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Question of the Week: How do you feel about sharing your name(s)?
Jan 26, 2025
  Today’s QOW was inspired by a comment from jgirl525.   This week it’s a two-parter:   a.  What’s your response when you meet someone who shares your own first name? Do you feel an instant kinship or do you feel more proprietary?  If it’s a popular name, do you immediately start comparing nicknames...
Popular baby names: The case for the common name
Jan 26, 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...
The Nameberry 9: What’s a normal name?
Jan 26, 2025
  In The Nameberry 9 blog this week, Appellation Mountain‘s Abby Sandel, addresseses the question of “What is a ‘normal name?”   The news was filled with so-called normal names this week.  But what defines a normal name?  Is it a Top Ten choice that plenty of people your age share?  Or...
Name Popularity: The Nameberry 9–Ezra, Etta and June
Jan 26, 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,...
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