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The Nameberry Awards Go To…..
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  We wish we’d thought of the Nameberry Awards.   But the entertaining and illuminating awards given by popular vote to the best names in a range of categories was the brainchild of Genevieve, over on the Nameberry forums.   How it worked: Berries nominated names in each category.  Then the entries were...
Swedish Baby Names: What’s stylish in Stockholm?
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This Week’s Newsiest Names: From John to Kash to Kroy
Dec 27, 2024
  This week, Appellation Mountain‘s Abby Sandel investigates some of the factors affecting the shifts in names’ popularity.   Last week we wanted to write about babies named Mitt Romney and Sandy, and as it happened, the world gave us both.  Name nerds and regular folk alike respond to the idea that...
Name Popularity: The Nameberry 9–Ezra, Etta and June
Dec 27, 2024
  This week, Appellation Mountain‘s Abby Sandel considers the impact of baby name popularity–does it sway our choices more than it should?   Lately I’m wondering: is all this talk about baby names changing the names we use?   A century ago, parents could draw inspiration from the newspaper, the Bible, literature, music,...
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