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"The Social Security Administration has released the official rankings of the most popular baby names in America for 2012. The new top 10:"
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It's here! 
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This is the second post in a new series called "names worn by mythical creatures." The first post, on werewolves, can be found here: http://namingthefishes.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/names-worn-by-we...
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From Norbert to Aithusa, and more.
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Well done, e-onomastics! It hardly seems like any time since you passed the 10k mark.
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Young people have been wearing jeans since the 1950s, thanks to the influence of jeans-wearing movie stars like Marlon Brando, James Dean and Paul Newman.
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"Update: Emerson Grace, Chloe Marie, and Leighton Marie are happy to announce the birth of their little sister..."
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No V boy names grace the halls of the NZ top 100 2012, the same goes for Australia & England, In the USA none feature in the 2011, top 100- although Vincent misses at #101. Valentino- An Italia...
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I was excited to see Venn here, just after reading Kelli's Nameberry article about literary chatacters' surnames. Does anyone remember the lovely Diggory Venn from 'The Return of the Native'?
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Julia and Julian are solidly established, and August and May are mainstream. How would July wear on a child in 2013?
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"by Kelli Brady of NameFreak! Wentworth Miller, the actor from the former hit show Prison Break, has a very distinctive name. He is a third, after his father and grandfather"
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Interesting story about Wentworth - and there are some good literary surnames out there.
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HELLO, MY NAME IS: PRESLEY I like stripes, zombies, and my name is sorta like a dead guy’s, but as you can see, I’m all smiles! I was born on August 16th which is the day that that Elvis guy who...
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Hi, Presley!
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"This fine volume weighs in at a 532 pages of baby name wizardry. That's over 100 pages longer than the previous edition."
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An exciting new arrival. Confession time: I haven't seen either of the previous editions. But I'm treating myself to a non-second-hand name book for once, and have it on order.
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According to The Ladders, an online job-matching site, what a person's name is affects how much they will be paid. It turns out, the longer the name, the less money one is likely to make.
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Ook in april 2013 gaven Vlaamse ouders hun kinderen weer pareltjes van namen. Wat dacht je van Zsa-Zsa, Sourire 'D Ange, Sheldon, Emile Wolf voor een meisje of
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As usual, an interesting mixture of names that might not be considered unusual by English speakers (Hope, Brighton) or other cultures (Zsa Zsa, Heavenly), and those that really would (Fairylynn, Prince Wisdom?)
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I'm always intrigued about the popularity of names, from the less common Louisa (#525 in NSW) to the super popular Charlotte (#1 nationwide). It must be crazy but sometimes I feel that names like C...
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Some interesting number crunching, showing again that even the most popular names aren't all *that* popular.
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She's a constellation and a Middle Eastern queen, and a name that succeeds in Spanish and English. No wonder the international Soraya is catching on.
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The ten most popular boys’ names in 2010 accounted for only 10% of all boys’ names;. But back in the 1880s, the top-ten boys’ names accounted for 40% of all boys’ names—according to an artic...
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True story.
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Barb writes: My husband and I will have our 3rd and last baby with a planned c-section on tues, May 21. In the past, we have decided on the baby's name in recovery (partly because we did not find o...
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Abrya Rayne Nicole Alaya Mays Anastasia Rose Avalynn Helen Beckett Dakota Bexley Mae Bryar Wayne Channing Matthew Cleo Josephine Creighton Graham Dasch Quinn Thomas Easton Coy Eli Clair Emma-Jane K...
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And Symphonie Lee-Michelle, Zenedia Daniela, and more.
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If you are a fan of comedian Shaun Micallef you must be very happy (at least on Wednesdays), because he is in two TV shows on two different channels on the same night. On the ABC at 8 pm, he hosts ...
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What a difference a fada makes!
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From
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"The official list of U.S. Most Popular Names 2012 will be revealed later this week — Thursday afternoon or Friday morning, according to the Social Security press office — and so in advance of that announcement, we’re asking YOU to predict:"
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The data are nearly here - even I can feel the excitement 4000 miles away!
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"So this just happened at the San Francisco International Film Festival:"
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Ha ha - worth a try, though!
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What should Mrs Dork call her car? (I make no apologies for this being a bit off the usual topic!)
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From
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No son of Kasha Ralph will ever respond to “Michael,” “Robert” or “Steven.”
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Oh go on, let's have the full top 1000!