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The Nameberry 9: There’s more than one Number 1
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  This week, Appellation Mountain ‘s Abby Sandel travels around the country and across the pond to discover which  names ranked Number 1 where.   Baby name news is fast and furious at year’s end.  Lists of Worst and Best Celebrity Baby Names abound.  (Did anyone else notice that Zuzu Audrey, daughter of Top...
Name Popularity: The Nameberry 9–Ezra, Etta and June
Jan 10, 2025
  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,...
TV Names: Happy Soap Opera Day!
Jan 10, 2025
  Today is officially Soap Opera Day (woo hoo!) and though this isn’t as big of a deal in the baby name world as it once was, with a lot fewer sudsers on TV than there were when soap operas were the main staple of daytime programming, we have to acknowledge...
The 50-Year Rule: 1962 names revisited
Jan 10, 2025
  Conventional wisdom holds that baby names tend to follow the Hundred-Year-Rule, cycling back after a century has passed. But with everything speeding up exponentially in modern life, and with the great interest in all things mid-century, we’re thinking maybe we should change that to the Fifty-Year-Rule.   Which prompts us to...
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