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January 24, 2020 5:31 PM
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From the Colorado State Yearbook, 1945. Three-term Colorado state representative Cora Ransom Strain received passing mention i
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November 13, 2019 11:30 AM
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Mastercard customers won't have to change their legal names when they apply for the cards
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September 11, 2019 6:12 AM
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Looking for boyish nicknames for classic girl names? From the obvious Alex for Alexandra to the unexpected Finn for Josephine, here's your list!
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September 11, 2019 5:14 AM
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Courtney's three-year-old came home from daycare with a Father's Day present addressed to his wife Rhyse instead.
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August 7, 2019 11:13 AM
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I needed something that would carry me to the other side of my transition.
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May 16, 2019 6:50 PM
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Dr. Cleveland Evans writes about names for the Omaha World-Herald. In his April 23rd column, he looks at the history of the name Shirley.
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April 10, 2019 3:50 AM
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These names will stand out in a crowd and make a little girl incredibly unique.
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April 3, 2019 7:24 AM
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We'd struggle to pick a favourite.
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January 9, 2019 6:02 AM
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The Appellation Mountain weekly name newsletter is back! Read all about Zazie, Baudelaire-inspired baby names, and this week's all-new Q: can we use this boy's name for our daughter's middle?
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October 5, 2018 3:05 PM
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Legendary actor Orson Welles was married three times and had one daughter per marriage. The last two daughters had conventional names (Rebecca and Beatrice), but the first had an unexpected name: C…
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September 16, 2018 5:57 PM
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It’s a long-standing pattern—one that has feminized Ashley, Shirley, and Shannon.
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May 19, 2018 4:59 PM
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Did you know that author Anne Rice was born “Howard Allen O’Brien”? The vampire novelist (and creator of Lestat) was born in New Orleans in 1941 to Howard and Katherine O’Br…
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April 4, 2018 6:28 AM
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Brazilian transgenders and transvestites don't have to use the formal names on their identification cards to vote in October's general election, relying instead on social names they have chosen for themselves.
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January 23, 2020 5:22 PM
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We’ve identified one hundred rare vintage girls' names—all outside the current US Top 1000—with potential for a 2020 (or beyond) baby.
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October 8, 2019 5:28 PM
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The new parents were certainly grateful for Pounds’ help, and even honored the deputy by naming their daughter Leila Robert Jean-Louis.
“It was only right. It was only fair,” Jean-Louis said, according to the Today. “He was there, and he did what I wasn’t able to do.”
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September 11, 2019 5:31 AM
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This list gives parents the best of both worlds; girly first name with the option of a more tomboy name.
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August 14, 2019 10:15 AM
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“Cyrus” was the name on my fluorescent-green hospital bracelet, but Grace was right under the surface. Vulnerable, wrapped up tight.
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July 5, 2019 6:22 AM
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From the Raleigh Daily Tribune, March 7, 1897. Hailing from Harnett County in North Carolina, Lillias Burdette Chapin is one in
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May 1, 2019 10:27 AM
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The problem is that it is much more common as a girl's name: Isabeau.
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April 4, 2019 3:28 AM
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Interestingly, some boy names actually seem to fit a girl better. It's time to turn everything on its head.
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January 17, 2019 10:49 AM
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Portrait from Pacific Municipalities, 1910. Featured on this site's Facebook page in September 2017, Beverly Lacy Hodghead is on
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November 20, 2018 6:43 PM
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The other pairing that is a contender is Edwin Lucinda.
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September 25, 2018 4:05 PM
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From Lincoln and August to Ezra and Jude.
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September 16, 2018 5:21 PM
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First up, the names (from 2017's Top 1500) that have changed most strongly from masculine to feminine:
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April 24, 2018 4:23 AM
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Portrait from the Official Manual of the State of Missouri, 1934. One of a bevy of oddly named men elected to the Missouri Hous
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