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SUNDAY SUMMARY

Sharing all the baby name news from the week!

Every Sunday, the Summary rounds up the most newsworthy name-related stories, along with the occasional blast from the past. We'll examine trends and themes, surprising celebrity choices, and names in the headlines, too.

Sunday Summary: In Praise of Critical Ignoring

December 4, 2022 By appellationmountain 2 Comments

Sunday Summary 12.4.22

I need a cookie recipe. When I was younger, this involved flipping through my mom’s (single) baking-focused cookbook. Today, that same process could easily take hours. Longer! Google, Pinterest, Insta, searching through the archives of sites I love. And then there are more questions: can I get lemon pie filling/Butterfinger bits/almond extract at my usual […]

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Sunday Summary: Dunbar’s Number

November 27, 2022 By appellationmountain 1 Comment

Sunday Summary 11.27.22

A reader asked a fascinating question a while back. Yes, she agreed. Fewer children receive the most popular names. But we know SO many more people. Doesn’t that offset the decline in a name’s absolute popularity? My reply: not really. And that’s because of Dunbar’s Number. To follow her (excellent) argument: maybe back in the […]

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Sunday Summary: Confirmation Names

November 20, 2022 By appellationmountain 10 Comments

Sunday Summary 11.20.22

This is confirmation weekend in my church, and while there are many, many things I appreciate about this right of passage, I’d be lying if I said that names weren’t right up there. If you’re unfamiliar with the tradition, Confirmation – at least for Catholics – is the final sacrament of initiation. In some ways, […]

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Sunday Summary: The Story Matters

November 13, 2022 By appellationmountain Leave a Comment

Sunday Summary 11.13.22

I love a good Name Quotes round-up from Nancy. Reading the story about Amandla Sternberg’s name, I found myself thinking: The story matters. And how you TELL it matters, too. Amandla’s name looks like a creative twist on Amanda, but it’s not. It’s borrowed from an anti-apartheid rallying cry and means power. Reading her account, […]

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Sunday Summary: Boston Accents and Adele

November 6, 2022 By appellationmountain 2 Comments

Sunday Summary 11.6.22

Here’s something that we often don’t anticipate, but OH how it matters. ACCENTS. They’re all over the name news this week. First up, Adele surprised everyone when she announced that a fan said her name “perfectly.” It’s less uh DELL and more … uh DALE. Except there’s a little bit of a “w” quality to […]

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Sunday Summary: That Outlier Name

October 30, 2022 By appellationmountain 2 Comments

Sunday Summary 10.30.22

I’m a pretty heavy Ancestry.com user, though more for learning about names in the broadest sense than investigating my personal family tree. Still, I’ve discovered some fascinating tidbits about my family history over the years, often because the site itself notifies me when a new set of records includes information about my ancestors. A recent […]

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Sunday Summary: Steve’s Principle

October 23, 2022 By appellationmountain 6 Comments

Sunday Summary 10.23.22

I legally changed my name as an adult. It’s a long story, but here’s the punchline: some people still don’t use my new name. This includes people I love, and who love me right back. It wasn’t that they wouldn’t do it, not exactly. It was that they couldn’t quite wrap their heads around the […]

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Sunday Summary: Mum’s Age Matters … or Does It?

October 16, 2022 By appellationmountain 1 Comment

The most popular names data in England & Wales was recently released. It brings with it one of my favorite data sets of all-time: Most Popular Names by Mother’s Age. No comparable information is published for the United States. And yet, we all sort of know this. Younger parents tend to choose trendier names. More […]

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Sunday Summary: Dogs and Cats and Kids

October 9, 2022 By appellationmountain 1 Comment

Sunday Summary 10.9.22

We love our kids. And we love our pets. For many of us, pets serve as our starter children. Or sometimes, they complete our families. Either way, we often name our pets with the same level of focus we apply to our children. But there’s a big bonus with our dogs, cats, guinea pigs and […]

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Sunday Summary: Feel Free to Ignore Me

October 2, 2022 By appellationmountain Leave a Comment

Sunday Summary: 10.2.22

I’m an expert on names. It feels weird to write that, but … well, I am. While I learn new things every day – and make mistakes, of course – I know an awful lot about names. So do lots of amazing AM readers. But that does not actually mean that I (or any of […]

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