The Baby Name Wizard

The Baby Name Wizard blog is moving! Starting in May, this column will have a new home at:http://www.babynamewizard.com/blogRSS feed:http://feeds.babynamewizard.com/bnwblog/bnw.xmlTransfers can be ...

I recently stumbled on a website with a large set of baby names classified as either "legitimate" or "illegitimate.""Legitimate" names were verified by the site creators as real names with known or...

Today's guest namer is my six-year-old daughter, who spent a recent morning hard at work planning a fantasy novel about "centrises." A centris, she explained, is half woman and half pegasus. When I...

You've made your guesses of the hottest and coldest names in America in the Baby Name Pool. Now it's time to learn from your collective wisdom. When dozens of name lovers pick the same name as a be...

Go on, take the plunge. Think of it this way...you don't even have to admit that you entered unless you win!BabyNamePool.com

I've been talking with a team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania who are interested in people's attitudes toward different names. They have a new survey they're running online that's ...

First, the plug: Have you entered your predictions in the Baby Name Pool? If not, here's why you should bother. Remember that time you joined in an Academy Awards prediction pool with your friends,...

Real baby names are my stock in trade, but I'm also fascinated by the names we don't give our children...but think we do. Those include urban legend names as well as false names that sneak into "of...

Thank you, thank you to everyone who took the time to offer suggestions for the 2nd edition of The Baby Name Wizard! When I wrote the original book I was inventing the format as I went along, tryin...

I'm currently up to my elbows in edits for the second edition of The Baby Name Wizard. I'm reviewing every single entry, updating, expanding, and adding names. Many names have shifted in style and ...