Naming Guides
Longer reads on where names come from, how naming traditions work, and how to make sense of the data behind them.
How Baby Name Popularity Is Actually Calculated
A plain-language guide to how name popularity rankings work, where the data comes from, and how to actually read a name's popularity chart.
8 min readA Guide to Irish Baby Names: Meanings, Origins & Traditions
Why Irish names sound the way they do, how Gaelic naming traditions work, and a full browsable list of Irish-origin names with meanings.
10 min readThe History of Numerology in Naming
Where name numerology actually comes from, how the Pythagorean number system works, and what each number is traditionally said to mean.
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