Name Nerds Blog

 Recently I found a dataset (and you know how much I LOVE datasets!) from the UK Office of Statistics that details the top 100 baby names i...

 Happy Presidents' Day!  Presidential names have always been popular in the USA. According to the Social Security Name Database , In 202...

 Not every name has staying power. You probably know very few toddlers named Eustace or Irwin today, but there are still a few getting named...

 In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it was much more common to give children names that sound more like nicknames to us today. Many ...

In previous eras, girls' names ending in -ie were not unusual. Currently, and throughout the second half of the 20th century, it was mor...

 Are you looking for a name that is rare, but not unheard of? These are names that have gone extinct. That is, these names haven't appea...

 Do you want a name for your baby that has gone completely extinct? How about Myrtis? The youngest Myrtises are going to be 39 this year, an...