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Pairing Up the Most Unpopular Names of the Past: Orange & Leafy
Dec 12, 2024
  By Arika Okrent   Arika Okrent is editor-at-large at [_TheWeek.com](http://theweek.com/article/index/251655/the-least-popular-american-baby-names-from-1880-to-1932) and a frequent contributor to Mental Floss. She is the author of In the Land of Invented Languages, a history of the attempt to build a better language. She holds a doctorate in linguistics and a first-level certification in Klingon. Thanks to Arika for permission to reprint this...
Celebs Embrace Popular Names: Jaxon, Maxim, and Evelyn
Dec 12, 2024
  By Abby Sandel, Appellation Mountain   Not only did we have a bumper crop of high profile birth announcements last week, but the Social Security Administration also released the eagerly anticipated 2013 baby name data.   Oh, the excitement!   Sure, the US isn’t the only country to share statistics – and we’re...
Names Hot in Hollywood…but nowhere else!
Dec 12, 2024
  By Linda Rosenkrantz   There are some names that we’ve become so accustomed to seeing on the covers of People et al, attached to the babes of Tinseltown, that we assume that their popularity has instantly spread beyond the confines of Malibu and Calabasas.  But it ain’t necessarily so.  There are...
Popularity Prediction Contest: Guess the new Top 10! And now see the winners!
Dec 12, 2024
  The official list of U.S. Most Popular Names of 2013 will be released by the Social Security Administration any day now, and so in advance of the announcement, which we’re all awaiting with baited breath, we’re asking you to predict which names will come out on top.   Will Jacob‘s 14-year reign...
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