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Namestorm #5 – Baby Names for Aviation Enthusiasts

4 Comments | 1 March 2010
Love to fly the friendly skies? Then this list may be for you. Here are some names from early 20th-century aviation history: Wilbur and Orville American brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright built and flew the world’s first airplane in December of 1903. Louis French aviator Louis Blériot was the first to fly a plane across the English Channel (from [...]
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Namestorm #4 – Baby Names for Beer Lovers

Leave a comment | 22 February 2010
Miller Lyte gives me bitter beer face. It’s just a terrible baby name. After I discovered that one, I wondered: is it even possible to come up with tasteful beer-inspired baby names? Luckily, it is. Mary American brewster Mary Lisle, the first known brewster in the United States, started operating her late father’s brewhouse in Philadelphia in [...]
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Most Popular Baby Names in England and Wales, 1837-2005

Leave a comment | 17 February 2010
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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Namestorm #3 – Baby Names for Photography Lovers

4 Comments | 15 February 2010
This week’s namestorm isn’t about something you eat or something you wear, but something you do. Joseph French inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce created the first permanent photograph in 1826. The plate is currently located in Austin, Texas. Louis French painter and chemist Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, inventor of the daguerreotype process, took the first photograph of a human in [...]
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Namestorm #1 – Baby Names for Chocolate Lovers

3 Comments | 1 February 2010
I think that baby names that come from sources you love — your family, your values, your interests — are some of the best names going. So I thought I’d write some posts that focus on drawing usable, meaningful baby names out of interests, hobbies, pastimes and other activities that many of us have in [...]
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Names Do Not Make Good Passwords

1 Comment | 21 January 2010
If you use Facebook or MySpace, it’s time to change your password. RockYou, a company that creates applications for social networking sites, was hacked last month. Over 32 million passwords were stolen and made public. Those 32 million passwords have since been analyzed, and a list of the top 100 has been compiled. Nearly a [...]
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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 – Friedrich Augustus [...]
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