How popular is the baby name Sai in the United States right now? How popular was it historically? Find out using the graph below! Plus, check out all the blog posts that mention the name Sai.
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From the 2010 book Runaway Dream: Born to Run and Bruce Springsteen’s American Vision by Louis P. Masur:
Peter Knobler, a writer for Crawdaddy, got an early listen [to “Born to Run”] in Springsteen’s Long Branch house. The place was cluttered with motorcycle magazines and old 45s. Over Bruce’s bed, according to Knobler, was a poster of Peter Pan leading Wendy out the window. The detail is suggestive: “Wendy let me in, I wanna be your friend/I want to guard your dreams and visions.”
From an article called “Khmer Legends” in The Cambodia Daily:
[T]he municipality has recently erected a statue of the fabled Yeay Penh, the woman who is credited with giving Phnom Penh its landmark hill.
As the story goes, in the 1370s, Yeay Penh asked her neighbors to raise the mound in front of her home so as to build on top of it a sanctuary to house the four statues of Buddha she had found inside a floating tree trunk. That mound, or phnom, is credited with giving Phnom Penh its name.
[…]
“The problem is we have no proof,” said Ros Chantrabot, a Cambodian historian and vice president of the Royal Academy of Cambodia.
“In all likelihood she did exist or, at the very least, the tale is based on an actual person, since Penh’s hill, or Phnom Penh, is there for all to see,” he said.
[“Yeah Penh” is the equivalent of “Grandmother Penh.” The word yeay in Cambodian is a title used to refer to and/or address an older female.]
Tait says one might expect the saint names, pushed by the Catholic church during the Reformation, and English names, handed down to descendants of settlers, to overtake and eradicate the use of Gaelic names as it did in England (315). She found this was not the case. Irish natives and settlers each retained their own naming systems, preserving them both. In the 1660s, she finds the top 6 names used by native Irish families remained largely Gaelic– Patrick, Bryan, Hugh, Owen, Thorlogh, and Shane, while the top names used by the descendants of settlers remained largely English– John, Thomas, William, Robert, James, and Richard (316).
As a frequent consumer of Starbucks…the most contentious aspect for me when ordering coffee—until now, anyway—has been the perpetual misspelling of my name on the side of the cup. The mutations have been many, and they have often been egregious—“Zal,” “Sowl,” “Sagi,” “Shi”—and then once, incredibly, three years ago, at a branch in the financial district, “Saïd,” diaeresis added, prompting me to seek out the barista, whose hand I grasped with deep feeling but who, frankly, seemed perplexed that anyone would have difficulty spelling my name. He was Latino, I think, and he told me that he had a best friend named Saïd, spelled identically, which would explain his astuteness. Never mind the backstory, I was delighted by the outcome. I photographed the cup for posterity, and then, for good measure, tweeted it for the world to see.
Below are hundreds of baby names with a numerological value of 2.
What do I mean by that?
Well, in numerology, you substitute each letter in a word with that letter’s ordinal value in the alphabet. (The letter C has a value of 3, for instance, because it’s the third letter.) Then you add those ordinal values together to come up with a total. Lastly, you add the digits of that total together to obtain a numerological value.
Here’s an example: The letters in the name Dana have the values 4, 1, 14, and 1. Added together, these values equal 20. And the digits of 20 added together equal 2.
All of the “2” names below are sub-categorized by totals — just in case any of those larger numbers are significant to anyone. Within each group you’ll find some of the most popular “2” names per gender (according to the most recent set of U.S. baby name rankings).
2 via 11
The letters in the following baby names add up to 11, which reduces to two (1+1=2).
Girl names (2 via 11)
Boy names (2 via 11)
Adea, Fe, Aia
Aj, Ja, Cabe
2 via 20
The letters in the following baby names add up to 20, which reduces to two (2+0=2).
What does the number two mean in numerology? Unfortunately, there’s no clear answer. Various numerological systems exist, and each one has its own interpretation of the number two.
That said, if we look at a couple of modern numerology/astrology websites, we see 2 being described as “diplomatic,” “cooperative,” “peaceful,” “gentle,” and “understanding.”
Personally, I prefer to look at associations, which are a bit more concrete. Here are some things that are associated with the number 2:
Hands
Feet
Eyes
Ears
Lungs
Chopsticks
Knitting needles
Complementary pairings (e.g., pen and paper, bow and arrow, peanut butter and jelly)
Dualities (e.g., day and night, yin and yang, war and peace)
Boxing (2 competitors; 2 fists)
Partner dancing
DNA double helix
What does the number 2 mean to you? What are your strongest associations with the number?
(To see names with other numerological values, check out the posts for the numbers one, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, and nine.)
Looking for a set of baby names with something in common? If so, here are some 3-letter anagram names for you to check out!
Anagrams are words that contain the same set of letters, but not in the same sequence. For instance, the words “pot,” “opt,” and “top” are all anagrams of one another.
Anagram names can be a neat option for siblings — particularly multiples (like twins and triplets). They’re also a clever way to connect a baby name to the name of an older relative (e.g., grandpa Ole, grandson Leo).
Below are hundreds of three-letter names (collected from the SSA’s huge database of U.S. baby names) that happen to be anagrams of other names.
Three-letter anagram names
Ani, Ian, Ina, Nai, Nia
Eno, Eon, Neo, Noe, Oen
Ame, Ema, Mae, Mea
Ami, Iam, Mai, Mia
Amy, May, Mya, Yma
Ari, Ira, Rai, Ria
Ary, Ray, Rya, Yar
Azi, Iza, Zai, Zia
Ade, Dea, Eda
Adi, Dia, Ida
Aki, Kai, Kia
Ali, Ila, Lia
Alo, Loa, Ola
Ase, Esa, Sae
Ave, Eva, Vea
Avi, Iva, Via
Ean, Ena, Nea
Era, Rae, Rea
Eri, Ire, Rei
Ero, Reo, Roe
Ion, Nio, Oni
Isa, Sai, Sia
Ita, Tai, Tia
Kao, Koa, Oak
Nay, Nya, Yan
Ori, Rio, Roi
Abe, Bea
Abi, Bia
Aby, Bay
Aly, Lya
Anh, Han
Ann, Nan
Anu, Una
Aum, Uma
Avy, Yva
Bao, Oba
Cam, Mac
Caz, Zac
Dev, Ved
Dez, Zed
Dre, Red
Duy, Udy
Ela, Lea
Emi, Mei
Eve, Vee
Eze, Zee
Gem, Meg
Guy, Yug
Hal, Lah
Ike, Kei
Ivo, Ovi
Jai, Jia
Jak, Kaj
Jet, Tej
Jio, Joi
Kal, Kla
Kam, Mak
Kay, Kya
Kaz, Zak
Keo, Koe
Koy, Kyo
Lam, Mal
Lav, Val
Len, Nel
Leo, Ole
Lin, Nil
Lio, Oli
Lua, Ula
Lys, Sly
Mio, Omi
Miu, Umi
Naz, Zan
Niv, Vin
Noa, Ona
Nas, San
Ora, Roa
Oya, Yao
Rey, Rye
Roy, Ryo
Rui, Uri
Rut, Tru
Tae, Tea
Tao, Toa
Zae, Zea
Zay, Zya
Zeo, Zoe
Zio, Zoi
Ziv, Zvi
Which pairing/group do you like best? Let me know in the comments!
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