Archive for the 'Names' Category

Naming A.D.

March 14th, 2008

There’s an awful lot that’s been written over the years about what to name your kids, in the U.S. especially. A good recent example is from a book I mention frequently in here, Freakonomics. In it, the authors discovered that your kid’s name doesn’t correlate at all with how they do in life, and talk about what the most popular baby names were and where they come from. (For the record, my name, David, has always been popular. It’s nice to be popular in at least one thing in my life.)

Another good example was in the New York Times …