Roses and Cellar Doors

It seems conventional wisdom--if you don't want your child to be 1 of 5 in a class, avoid a Top 10 name! Growing up in classrooms of mul...

Same deal as the girls--archaic professions, foreign names, place-names, and (most) obsolete words/slang removed. :) [and again, apologies i...

Okay, definitely not all  of them. But by comparing the full SSA list to a dictionary text-file, I was able pull out all the word-names used...

Last time, I took a look at the differences between the British & American popularity lists, focusing on names that are much more common...

The British ONS released their name data a few months back (woo-hoo! more numbers!). Top 100 is here , and you can download their full lists...

Oh, my goodness! So many more boys' names from the Top 1000 than girls'! A lot of the boys' names past about 750 or so seem ra...

It seemz lyke everywhere u turn--kreatyv spellings! Obviously, they're not for everyone, but those who prefer the usual spellings have d...

Time for another round-up! Here are some of the gems somehow at the bottom of the SSA list--only given to 5 kids last year. Boys: Alexiu...

As always, unisex names continue to fascinate me. Soooo......yeah, you know what's coming--a numerical analysis of unisex names. So, I c...

Which names are rising is undoubtedly more fun, but which names are on the decrease can be quite telling, too. And of course, parents of kid...

Change in rankings is one way to gauge change in popularity, and it definitely has its advantages--easy to quantify & easy to understand...

Alright, so back in September I took a chance & made some predictions, based on a change in number of alternate spellings . Time to see ...

And it's time for the boys. First up, the names gathering momentum in the depths of the baby-name world--the highest jumpers from #2500 ...

Ah, it's that magical time of year again--where I get even more sleep-deprived than usual, and my husband cannot get a turn on the compu...

Or not...? The 2012 SSA data is out, and of course, I go for the easy stats first. ;) So, as a teaser for the analysis coming later in the ...