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Georgios Karamanis plotted the ratio of girls-to-boys over time for all the names in the Social Security Administration dataset. You can see the more gender-specific names at the edges and more gen… 
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Afghan women are often forced to keep their name secret, even from doctors. But some are fighting back.
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Joy was my nana’s name and I said that whether we had a boy or a girl, I would really like the middle name to be Joy as she meant such a lot to me. We weren’t sold on Rudy until about a week before I had him, but it’s been on my boys’ list for a while and was definitely around when I had Gene. All the girls’ names I really like, my husband didn’t! If he’d been a girl he probably would have been Robyn Joy.
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A group of laboratories and scientific journals is trying to simplify the process of attaching authors’ new names to their previously published papers.
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In the past, cute diminutives like Frankie and Billie have been popular for both girls and boys. Not this time.
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As described in an article in The Wall Street Journal, a recent study titled “Is Nestlé a Lady? The Feminine Brand Name Advantage” in the Journal of Marketing finds “feminine-sounding brands may be more appealing, because they are often perceived as warmer and thereby associated with traits like trustworthiness, sincerity, friendliness, tolerance and good nature.”
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Woah, that’s a big title! But I couldn’t condense it much more than that. As I’m sure you’ve already assumed from taking a peek at that title, today we’re talking about my opinions on names that sound the same, but belong to different genders (traditionally) and have different spellings. If your head’s still spinning, the most popular example of this phenomenon is Aaron and Erin, which may help anybody who’s tripping over my admittedly confusing wording. Anyway, I’m going to give my opinions on
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In a historic shift, fashion trends now dominate boys' names as much as girls'. Why? What does it tell us about fashion, gender and our culture?
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The Brady Bunch? In. Dave and Jen? Out. Oh, and women? Yeah, they're still out too.
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From an Uproxx article about DRAM’s most recent EP: Virginian rap crooner DRAM returned last night with the release of his new, three-song EP, That’s A Girl’s Name. Produced and co-written by…
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Take a look at this list of 100 non-binary baby names if you need inspiration for a gender fluid, neutral moniker.
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Queen Anne British nobleman John Poulett, 1st Earl Poulett, and his wife Bridget had eight children in the early 1700s: Bridget (born in 1702)Catherine (b. 1706)John (b. 1708)Peregrine (b. 1708)Ver…
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I trashed my Amazon book recommendations in the pursuit of name science. Again.
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A group of laboratories and scientific journals is trying to simplify the process of attaching authors’ new names to their previously published papers.
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X isn't just a hot letter for baby names, it's a creative force. Just ask any Xoe, Braxx or Xzekiel
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Since 2018, NamSor has been used append gender to authors in RePEC (Research Papers in Economics). Overall, 25.8% of economists are female.
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Are the girls stealing all the boy names?!? Will there be any good names left for the boys?!? *insert angry emoji face
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Boy names on girls can be controversial. And stylish, too. How should we think about BNOGs ... and should we use them for our daughters?
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America has a brand-new name style: phrase names. MyLove, meet SirPrince.
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