Web Site of the Week: The Baby Name Wizard
Posted by: Christine Bulson
With Nora, a new baby in the family, I wondered about the name. babynamewizard.com is one of Time magazine’s 50 Best Websites 2009. The site is an off-shoot of The Baby Name Wizard by Laura Wettenberg. In addition to the origin of names it is possible to discover related names and famous people with the name. A graph depicts the popularity from 1880 to the present and a US map shows popularity by state beginning in 1960. A ranking of current popularity by country is also included. There is a link to Wattenberg’s blog where she discusses the science of names and of course, there is a link to purchase the book.
