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Namestorm #7 – Baby Names Inspired by Children’s Book Authors

3 Comments | 15 March 2010
Last week, Julie came up with a great namestorm idea: children’s book authors. Here are some to start us off. (To save space, I only listed one book per author.) Charles and Carlo French author Charles Perrault wrote Tales of Mother Goose (1697). Italian author Carlo Collodi, born Carlo Lorenzini, wrote The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883). Johann and Hans Swiss [...]
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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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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 Names Inspired by Clubs, Charities, Organizations

Leave a comment | 28 November 2009
What clubs are you a member of? What charities do you support? What organizations have helped you (or someone you love) become a better person? Perhaps the story behind one of these groups could inspire a meaningful baby name. Organization Founder(s) Alcoholics Anonymous William Wilson Robert Smith American Red Cross Clara Booth ASPCA Henry Bergh Heifer International Dan West Jane Addams Hull House Assoc. Jane Addams Ellen Starr Kiwanis Joseph [...]
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Fortune 1000 CEOs More Likely to Have Common Names

Leave a comment | 24 November 2009
The names John, Robert, James, Richard, Paul and Edward are overrepresented among Fortune 1000 CEOs. Psychologist Jean M. Twenge thinks that common names like these may help people succeed in life. Do you agree? Source: ‘Fortune’ 1000 CEOs popular names are also fairly common
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Parents Prefer Popular Names. Ho-hum.

Leave a comment | 13 October 2009
According to psychologists Todd Gureckis and Robert Goldstone, parents in the U.S. like baby names that are currently popular and baby names that are becoming popular. They claim that, while parents have long been drawn to names that are already topping the charts, this bias toward names that are merely on their way up is something [...]
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