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Breaking News: Amelia and Harry the new top UK baby names
Jan 10, 2025
  The figures for the most popular names in the UK in 2011 have just been released by the Office for National Statistics, containing plenty of surprises and interesting tidbits.  For one thing, it seems that despite a lot of cross-pollination, there is still a considerable divide in name popularity across...
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,...
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...
Popular baby names: The case for the common name
Jan 10, 2025
  Today’s guest blogger Kristen, aka Swistle, confronts the question of popular baby names–and explains why it’s okay to use them.   More common than the name is this naming concern heard from parents: “We don’t want her to be one of five  in every class.”   We know they don’t need to worry about...
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