A reader named Tamela wrote to me yesterday. She has one son named Hudson and is expecting her second son in a couple of months. She’d like some name suggestions for baby boy #2.
Hudson comes from a surname, so the first place I’d look is other surnames. Here are a few ideas:
Archer
Baxter
Bennett
Blake
Carlisle
Carter
Everett
Fletcher
Marlow
Mitchell
Maxwell
Norris
Parker
Ramsey
Reeve
Ridley
Roscoe
Sawyer
Spencer
Tate
Tanner
Thatcher
Travis
Westley
(At first I [...]
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Civil registration began in England and Wales in 1837. Between 1837 and 2005, approximately 318,000,000 names were recorded. The most popular were:
Boys
Girls
John (2,090,961)
William (1,918,538)
Thomas (1,277,284)
James (1,195,922)
George (1,089,770)
Joseph (729,456)
Robert (585,341)
Arthur (501,581)
Charles (485,873)
David (470,377)
Elizabeth (1,167,650)
Mary (1,128,958)
Mary Ann (718,245)
Margaret (692,674)
Ann (610,010)
Jane (560,064)
Ellen (512,836)
Sarah (503,947)
Alice (491,250)
Annie (475,101)
Mary Ann makes things tricky, doesn’t it? Elizabeth took the top spot, but [...]
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So far, 43 men have served as president of the United States. How many of those 43 men were given a family name as a first and/or middle name?
The answer is 39 — over 90%.
The four presidents who don’t definitively have family names are:
George Washington, named after lawyer George Eskridge, who cared for Washington’s [...]
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A recent study found that the Irish Catholic names Bridget and Patrick were used much less often among second-generation Irish than among first-generation Irish in late 19th-century England and Wales.
English Protestant names like George and William, on the other hand, were used much more often by these second-generation Irish.
Why?
Researchers Malcolm Smith and Donald [...]
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A reader named Maisie is expecting her fourth child (gender unknown) and she’d like some help coming up with names. Her first three children are named Lorna, Zacharias (Zach) and Louis. Here are the names Maisie and her husband have been considering:
Anastasia
Caitlin
Catya
Eva-May
Lara
Lena
Marlena
Willa-May
Winefred
Alfred
Arthur
Freddie
Joshua
Laurence
Leo
Myro
An intriguing mix, isn’t it?
Even before reading the list, though, my very first thought [...]
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Baby Name Needed – Boy Name for Hudson’s Brother