-12-01 22:16:00 A couple of weeks ago, Bryan Caplan of the libertarian blog Library of Economics and Liberty published How Elite Firms Hire: The Inside Story, a summary of an academic paper about the hiring practices of elite professional service firms (investment … Continue reading → More About: Discrimination
Baby Name from a Dream
2011-12-01 16:15:00 Actress Elisabeth Rohm had a baby girl named Easton in 2008. How did she choose her daughter’s name? It came to her a dream: “In the dream I was picking her up from a friend’s house, and she wouldn’t respond … Continue reading → More About: Baby , Dream
Baby Name Inspired by Sales Tax
2011-12-01 16:15:00 In 1933, the state of Utah adopted a sales tax. In November of 1936, Mr. and Mrs. Roy F. Tygesen of Salt Lake City welcomed a baby girl. They named her Penny. Why? “We thought that would be appropriate since … Continue reading → More About: Baby , Sales
The Baby Name Vaitiare
2011-11-30 22:14:00 While researching the name Tiare on Monday, I found another Tahitian name on the SSA’s baby name list: 1991 – 5 baby girls named Vaitiare Tahitian model/actress Vaitiare Hirshon, who dated Julio Iglesias for much of the ’80s, may have … Continue reading → More About: Baby
Babies Named for the Original Celebutante
2011-11-30 22:14:00 Like Cobina Wright, Jr., Brenda Diana Duff Frazier (1921-1982) was a wealthy American débutante who rose to fame toward the end of the Great Depression. Her coming-out party, held at the Ritz-Carlton in December of 1938, attracted a remarkable amount … Continue reading → More About: Babies , Original
Did You Send Me an Email?
2011-11-30 10:13:00 Sadly, I’m pretty sure most/all of my outgoing emails have not been reaching their intended recipients lately. I think I’ve found a work-around, but now I’m stuck — which responses need to be re-sent? I have no idea how long … Continue reading → More About: Email , Send
Baby Name Story: Tesselschade
2011-11-30 10:13:00 The other day, I visited the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam website to admire Still Life with Gilt Cup by Willem Claeszoon Heda. (Here’s more on the name Claeszoon.) A few clicks later, I was learning about römer drinking glasses (there’s one in … Continue reading → More About: Baby , Story
Brazilian Baby Names
2011-11-29 10:12:00 The LA Times published an interesting article on Brazilian baby names several years ago (1999). Here are some highlights: * Brazilian parents who like creative spellings tend to gravitate toward the letters K, W and Y because — at the … Continue reading → More About: Baby
The Baby Name Tiare
2011-11-29 10:12:00 Somerset Maugham’s The Moon and Sixpence, which I finished reading over the weekend, introduced me to an interesting new name — Tiaré. While in Tahiti, the narrator of the book meets a half-Tahitian, half-English woman named Tiaré Johnson. She was … Continue reading → More About: Baby
Which Names Are the Most Scottish?
2011-11-25 16:08:00 Several years ago, UK marketing firm CACI came up with a way to quantify the “Scottishness” of a name. They looked at tens of millions of forenames and surnames across the UK and asked: are these names more common in … Continue reading →
Do You Have a Restaurant Name?
2011-11-24 22:05:00 After reading about Vigen Nazarian the other day, I was inspired to look up Armenian names. One of the names I found was Nareg Seferian, which belongs to a fellow who has decided to go by “Joe” in restaurants: I … Continue reading → More About: Restaurant
Baby Boy in Turkey Named Railroad
2011-11-24 22:05:00 From a short article printed in several newspapers in mid-1929: This Anatolian city [Konya] wins the prize for “modernization” with the recent bestowal upon a boy of the name of “Railroad.” He was born on a train. I wish they’d … Continue reading → More About: Baby , Turkey
10 Tech-Inspired Baby Names Like ?Like?
2011-11-24 10:04:00 A few months ago, PCWorld published a list of 10 tech-inspired baby names better than Like. I thought I’d compile a similar list, but go in the opposite direction. So below are ten real-life, headline-grabbing, tech-inspired names just like Like. … Continue reading → More About: Baby , Tech
Names Still Don?t Make Good Passwords
2011-11-24 10:04:00 Last week, Mashable posted a list of the 25 worst passwords of 2011. The list included three names: Ashley (#16), Bailey (#17) and Michael (#24). Names didn’t make good passwords two years ago, and they still don’t make good passwords … Continue reading → More About: Make , Good
Audible Name Tags via ANTVibes
2011-11-23 10:04:00 Just learned about an interesting new company called ANTVibes. The company was founded by Vigen Nazarian, a Canandian originally from Iran. His experiences with name mispronunciation inspired him to develop technology to help people learn to say difficult-to-pronounce names. An … Continue reading → More About: Tags
Top Wisconsin Baby Name: ?Baby??
2011-11-23 10:04:00 In early 1910s, about 40% of the over 60,000 babies born annually in Wisconsin were not named at birth, so they had “no official name on the state records.” This fact led one newspaper to joke: The most popular name … Continue reading → More About: Baby
Baby Name Needed ? Name that Goes with Felicity?
2011-11-23 10:04:00 A reader is having a baby girl and looking for “a pretty first name.” Bonus points if it starts with an S. She says: Our last name is a hard German name that starts with a K and rhymes with … Continue reading → More About: Baby
An Ignorant Take on Chinese Names
2011-11-23 10:04:00 I’m fascinated by the bizarre/offensive stuff one finds in old newspapers. This name-related item, which ran in a North Carolina newspaper exactly 100 years ago today, is a case in point. Reading the reports that come from war-ridden China and … Continue reading → More About: Chinese
Baby Named for Atlantic Ocean
2011-11-19 22:01:00 In 1912, a woman named Atlanta White applied for a marriage license to marry one William Brown. But the marriage license clerk wasn’t sure what to fill in for Atlanta’s nationality. Why? Because Atlanta White was “born on an American … Continue reading → More About: Baby , Ocean
Woman Dies on the Mountain She Was Named For
2011-11-19 22:01:00 In 1948, American mountaineer William F. Unsoeld saw India’s Nanda Devi peak for the first time. “I had a dream about Nanda Devi,” he later recalled. “I dreamed of having a daughter to name after the peak.” And that’s exactly … Continue reading → More About: Woman
Baby Names Needed for 3 Baby Boys (Triplets)
2011-11-19 22:01:00 A reader with eight (!) children is expecting three (!!) more — identical triplets, all boys. She says: “[T]o be completely honest about the names, my brain is literally just too darn tired to think of names for not one, … Continue reading → More About: Baby
Baby Name for Sale in Israel
2011-11-18 03:58:00 More baby name news from Israel : An Israeli family is selling the right to name their unborn baby. They placed an advertisement in the ultra-orthodox newspaper Yated Ne’eman on Tuesday. The family is looking to name the baby for “a … Continue reading → More About: Baby , For Sale , Sale
Parents Name Baby Dovahkiin, Get Free Video Games
2011-11-17 21:57:00 Back in February, video game company Bethesda Softworks announced that it would give a prize to the parents of any 11/11/11 baby named Dovahkiin after the protagonist of their game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. The name Dovahkiin means “dragonborn” … Continue reading → More About: Video , Baby , Video Games , Games , Free
Baby Named for Virtual Newscaster Ananova
2011-11-17 21:57:00 In April of 2000, the world’s first virtual newsreader, Ananova, began broadcasting on the Web. According to her creators, green-haired Ananova was 28 years old, single, and delivered news in a “pleasant, quietly intelligent manner.” (I’ve seen old clips, though, … Continue reading → More About: Baby , Virtual
Top Baby Names in Israel ? Noam, Noa
2011-11-17 21:57:00 According to Israel ’s Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), the most popular baby names in Israel over the last decade were Noam (for boys) and Noa (for girls). Other popular baby names were Itai, Uri, Yehonatan, Daniel, David, Ariel and Eden … Continue reading → More About: Baby
The Baby Name Sonjia
2011-11-17 09:56:00 In 1938, the name Sonjia was the top debut name for baby girls. Where did it come from? It’s a misspelling of the name Sonja, which nearly doubled in popularity the same year: 1936 – 180 baby girls named Sonja … Continue reading → More About: Baby
Confirmation Name Needed for Convert
2011-11-17 09:56:00 One of my readers — a married mom of four — is looking for a confirmation name. She’s in RCIA and will be confirmed next Easter. Here’s what she says: So many of my “classmates” are choosing particular saints because … Continue reading → More About: Convert
Babies Named Augie for Fallen Marine
2011-11-17 09:56:00 Speaking of touching baby name stories… Lance Cpl. Edward “Augie” Schroeder II was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq in August of 2005, when he was just 23 years old. Three years later, Augie’s father, Paul Schroeder, received an … Continue reading → More About: Babies , Marine
Baby Name Story: Return
More articles from this author:2011-11-15 15:53:00 In 1708, a baby boy named Return was born in Guilford, CT. His parents were Janna Meigs* (1672-1739) and Hannah Willard (1674-1749), and he was the fifth of ten children: Janna, Josiah, Jehiel, Hannah, Return, Hester, Silence and Submit (twin … Continue reading → More About: Baby , Story 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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