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A study that attempts to explain why baby name popularity waxes and wanes would seem on the surface to be common sense: once a name becomes popular, no one wants it anymore.
It would explain, then, why names go out of fashion. But how do they become the hot ticket to begin with if we’re all so trendy shy? Continue reading »
There are names and there are names. And this one is a doozy.
A man described as an “Islamist” who’s been watched closely by intelligence agencies for years has gained permission from the German courts to name his son “Jihad” – or more precisely, Djehad, another form of the Arabic word for “struggle.” Continue reading »
Another out-of-work pregnant woman, another auction on eBay in the hopes that some mega corporation would love to see little Pepsi-Cola Wal-Mart Drummond running around Arkansas.
Do I feel sorry for his desperate mother? I’m trying.
Oh, I’m trying. Continue reading »
Note to self – keep my kid away from Alec, Ernest, and Ivan. They’re all trouble makers…or that’s what a new study would lead one to believe.
A recent study has apparently found that boys who were given ‘unpopular, uncommon or feminine’ names are at a higher risk for being ‘bad’ and are more likely to spend time in the slammer. The top ten bad boy names are: Continue reading »
There was a list of names I couldn’t use for my daughter – not because they were bad, per se, but they’d been used. Once a four-legged member of the family has a name, I’m sorry, but it’s been used up.
Indiana Jones we are not. But half of Americans in a recent poll confessed to giving their pets “human” names. Continue reading »
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