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Occupation names: A Labor Day celebration
Jul 7, 2025
  It’s Labor Day weekend, and so time once more to turn our attention to the original, pre-barbecue significance of the holiday and celebrate some hard-working occupational names.   We’re focusing on the more uncommon, fresher sounding examples, and those with less obvious meanings, so no Archer, Shepherd or Baker.  The er-ending...
A Boy Named Chelsea
Jul 7, 2025
  This guest blog by a guy named Chelsea lets us in on his gender-bender life experiences.   There’s nothing that unusual about being named after a place, except when that place name becomes one of the more popular names for girls during the 1990’s and you are a boy. That’s what happened to me. My...
NASCAR Baby Names: Racing Towards the Right Name
Jul 7, 2025
  This week, AppellationMountain‘s Abby Sandel finds baby-name inspiration racing around the Daytona International Speedway.   Did you see newcomer Trevor Bayne win the Daytona 500 last week?    Me neither.    NASCAR might seem like an unlikely place to look for baby name inspiration.  But if moms suggest ideas while dads exercise veto power,...
Animal Names: The Wild Kingdom
Jul 7, 2025
  This week, Appellation Mountain‘s Abby Sandel leads us into the jungle for some wild animal names.   Not so long ago, baby boys were named Jason and Kevin and Joshua, and a lynx was something we saw at the zoo on the kindergarten field trip.      Now a growing number of boys...
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