Tag: names

  • Baby names from across the globe

    I was looking through this site and found several draft articles I wrote nearly a decade ago that I never published. This one was a list of links to official baby name data from governments around the globe. Most of the links were outdated, so I updated them. I also added a few countries. Of…

  • Name Templates

    Name Templates

    This is the second genealogy standards proposal I am submitting to the FHISO Call For Papers. This current document was started back in August after submitting my last proposal (Asynchronous Collaboration), but life intervened and I didn’t finish the last 10% of the document until today. The basic premise of this proposal is that names…

  • Popularity of girls names in the US

    Popularity of girls names in the US

    When putting together a dictionary of names, it is useful to know the origin of names, as well as their relative popularity. No book (in print anyways) can have an unlimited number of names, and thus popularity can be useful in determining whether or not a particular name should be included. One very useful resource…