Baby Names

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Unusual Names: Why -- and Why Not -- To Name The Baby Wyclef

Pamela Redmond Satran | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living

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If you're considering giving your baby an unusual name, your biggest question may be: How will an unusual name affect my child for better and worse throughout his or her life?

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How Not To Name The Baby: Top Ten Baby-Naming Mistakes

Pamela Redmond Satran | Posted 06.18.2009 | Style

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Naming a baby Porsche or Chanel or, yes, Huffington may be taking the idea of branding far too far.

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On Naming Diversity, or Why We Never Asked if Mary Had Jumped the Shark

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 06.11.2009 | Living

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Individuality emerged as a project -- starting with naming -- of creating an identity for children.

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Barack Rising Fast On Baby Names List

Boston Globe | Foon Rhee | Posted 06.08.2009 | Living

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The Social Security Administration, which tracks the nation's most popular baby names, said today that "Barack" did set what is believed to be a recor...

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Most Popular Baby Names 2008: Emma Takes The Top Spot

AP | STEPHEN OHLEMACHER | Posted 06.08.2009 | Living

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WASHINGTON — Barack and Miley move up, but the classics still rule. Emma is the top baby name for girls, Jacob for boys. Emma's surge to the top...

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Baby Names: Ten Underrated Beauties

Pamela Redmond Satran | Posted 06.04.2009 | Style

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Sometimes, the answer is that a name was just too popular too recently for parents to appreciate its intrinsic wonderfulness: for example the lush biblical Deborah.

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2009 POPULAR BABY NAMES List

Babycenter | Posted 05.16.2009 | Living

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Here are the year's most popular baby names for girls and boys. These baby name lists base popularity rankings on a single spelling of a name (Sophia ...

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Britain's Most Unfortunate Baby Names

Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 03.28.2009 | Comedy

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Across the pond, the British are coming to terms with the fact that some of their citizens are jerks. A study from parenting group at TheBabyWebsite.c...

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Who Wants to be the Goose Anyways?! Why Being Single Doesn't Suck

Leeat Granek, PhD | Posted 03.08.2009 | Living

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Every single one of my friends is married or in a long-term relationship. Every. Single. One. I don't know how this happened. Most of us are not even thirty yet.

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Mars Merkaba: Craziest Celebrity Baby Name Ever?

Pamela Redmond Satran | Posted 03.06.2009 | Entertainment

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Just when we think we've heard it all, along comes a new celebrity baby name -- Twitty Milk, new daughter of singer Erykah Badu and rapper Jay Electronica -- to stump the masters.

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Morocco: Disappearing the Amazigh

Jillian York | Posted 02.23.2009 | World

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What is Moroccan identity? Is it Arab identity? The official language of Morocco certainly is Arabic, but it is estimated that 23 of Morocco's 30 million people speak one of three Amazigh dialects.

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10 Ways To Avoid Hipster Baby Names

The Daily Beast | Pamela Redmond Satran | Posted 11.14.2008 | Style

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Here's a style conundrum: How come hipster mommies and cool dads, who claim to have a horror of conformity and a thirst for quirky individualism, all ...

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Bad Baby Names And What They Do To Your Kid

New York Times | J. Marion Tierney | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

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Studies showed that children with odd names got worse grades and were less popular than other classmates in elementary school. In college they were mo...

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The Top 100 Baby Names Of 2007

Times Of London | Corinne Abrams | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

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It's been a good year for Jack, again. The name retained its top spot as the most popular boy's moniker for the thirteenth year running. According to ...

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Michael Is The Most Popular Baby Name (Or Is It Jayden?)

New York Times' City Room Blog | Jennifer 8 Lee | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

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The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene says the most popular name for boys last year was Michael, according to its 2006 baby name d...

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