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Happy Fall! The season kicked off with a gray, rainy day, courtesy of Tropical Storm Ophelia, enough to cancel a local arts festival we always enjoy. But a) we’ve had a string of absolutely glorious weather; b) we need the rain!; and c) is it crazy that I forgive the storm because it has such […]

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My little girl who loved scouts and soccer has turned into a teenager with a passion for something very different: music. She’s traded her middle school clarinet for drumsticks and has lately been begging to go to her first concert. The upside: it’s always fun to hear what’s on her eclectic, decades-spanning Spotify playlist. The […]

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Congrats to Coco Gauff on her US Open Victory! The question on my mind: will Coco rise in the name popularity rankings? Football and basketball stars frequently influence baby names. But both sports feel a little different. Fans follow those sports steadily, across an entire season. It’s easy to imagine a couple expecting a baby […]

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This story is just so, so frustrating! They’re new parents. His mom isn’t a native English speaker and, it just so happened, couldn’t quite say the name the couple chose for their daughter. Instead, she’s calling the daughter by a nickname in her native language. This feels like the best possible kind of compromise. But […]

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It’s still hot, hot, hot here. Maybe where you are, too? But summer is winding down. I’ve already seen a ton of first day of school photos on social. One of my kids starts on Monday. The other is off until after Labor Day, but we’re finally going to shop for school supplies next week. […]

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We’ve been lamenting the decline of traditional names forever. A recent edition of Nancy’s Name Quotes uncovered a complaint about “these modern names which mean nothing but a morbid craving for the romantic and unusual.” The names? Vernon, Cecil, Irving. The year? 1907. There’s no such thing as a normal name. But it’s very, very […]

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Did you use your favorite names from childhood? Or discover that they didn’t really fit your family when the time came? My answer is a little bit of both. Because some of the names we chose were on my list long before my met my husband. But there was an element of compromise and letting […]

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Something that often strikes me: names are free. Obviously. And there’s not really any way to have more of them. I mean, yes. You can give your kiddo three or seven or a dozen middle names. Even more. But that’s sort of just a curiosity, a wait-what kind of moment that will follow your kiddo […]

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I’ve been thinking a lot about how we know we’ve found The Name. IYKYK, right? But so often, parents are something like half certain. Maybe even 75%. Just a little short of absolutely, rock solid convinced that they have found their child’s name. What do you do in such circumstances? I submit that the antidote […]

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When it comes to names, maybe we apply the wrong tests. Forget whether you can imagine it on a CEO or neurosurgeon. Don’t even trouble yourself picturing it on campaign signs or in lights on a marquee. Because Swistle has just suggested the acid test. Imagine your tween or teen re-telling their name story to […]

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