In the 1940s, the top five names from the '30s stayed the same, though James took the top spot. James was the most popular given name from 1940-1960, which is commonly known as the Baby Boom Generation. There have been six American presidents named James. Pictured: Jame...
R.O.C.K. in the USSA reminded me I'm hungry when he wrote: Tovarichi wrote:Isn't that the stuff that used to come from chickens, but now comes from bacon? Speaking of bacon, I ran into this the other day: Each can comes with 40 to 50 slices of lipids and protein, produced us...
ANY name can become a girl name (at least in the USA). Granted I’m from a generation and area where Ryan was super popular on boys... I know SOOO many male Ryans. But whatever. If I met a female Ryan and she was nice, I’ll associate the name Ryan as a lovely girl name ...
Award-winning actor Joaquin Phoenix is widely regarded as one of the most talented actors of his generation. In his career of four decades, he has starred in numerous films playing characters that have become memorable. These include movies like Gladiator, Joker, Walk the Line and Her. The ac...
Award-winning actor Joaquin Phoenix is widely regarded as one of the most talented actors of his generation. In his career of four decades, he has starred in numerous films playing characters that have become memorable. These include movies like Gladiator, Joker, Walk the Line and Her. The ac...
Jesse Ryan:A character in the 1998 American horror filmThe Rage: Carrie 2. Jesse Stefanovic:A character from the Canadian TV seriesDegrassi: The Next Generation. Jesse Tuck:A character from Natalie Babbit’s American novelTuck Everlasting. ...
The name Emery is a boy's name of German origin meaning "industrious". Emery is one of the newly popular Em- names that has great potential, though right now for girls more than boys: it received a boost in 2009, a year after Angie Harmon and Jason Sehorn used it for one of their...
The name Royal is a boy's name of French, English origin meaning "royal". Even less subtle than Duke or Earl, this name shot up the popularity charts in 2013, the same year young Prince George was born and the craze for all things royal (and Royal) began. Today, it's a leading ...
The name Joanne is a girl's name of French origin meaning "God is gracious". A Top 100 name from the 1930s all the way through the 1950s, it's now firmly in Mom -- or Grandma -- land and supplanted for babies by Joanna...or even great-grandmother Josephine. In its heyday, it...
*So many*. Combine the popularity of Emma with that of Emily (even more common in my generation), and as soon as you shout, "Hey, Em!" into a room there's almost a guarantee that at least five young women's heads will snap up, thinking you've called her....