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Parents seeking baby boy names that start with “Z” have plenty of options beyond Zachary. “‘Zachary was ultra-rare until the second half of the 20th century — like until the 1950s it was ...
Many of the top names on the SSA's list of names that increased in popularity fit this bill, including Izael (which moved up 860 places in rank between this year and last year, making it the ...
This is a set of lists of English personal and place names having spellings that are counterintuitive to their pronunciation because the spelling does not accord with conventional pronunciation associations. Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages.
If you're researching baby names, check out our list of 1990s baby names that still feel relevant. We looked at the data to find out which names were most popular in the 1990s.
This category is for masculine given names from England (natively, or by historical modification of Biblical, etc., names). See also Category:English-language masculine given names , for all those commonly used in the modern English language , regardless of origin.
In German, Kevinismus ("Kevinism") is the negative preconception German people have of Germans with trendy, exotic-sounding first names considered to be an indicator of a low social class. [1] The prototypical example is Kevin , which like most such names came to Germany from Hiberno-American culture.
Anatidaephobia – the fictional fear that one is being watched by a duck. The word comes from the name of the family Anatidae, and was used in Gary Larson's The Far Side. [50] Anoraknophobia – a portmanteau of "anorak" and "arachnophobia". It was used in the Wallace and Gromit comic book Anoraknophobia. Also the title of an album by Marillion.
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