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Culture Buzz What hath Twilight and Will Smith's genetic material wrought? BabyCenter released their annual list of the year's most popular tot titles. Here they are with photos of notable namesakes.
Celebrity Buzz Baby handle site Nameberry has released its annual list of names they predict will be affixed to the most birth certificates throughout the year. Virtually all of them are based on celebrities and other pop culture phenomena. Beware the impending Pippa Boom.
Culture Buzz Doubtless you are aware that IKEA Furniture tends to have Scandinavian (read: bizarre) names, so thanks to Geekosystem for doing the juxtaposition. (via geekosystem.com)
Culture Buzz Young Ben Yoho, soon to celebrate his second year on this planet, begins his nerd training by learning to say character names from the Harry Potter universe. Dork indoctrination, or “indorktrination.” (via ndenclave.tumblr.com)
Nicholas won't perform the same with any other name. Try it!
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Please don't name your child Fat Albert.
Ever wonder what the names of the countries mean? They made a mistake on my home country. It's 'Abode of Peace' not 'Adobe of Peace.'
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Once again, Adolph and Osama get the shaft.
Culture Buzz So it's Doppelganger Week on Facebook. It also looks like “Go to urbandictionary.com and find your name and post it” week. But we can do better. I hereby name this Sex Offender Criminal Name Week! Go to CriminalCheck.com, type your FIRST name where it says “Last Name(required),” and copy and paste the crime or charge of the FIRST entry for your name in the comments!
Celebrity Buzz The rules: 1.) Post a picture of yourself. 2.) Respond to that picture with as many images of famous people who share your first name as you can think of. Click on the replies below each image to see how everyone is doing — and help them out if they are missing someone good. Whoever has the most responses by the end of Monday wins! OK, go! Do it!!!
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Tech Buzz A site that maps the popularity and density of your last name. Enter your last name and you’ll get back a map and stats about where your last name is most prevalent. What, no Lambs in Africa or Russia? My people are in the U.K., it seems.
Culture Buzz Enter your name, and How Many of Me tells you how many people in the U.S. share it. So, only 198 Nick Douglases left for me to kill.
Culture Buzz Type in any name and NameVoyager graphs how popular it has been from 1880 to 2007. You can totally guess name popularity by decade. Sunshine only shows up in the 60’s and 70’s and Rihanna doesn’t even appear on the chart until 2006. I also learned that Anne is for really really old people. Thanks mom and dad.
Culture Buzz Barack Hussein Obama isn’t the only celebrity with a Muslim name. Sure, people have tried to make a big deal out of Obama’s middle name, but its hardly unique.
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