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...
were sharing some of the most common Old English last names to help you uncover your family history. Lee, Lewis, Long, Lumbard, Lyon, Maddern, Marshall, Martin, Mason, This last name originated from the British Isles, and is actually taken from the Greek name Alexandros, which refers...
We like the baby-naming trend of using last names as first names for boys, like Connor, Blake, Colton and Cooper, but none felt right. One day during the end of my second trimester, as I flipped through a Pottery Barn catalog, an image caught my eye: a little boy’s train-themed ...
Of the names provided in the surname fields of matches, in matches’ trees in the first few generations, and the testers’ surnames, Ferverda is repeated 12 times, for 50% of the time. Miller is repeated 9 times, so it’s likely that either of those are the missing grandfather’s surn...
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger were titans of British cinema, two names that defined a generation of film in England. The Powell and Pressburger films of the '40s and '50s are some of the greatest ever made, and again, we could easily mention other films, such as the quaint and qu...
“Honor” is a conspicuous word. It is the first word in the phrase “honor flight.” Maybe it’s used in the verbal sense, meaning the event is intendedto honorthe veterans who take part. But “honor” also has another sense, a noun sense. It’s an old-fashioned meaning we don’...
The most common complaint about cellphones is that people talk on them to the annoyance of people around them. But more damaging may be the cellphone’s interruption of our thoughts.We have already entered a golden age of little white lies about our cell
First, all of the CHD cases were compared to the controls (i.e., irrespective of CHD type). Next, three of the most common NBDPS CHD classes were compared to the controls (i.e., septal CHD, conotruncal CHD, and LVOTO CHD). Finally, the most common types of the NBDPS CHD ...
I talk to the boy who’s attending Harvard and the girl who forewent college to start her own company. They show me that there is more than one path to success. I congratulate the little kid running to his dad, excited to have won his very first masterpoints. He reminds me of the ...
Most Common Lake Names According toWikipedia, of Michigan's 11,000+ inland lakes some of the most common names include: Crooked Lake (6) Indian Lake (10) Mud Lake (7) Round Lake (4) Murphy Lake (5) Silver Lake (9) Bass Lake (5) ...