Does "Rumpelstiltskin" show up in the baby name list?
The Baby Name Wizard: NameVoyager
And yet again, the Internet tosses something up on our beaches that could never, ever have existed, before computers, except in people's imaginations: The Baby Name Voyager!
Type in one letter and: Watch! as the whole UNIVERSE of names filters itself for your edification and amusement. I gotta tell ya, taking something as boring and everyday as baby names and putting it into this visual, dynamic format? Awesome.
It might take something like this to prevent the travesties of the past from recurring. In my niece's class at school, ALL the girls are named Ashley, and ALL the boys are named Tyler! In the interests of not dooming ourselves to vanilla blandness and a fatal lack of imagination, we need to use more names. We need more Zulmas and Xiomaras and Galens and Garretts and Bobs.
No! Scratch that! NO MORE BOBS! We should pass a law against naming anyone Bob anymore. In fact, we should retroactively make existing Bobs change their names! Of course, considering the lack of imagination in their families that caused the Bobbing in the first place, they'd probably all just change to the same new name. We'd have eight million new Johns.
My half-hearted apologies to any Bob that reads this.
And yet again, the Internet tosses something up on our beaches that could never, ever have existed, before computers, except in people's imaginations: The Baby Name Voyager!
Type in one letter and: Watch! as the whole UNIVERSE of names filters itself for your edification and amusement. I gotta tell ya, taking something as boring and everyday as baby names and putting it into this visual, dynamic format? Awesome.
It might take something like this to prevent the travesties of the past from recurring. In my niece's class at school, ALL the girls are named Ashley, and ALL the boys are named Tyler! In the interests of not dooming ourselves to vanilla blandness and a fatal lack of imagination, we need to use more names. We need more Zulmas and Xiomaras and Galens and Garretts and Bobs.
No! Scratch that! NO MORE BOBS! We should pass a law against naming anyone Bob anymore. In fact, we should retroactively make existing Bobs change their names! Of course, considering the lack of imagination in their families that caused the Bobbing in the first place, they'd probably all just change to the same new name. We'd have eight million new Johns.
My half-hearted apologies to any Bob that reads this.
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