Links
Interesting stuff. List always under construction.
Name-Related
Information and Statistics
- Atlas der Vornamen (Austrian German)
- Behind The Name
- Euskaltzaindia (Basque)
- Forebears
- Instituto Nacional de EstadÃstica (Spanish)
- Maybe It Is Daijirou
- Nederlandse Voornamenbank (Dutch)
- US Social Security Name Database
Advice, Analysis, and Trivia
- Namerology by Laura Wattenberg
- Appellation Mountain by Abby Sandel
- British Baby Names by Eleanor Nickerson
- Nancy's Baby Names by Nancy Man
- Swistle: Baby Names by Swistle
- The Strangest Names in American Political History by Andy Osterdahl
- Beliebte Vornamen by Knud Bielefeld
Blog Posts
- 155 plausible ways to spell Caitlin and all 143 spellings of Ariana in the US baby name statistics as of August 4, 2020 by Norah Burch
- Digging out from under the world's most massive list of Haitian names by Issendai
- Puritan virtue names according to Inferkit by Tumblr user headspace-hotel
Books
- Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature by Charles W. Bardsley
Research Papers
- "It's Wraylynn—With a W": Distinctive Mormon Naming Practices by Jennifer R. Mansfield
- "Multiple First Names in the Netherlands (1760—2014)" by Gerrit Bloothooft and David Onland
Articles
- "From Yahaira to Junot: Unraveling the History Behind 'Weird' Dominican Names" by Isabelia Herrera
- "Dime como te llamas y te dire..." by Mayra Garcia Cardentey (Spanish)
- "How Kevins Got a Bad Rap in France" by Lauren Collins
- "Don't Call Me 'Zhaodi'" by Fang Qian
- "Generation Connie" by Connie Wang
- "Meet Chaya Mushka, Again and Again" by Paul Berger
Wikipedia Pages
Sporcle Quizzes
- Abecedarian Top 300 Baby Girl Names 2022 and Baby Boy Names 2022 by Kyba
- Top 1000 Girls Names 2023 and Boys Names 2023 by Shinx
Other Topics
Books
- A Question of Heroes by Nick Joaquin
- Asimov's Guide to the Bible: The Old and New Testaments by Isaac Asimov
- Basques in the Philippines by Marciano R. de Borja
- Sugar and the Origins of Modern Philippine Society by John A. Larkin
- The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility by Gregory Clark
Research Papers
- A Study of the Socio-Economic Elite in Philippine Politics and Government, 1946—1963 by Dante C. Simbulan
- Contemporary Philippine Spanish: Comments on Vestigial Usage by John M. Lipski
- Persistence Through Revolutions by Alberto F. Alesina, Marlon Seror, David Y. Yang, Yang You, and Weihong Zeng
- The Intergenerational Effects of a Large Wealth Shock: White Southerners after the Civil War by Philipp Ager, Leah Boustan, and Katherine Eriksson
Essays
- "A Heritage of Smallness" by Nick Joaquin