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Why Are Dogs Getting Human Names?

Human names like Max, Molly, Charlie, and Lucy are being used more and more often for dogs. Stan Coren, a psychology professor at the University of British Columbia, thinks there are two reasons why: Dogs occupy a new place in our lives, and The number of female dog owners is on the rise. The first [...]
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Baby Name Needed – Boy Name for Adalaide’s Little Brother

A reader named Abby is expecting a baby boy at the end of the year, and she’d like some helping coming up with his name. She writes: His sister’s name is Adalaide Joy Foley* and we would like to use the middle name Bernard in honor of his grandfather who is no longer with us. [...]
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Unique Baby Names from Literature

The was originally the round-up post of a 31-post series on literature names for National Book Month. I’ve since condensed all of those individual posts into this one post. I picked many of these names because they were either popularized by literature or first used as given names in literature: Amanda Amanda is based on [...]
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