Boys and girls in the German-speaking world born at the end of the 1990s bear first names that are very different from earlier generations or children born even a decade earlier. Popular German names of the past (Hans, Jürgen, Edeltraut, Ursula) have given way to more "international" name...
This web site contains U.S. demographic information. It includes lists of the most common first names and last names, the popularity of first names by state and for given years, and statistics on ethnicity in the United States. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division, Population Anal...
While last week I mainly relied onRaber’s Almanacto find male first names, that approach wouldn’t work this week. Raber’s Almanac contains a listing of Amish church ministers, who are only males. So I searched a number of church directories for the female names you see below. ...
'Jesus,' 'John,' and 'Joseph' are all names of religious origin that still remain popular today. Why are some male first names so common? When looking at common first names for males, you will notice the top names are extremely common. Much more so than the top female names in the ...
This year there are five female recipients of a Nobel Prize, which sets a record for female winners throughout the Prize’s 114 year long history. Who are the winners? 1. Elinor Ostrom, 76, an American political scientist from Indiana University who made history by being the first woman to...
approximately 13,000 Acadians involved in the Dispersion, whether deported or [] Archie made global news as the surprise first name of the newborn royal baby, son of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex aka Harry and Meghan. Goldmann Origin: Ashkenazi Meaning: Gold. The surname Williams was ...
The phrase was first recorded in print in the early 1900s. Eric Partridge, in his Dictionary of Catchphrases, suggests that the term originated as a translation of a similar expression used by German actors: Hals- und Beinbruch (literally, "a broken neck and a broken leg.") The German ...
connecting to the genitive form of the father or mother’s name preceding it. Some examples of this naming convention include a Viking settler of Vinland in North America, namedGudrid Thorbjarnardóttir; author of “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo”,Stieg Larsson; and the first female prime ...
All AN cases were female. AN diagnosis was made via semistructured or structured interview, or population assessment strategy using Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)-IV criteria for AN. The amenorrhea criterion was not applied, as this has been shown not to be diagnostic...
The carbohydrate fraction of most mammalian milks contains a variety of oligosaccharides that encompass a range of structures and monosaccharide compositions. Human milk oligosaccharides have received considerable attention due to their biological roles