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Baby Name Needed – What Do You Think of Phineas?

8 Comments | 7 April 2010
A reader named Virginia is expecting a baby in September. For a boy, she’d selected the name Phineas. She liked “that it was unusual without being bizarre,” and that it started with ph. But now she’s not so sure about the name: All was fine and dandy until I read an article about violence in [...]
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Baby Name Needed – Libertarian Boy Name for First Baby

7 Comments | 12 January 2010
Last week, a reader named Julie sent me a fascinating e-mail: My husband and I are trying to figure out what we want to name our first child. We have a girl’s name (Darby) but a boy would be a real problem. The name he really really wants is Hayek (after 18th century economist – [...]
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One-Hit Wonder Baby Names from the 1900s (’00-’09)

Leave a comment | 10 August 2007
The names below are one-hit wonder names that ranked among the 1,000 most popular U.S. baby names only once — sometime between 1900 and 1909 (inclusive). Girls 1900: Luvinia 1901: Dagny, Ethyle 1903: Augustina, Girtha 1904: Edris, Vernia 1905: Beadie, Ilda, Neola, Orma, Vela 1907: Clydie, Rosabelle, Theta 1908: Arnetta, Clementina, Launa 1909: Azalee, Macel [...]
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