The Baby Name Wizard has a
book, a
blog, and a fascinating interactive presentation of America's name choices called
NameVoyager.
Start with a "sea" of nearly 5000 names. Type a letter, and you'll zoom in to focus on how that initial has been used over the past century. Then type a few more letters, or a name. Each stripe is a timeline of one name, its width reflecting the name's changing popularity. If a name intrigues you, click on its stripe for a closer look.
Check out the popularity of your name, or the names you picked for your kids.
And, if you are interested in exploring the etymology of some of those names, you might also take a look at this website:
Think! Baby Names.
Update: Posh & Becks have a new baby boy, named Cruz, which might be pronounced "Cruth" in Spanish, and could be a girl's name, like Penelope Cruz Sanchez. Anyway, here's another
entertaining article about celebrity baby names.
Posted by
abnu on Tuesday, February 15, 2005 @ 8:14 PM
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