Why Your Baby’s Name Will Sound Like Everyone Else’s
(wired.com) - Emma was the most popular baby girl name of 2008, the Social Security Administration announced today, supplanting Emily, which had held the slot for the past 12 years.
Both names, though, reflect a much deeper and largely unnoticed naming trend, which has played out over decades. At the beginning of the More...
Balls and Bottoms give way to Wangs in name game
(news.yahoo.com) - The number of people in Britain with surnames like Cockshott, Balls, Death and Shufflebottom -- likely the source of schoolroom laughter -- has declined by up to 75 percent in the last century.
