On Game of Thrones, Daenerys Targaryen is often ad...  ...e "Khaleesi." Like many Game of Thrones character names , Khaleesi is becoming a popular girls' name in th...  ...Betsy.You can see more charts of Game of Thrones baby names at Vox.If you're considering naming a child after...  ...o that character in the...

An interactive U.S. map by Brian Lee Yung Rowe tra...  ...g Rowe traces the geographic popularity of 29,000 names over the past century. That’s an awful lot...  ...awful lot of data to track!I entered my own given names and watched as they faded into obscurity over tim...

( Baby Chef - Layette Set now on sale at the NeatoShop)T...  ...Set now on sale at the NeatoShop)The most unusual baby name that I proposed was Svetlana. My wife vetoed...  ...nyway. A child should have perhaps an interesting baby name, but not a weird one. We live in an age in w...

The number of newborns given the name “Cheese” increased 450% during 2013. Now admittedly, there were not many Cheeses to begin with. There were only 9 Cheeses reported from a survey of 500,000 parents. For t...

(Photo: Pioneer Press: Chris Polydoroff)“Hap...  ..., “hippies.” They didn’t have a baby name planned for her because they believed that t...

Nathan Yau at Flowing Data crunched lot of number...  ...ojects that interested him was the regionality of baby -naming. We've seen a breakdown of the most popula...  ...aming. We've seen a breakdown of the most popular names through time by state (boys and girls), but most...  ...time by state (boys and girls)...

Reuben Fischer-Baum, who created the map of The Mo...  ...m, who created the map of The Most Popular Girls' Names , State by State, from 1960 to the Present, has hi...  ...sent, has his followup ready, this time for boys' names . Naming baby boys is a less trendy venture, and th...

It’s like those animated maps showing the ri...  ...state by state and year by year, the most popular baby names for girls from 1960 to last year. So far, none ha...

(Image: Charles West Cope)Looking for a good baby name? You could take the modern approach and deli...  ...Joseph Norwood of Slate compiled some of the best baby names from that culture:1. Humiliation. Humiliation Hyn...  ...born in Warbleton in Sussex, a fount of beautiful names...

Yeah, I definitely should have gone with Dragonhunter and Hellbender for my daughters.Compressed Flapwort? That's so terrible that I can see it becoming popular. Bird and Moon may have done more harm than good by publish...