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Stacker used data from the Social Security Administration to rank the top names of the past decade, breaking down the top 50 for girls and boys. All of the naming trends that emerge offer insight into concurrent cultural trends, current events, and the p
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Names ending in bert have long been in limbo, but with the return of Albert, maybe there's hope for Herbert. who could share the Bertie nickname. Herbert is a name that's been used by English speakers since medieval times, and was in the Top 25 in the US in the late 1920s, around...
Everybody knows the United States of America, and almost everybody knows most of the States by name. Even the citizens of other nations will often be familiar with the names of the 50 U.S. states because they all feature so prominently in popular culture—in the movies of Hollywood, the...
Girl names are the subject of the lists on this page. Browse lists of baby girl names both classic and unusual, ancient and newly-invented. The lists here collect girl names that fit every taste and style, from Bible Names for Girls to Badass Princess Names, Greek Goddess Names to Unisex...
ABC News and 10 Million Names project team up to bring the stories of the 10 million people of African descent who were enslaved in pre- and post-colonial America
Holzer disagrees with the renaming of Abraham Lincoln High School, which the San Francisco committee said was due to the treatment of Native Americans during his administration. In the midst of the Civil War in 1863, Mr. Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation that freed slaves in the Confed...
Faces of the civil war: An album of union soldiers and their stories Before going off to fight in the Civil War, many soldiers on both sides of the conflict posed for a carte de visite, or visiting card, to give to their families, friends, or sweethearts. Invented in 1854 by a French...
Scott served for almost three decades in the Border Patrol, and as the chief of the agency during the last year of the Trump administration and beginning of the Biden administration. He helped implement Trump’s Remain in Mexico Policy, Title 42 and Safe Third Country agreements. Trump also ...