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June 26, 2019 1:59 PM
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“I hope my son will grow up to be a leader who is useful to many others,” she said on Friday as quoted by kompas.com.
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June 21, 2019 4:09 PM
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This week’s news includes name ideas from books and technology, babies named after hospitals, and baby name trends in Ireland and the Isle of Man.
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June 12, 2019 11:06 AM
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The tech industry seems to be destroying the popularity of human names.
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June 1, 2019 7:46 AM
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Amazon put us on a collision course. Not that we couldn’t see it coming—Apple’s Siri had sent early-warning signals years before. With Amazon’s “virtual assistant” Alexa, though, there was no escape. Human names and virtual names met head on, and the human names blinked. Alexa was America’s fastest-falling baby name …
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April 28, 2019 5:42 PM
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Believe it or not, there is some great name inspiration on that special keyboard.
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April 21, 2019 2:33 PM
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March 6, 2019 6:59 AM
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Besonders häufig war der Vorname Alexa in Deutschland noch nie. Im vorherigen Jahrtausend war der Name kaum gebräuchlich und seit der Jahrtausendwende wurden
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January 2, 2019 10:13 AM
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Google, Like, Vista and Iuma: Here's why parents name their kids after tech products.
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December 11, 2018 7:18 PM
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Back in the day, when it was time to name the baby, soon-to-be parents dug into their family history or cracked open a baby names book.Not anymore. Names are big business.N
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October 30, 2018 8:02 PM
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Since my due date is rapidly approaching and the baby’s name has remained unsettled, I convinced my husband to try Kinder with me.
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August 28, 2018 5:27 PM
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A new app is taking all the guesswork out of coming up with a baby name by simply generating one for parents at random. Per the name, it’s really just a Tinder for names.
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August 20, 2018 3:32 PM
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I swear the amount of junk email I get increases daily. Here are even more names from my spam folder.
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July 2, 2018 6:42 PM
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Looking at history, we can point to many female names that fell out of favor as soon as they became linked to lower class activities (e.g., servitude, prostitution). Examples include Abigail, Joan, Nan/Nanny, Jill, and Parnel.
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June 21, 2019 4:25 PM
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NASA headquarters in Washington, DC, now rests on Hidden Figures Way. The street was renamed in June 2019 in honor of Katherine Johnson, the late Dorothy Vaughan and the late Mary Jackson, three women who helped put astronaut John Glenn in orbit by calculating his flight trajectory by hand.
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June 19, 2019 12:36 PM
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Seven month-old Caroline won't actually respond to her own name
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June 6, 2019 3:56 AM
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Meine Smartphone-App Kevinometer sorgt auch Jahre nach der Veröffentlichung noch für Aufsehen, wobei sie allerdings nicht immer ernst genommen wird. So gab es
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May 6, 2019 6:44 PM
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Rami Malek, after winning the Oscar for Best Actor in early 2019 [vid]: I grew up in a world where I never thought I was gonna play the lead on Mr. Robot because I never saw anyone in a lead role t…
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April 24, 2019 9:47 AM
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It is only the 797th most popular girl’s name in the UK – yet a study shows it is used as a website login more often than any other forename
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April 21, 2019 5:42 AM
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Women in STEM-related fields have worked hard to earn the same recognition as men. These girl names are inspired by those smart, determined women.
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January 2, 2019 12:00 PM
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Now, we're beginning to see how technology has influenced baby name trends, from how we choose a name to the names we actually pick.
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December 25, 2018 5:24 PM
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NamSor v1 processed over four billion names for Gender Studies and Migration Research since 2014. NamSor v2 will be launched in January 2019.
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December 4, 2018 6:37 PM
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While Mauskopf knew she wanted her now 3-year-old daughter’s first name to be Bryn, her requirements for a middle name were that it started with “A” and that the Twitter handle was available.
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October 5, 2018 3:23 PM
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“Lisa repeatedly tried to get [Steve ]Jobs to tell her that the Lisa Macintosh computer was named after her but he refused to confirm it.”
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August 21, 2018 6:27 PM
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Millennial parents are picking baby names based on available domain names, a new study claims. The new trend emerged in a study examining how the internet is shaping approaches to parenting, and how thinking about a child’s online presence now starts while they are in the womb.
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July 9, 2018 6:42 PM
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The Kinder app works just like Tinder - except instead of swiping right on potential love interests, you're presented with baby names to say yay or nay to.
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