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Baby Name Index | The Well-Informed Namer
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A site devoted to helping you choose the right name. Looking for a particular name but don’t know what to put in the search function? You may find it here! Girls’ names are magenta. And boys’ names blue. Follow me on Facebook! Follow me on Facebook! Follow Blog via Email. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Join 172 other followers. Below the Top 1000, Part 31 (Girls). Below the Top 1000, Part 30 (Boys). Words from Names: A Vocabulary. Create a fr...
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Below the Top 1000, Part 27 (Girls) | The Well-Informed Namer
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A site devoted to helping you choose the right name. Below the Top 1000, Part 27 (Girls). December 5, 2016. Before I get into my usual list of rare names, I wanted to mention a couple of interesting sightings from this past week. The first one was from a local obituary – a woman who had the middle name LaTisha. Isn’t an uncommon name, but this lady was born in 1950! Either she changed her name at some point or her parents were avant garde; Latisha. The other great sighting from this week was Anselm.
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Many Bellas | The Well-Informed Namer
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A site devoted to helping you choose the right name. June 20, 2016. June 20, 2016. This isn’t a. Related post like you probably think it is. This isn’t even strictly about the name Bella. Rather, this is a post about names (many of them unusual) that include the element “bella.” All bolded names were given to actual American babies in 2015. The majority of this data comes from the Social Security Administration. Which publishes the most popular American baby names plus extended data every year. 8211; A g...
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Alistair and Co. | The Well-Informed Namer
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A site devoted to helping you choose the right name. November 28, 2016. I’ve noticed two primary and near-universal signs that a name is about to be popular: a) meteoric rise in usage and b) a plethora of alternative spellings appearing. It also matters how far the name is from the very bottom of the popularity pool. An alternative spelling of Alasdair. A Scottish Gaelic form of Alexander. 8 in the U.S.). Alasdair. Was given to 36 boys last year, up from 29 in 2014. After Alistair. 84 boys) and Alastair.
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“Rank of the Name Bellatrix in Nigeria” | The Well-Informed Namer
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A site devoted to helping you choose the right name. 8220;Rank of the Name Bellatrix in Nigeria”. November 20, 2016. A particularly intriguing search term popped up yesterday in my site’s analytics – “Rank of the Name Bellatrix in Nigeria.” Since I blog mostly about rare names, I expect most people will probably discover my site in the quest for an unusual moniker. Still, I was surprised to see this. My email is listed on my contact page. First, some information on the name:. 8230;the answer is “im...
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Analysis: The ABC’s of #1 Names (A-M) | The Well-Informed Namer
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A site devoted to helping you choose the right name. Analysis: The ABC’s of #1 Names (A-M). December 30, 2016. Hello there, and happy (belated) holidays! Recently, I put together a list of every #1 name per letter of the alphabet since 1880, which you can read here. Below you’ll read the first part of my analysis, for the letters A-M. The top ‘A’ name for women changes frequently, and I feel that whatever the top name is tends to be a sign of the times, or at least the trends. Ava. Who reigned supreme fr...
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Below the top 1000, Part 25 (Girls) | The Well-Informed Namer
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A site devoted to helping you choose the right name. Below the top 1000, Part 25 (Girls). November 7, 2016. This week’s batch of rare names is rather large, and since this is only a selection of. That 78.81% of males born in 2015 were accorded names in the top 1000; only 67.90% of females born last year were also given top 1000 names. And if any of you are participating in NaNoWriMo need character names, I hope this can be a resource to you. 🙂. Thoughts on these names? Below the Top 1000, Part 24 (Boys).
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The ABC’s of #1 Names, 1880-2015 | The Well-Informed Namer
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A site devoted to helping you choose the right name. The ABC’s of #1 Names, 1880-2015. December 16, 2016. December 30, 2016. Have you ever wondered what the most popular name was for each letter of the alphabet? Two years ago I began a mini-project to find that out for every year since 1880, the first year for which the Social Security Administration. Was the number one ‘F’ name or how many times the letter ‘I’ changed hands between Isaac. Since the late 19th-century. 1930-1941, 1944), Ann. 1925-1953, 19...
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Below the Top 1000, Part 20 (Boys) | The Well-Informed Namer
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A site devoted to helping you choose the right name. Below the Top 1000, Part 20 (Boys). September 23, 2016. October 3, 2016. Announcement: my article about names in Netflix’s. Is being featured on Nameberry. Go check it out if you haven’t already read it. 🙂. Anyway, it’s time for my weekly post of rare names! Some of the previous posts in this series:. Below the Top 1000, Part 15 (Girls). Below the Top 1000, Part 16 (Boys). Below the Top 1000, Part 17 (Girls). Below the Top 1000, Part 18 (Boys). Follow...
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Below the Top 1000, Part 26 (Boys) | The Well-Informed Namer
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A site devoted to helping you choose the right name. Below the Top 1000, Part 26 (Boys). November 16, 2016. November 16, 2016. This week, I’ve selected some of the names given to only 18 or 19 baby boys in 2015. My source is the Social Security Administration. Which publishes America’s most popular baby names every year and also an extended list. This extended set includes every name bestowed at least 5 times in that year, with very few exceptions. Anyway, enjoy the names! Let me know in the comments!
