Showing posts with label Names. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Names. Show all posts

Baby Names and the Value on Distinctiveness

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March 15, 2022 Posted by Jay Livingston Namerology, the former Baby Name Voyager ( here ),is a great resource for anyone interested in graph...

Sarah Loves Biden, So Does Barbara

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November 2, 2020 Posted by Jay Livingston The Times ran a quiz ( here ) where you have to guess people’s voting preferences knowing only th...

Smart Names — Test Scores and Social Class

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August 19, 2020 Posted by Jay Livingston “You’re still crushing it on the bac ,” I told my friend Adele [not her real name]. “What?” ...

No More Nigels

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October 21, 2019 Posted by Jay Livingston Calvin Trillin once proposed that Americans and the English have a name exchange. English peopl...
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Jordan, Ryan . . The Boys at the Back of the Bac

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July 26, 2019 Posted by Jay Livingston The birth mother in the novel I’m reading ( The Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore) has named her...

Where’s Charlie?

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June 13, 2019 Posted by Jay Livingston The trend in how we address one another is towards informality. But it also seems that there’s a c...

I’ve Just Met a Face

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January 3, 2019 Posted by Jay Livingston Each month, the Harvard Business Review has a feature called “Defend Your Research.” I confess, ...

Camille — a Name That’s Bucking the Trend (in France)

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July 19, 2018 Posted by Jay Livingston Harper, Avery, Aubrey, Riley, Addison were among the most popular fifty names for girls last year....
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Names 2017: Boys and Girls Together

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May 15, 2018 Posted by Jay Livingston Boys names can become girls names, rarely the reverse. But that is true only of individual names....
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Joan — An Old Name For a Young Pelvis

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November 30, 2017 Posted by Jay Livingston What to name a mechanical vagina? It’s not a question most of us have to deal with on a daily ...

Flashback Friday — Plus Ça Change

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July 7, 2017 Posted by Jay Livingston  A new cohort of French 18-year olds took the baccalauréat last month, but the names at the top an...

A Boy Named Sue Ashley

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August 12, 2016 Posted by Jay Livingston “Has anyone here ever seen the movie ‘Gone With the Wind’?” I ask my class during a discussion o...
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Jacques and Diane

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July 8, 2016 Posted by Jay Livingston A little data ’bout Jacques and Diane Two French kids taking the college entrance exam. Over in Fra...
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Names Ending in N

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January 3, 2015 Posted by Jay Livingston A post at FiveThirtyEight ( here ), by Nate Silver and Allison McCann, has the title, “How to Te...

Names – The Last Shall Be First

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October 16, 2014 Posted by Jay Livingston What to name the baby has become more and more of a problem. A few generations ago, you could g...

When Thiago Met Daleyza

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September 16, 2014 Posted by Jay Livingston Fashions in names are like fashions in clothes in at least one respect – they change more qui...
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The Daughter Also Rises

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October 4, 2013 Posted by Jay Livingston I still recall a Times wedding announcement from a few decades ago. The bride’s given name was S...

False Messiahs -- 1400 of Them

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August 12, 2013 Posted by Jay Livingston Does a baby have to earn its name? A judge in Tennessee has changed a baby’s name. The parents...
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Hudson on Hudson

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May 30, 2013 Posted by Jay Livingston Maybe geographical names are like t-shirts.  The farther away the place, the more attractive the sh...
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