It’s election day! While we wait for news about the next U.S. president, let’s talk about Stanley, the late mother of the current U.S. president. Stanley Ann Dunham was born in 1942 to …
…and then there were two: Hillary and Donald. A week after Donald Trump accepted his party’s nomination for president, Hillary accepted hers, the first woman to be nominated by a major political party in US history. Running up to the big day in November, we’ll be hearing a lot of these two names. So, what…
An analysis of over 115,000 names registered on BabyCenter so far in 2016 shows that both presidential hopefuls are on the rise — at least when it comes to baby names.
Americana baby names for boys come painted in the colors of red, white, and blue. They’re patriotic, but they’re subtle, too. Gone are the days when people named their sons George Washington Jones or Abraham Lincoln Smith. Today, Americana baby names for boys bring to mind a mix of rugged individualism and the American West of …
Today's post is Part 2 of yesterday's post - First Names of the First Ladies #1. Check out the first post if you haven't yet, and tune in for the third and final post tomorrow!
Baby naming experts say that the name Donald is too common for even a personality as large as Mr. Trump, 69, the likely Republican presidential nominee, to single-handedly sway its appeal. But the name Hillary has had a popularity arch that appears shaped by the Democratic presidential frontrunner, who is 68 years old.
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With their high national profiles, political figures can have an impact on baby names, however limited. This list of unexpected influencers ranges across time and place and positions.
Donald "Donald" Trump and Hillary "Hillary" Clinton. They're the first pair of formally, multisyllabically named candidates to go head-to-head since 1984, when Walter Mondale challenged Ronald Reagan.
“There’s a comfort factor,” said Smith, who also teaches poetry at EWU. “People seek a sense of predictability with a name.”
Based on those criteria, Clinton is one of the more pleasant sounding names of American presidents, ranking only slightly behind the all-time top: Reagan.
On to Part 3! Today's list includes current First Lady Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama, whose middle name comes from her grandmother. I haven't been able to find out what inspired her first name, other than its popularity - it was #23 the year she was born. That's like Zoey today!
names tend downward in the years after an American First Lady enters the public sphere, but they were going to trend downward anyway because of generational differences. In any event, their first names are no less interesting!
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