Measles cases are a record high. Why? Anti-vaxxers.
Watch Detroit crumble over time with images from Google.
RIP Metafilter.
David Leonhardt looks at the unemployment rate of community college graduates and see a bad number (4.8% percent compared to 3.4% for BA graduates). I think it’s good. (High school graduates have a 7.4% unemployment rate.) Glass half full or half empty?
Name PORN! 538 looks at the average age of the most common girl and boy names. The median age of a “Laura” is like 38, so I’m feeling very young and peppy this morning.
I do enjoy a good commencement address. This one is about lessons learned as a Navy Seal.
The U.S. economy is still pretty wobbly.
If a woman’s high school friend becomes pregnant, the chance that she will have a baby herself increases, peaking two years after the birth of her friend’s baby.
New York Magazine talks to romance writer, Mary Bly, who writes under the pen name Eloisa James, a Fordham English professor and Shakespeare scholar who has degrees from Harvard, Oxford, and Yale — oh, and she’s also married to an Italian knight and is the daughter of poet Robert Bly. James spoke via Skype from Italy about the connection between feminism and romance, intellectual snobbery, and what romance readers and John Green fans have in common.
Apt. 11d 
I’m basically right at the median age for my name. I think my name is still the modal name also.
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Count me firmly in the “glass half full” on community colleges. The advantages far, far outweigh the disadvantages. First, it gives people the opportunity to build on or discover talents, and raise their less-than-stellar grade point average in high school. An associate’s can be the stepping-stone to higher education, or the stepping-stone into a higher-paying job (example: it’s a big plus to have an associate’s if you’re applying for an apprenticeship or a civil service position, rather than just a high school diploma). It’s very common in the “upper working class” to take this route.
I could have given a rat’s ass in high school. Seriously. I hated it so much I graduated early. I was glad my dad talked me into continuing on to community college. I was “meh” when I entered the door, but hell—it wasn’t even two weeks in and I was loving it. I was taken seriously by the instructors, even though I was just (what my dad calls a) “punk kid” (he means it in “street kid” sense). I responded to that, and ended up making straight A’s.
Those grades and that degree got me into the apprenticeship program, and gave me the skills to excel there. I eventually became a union officer, and was able to parlay all my various experiences into managerial positions. Right now, I’m applying for an even better job—yes, a managerial one, that dovetails with all the skills and experience I already have. One of the other guys in my Local who has been working under that same title, in the same place, is earning over six figures.
It’s a common story. Having community college under your belt always helps. Even if the only thing it does is get you hired.
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As near as I can tell, managing people is almost as annoying as being managed by somebody. I’ve found myself in the fortunate situation of not being in the same building as anyone who might feel compelled to try to manage me, but I can’t get rid of the people I manage. Somebody keeps giving them the offices right next to mine and thinks that they are doing me a favor. It’s great to have somebody junior to stick the frustrating tasks on, but why would I want to be close enough to hear them struggle/complain/etc.?
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Yay!
One of my parents’ former employees had a similar high school career. Her motto in high school was “D is for diploma!”
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Yes for second chances and delayed starts. I was a flake in elementary school and snapped out of it in junior high. I can see how someone else might have felt as I did in ES in high school and not snapped out of it (i.e. found the fit of classes and style that worked for them) until CC, or college.
And, community colleges seem like a good place for this, as opposed to four year colleges hours from your support structure. I still think there’s room to do this in HS as well, HS for the 3+ years for people who haven’t gotten what they need there yet. I thought the UT Austin story was wonderful, and, providing that level of support to the 7% everywhere in a state might also be a solution (and one to consider when looking at the half full-more full comparison). But, for the rest, it seems that extended HS and community college would be better (and less expensive) options compared to for-profit colleges whose main effect to seems to take our money, impose the burden on the student who borrowed, and run.
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“David Leonhardt looks at the unemployment rate of community college graduates and see a bad number (4.8% percent compared to 3.4% for BA graduates). I think it’s good. (High school graduates have a 7.4% unemployment rate.) Glass half full or half empty?”
What a ridiculous idea on the part of Leonhardt.
To spend half the time and way less than half the money and achieve 7/10 of the result? Of course that’s a success story.
(Of course, that said, “community college graduates” probably skews to graduates of the more lucrative vocational programs rather than people who just couldn’t figure out what they wanted to study.)
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We got a kick out of this name database:
http://www.claritycampaigns.com/names,
especially ’cause it has my family’s rare first names.
Mine is <500 finds. You get a Dem campaign nodellers prediction of the political affiliation of those with your name, along with college graduation, gun ownership, and religiosity.
(The drawback being that the data and analysis seem to be proprietary, so who knows what it really means. I am shocked if 30+ percent of the people with my name have guns, but that shock might be confirmation bias and more akin to Rove's disbelief that Ohio went for Obama).
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modeller’s — though now I want to know what a nodelier is, though maybe it was just a typo and not a autocorect.
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If I remember my econ 101 class correctly, there’s an optimal unemployment rate. Too low of an unemployment rate and inflation accelerates. Too high and obviously not enough potential workers are working. The OECD suggests that the “full-employment” unemployment rate for the US is between 4% and 6.4%.
So if community college grads are in that range, I’d say that’s pretty good.
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It still kills me how the name Sophie became so popular. Mine is almost 15 now. I guess my mom felt the same way when she named my sister Jennifer.
I’m surprised my name isn’t in a graph there. Most Wendys were born in the late 50s to early 70s. I was born at Peak Wendy. đŸ™‚
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I have a 2001 Violet. It was 661 on the SSA site then; it is 69 now. As someone who had to grow up with the name Lisa, I am not very happy about my daughter’s name shooting up in popularity, though I think I was named Lisa at the peak, so maybe it’s better that she was born almost a decade before the peak (assuming we’ve hit the peak–please, please don’t go top 10!)
I also have a Charlotte. That name has gone up significantly in popularity as well–it is about to hit top 10, though since she’s 16 she’s going to be a lot older than the peak.
The only daughter I have whose name has not gone up rapidly is the one whose name was picked by her father (We had twins–I agreed as a condition of having the other twin named Violet). Juliet–still in the 200s.
I obviously did something wrong, since I did not want popular names, but what could I have done? Picked names I hated on the assumption that everyone else would hate them in 10 years? Named them Lisa, for God’s sake? (That would have worked, but everyone would assume they were in their late 40s!) Or perhaps I should have let my husband pick them all, on the assumption he wasn’t subtly influenced by cultural factors in the way I so obviously was? (But I think he liked Madeline!)
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Charlotte was on my list! My dad’s name was Charles, but he was dead set against any of us kids naming a kid after him, so I let that one go.
E’s name is not on any of those lists, which makes me happy. I did see Carter show up on those lists–my husband and I were very close to naming him Carter, but we didn’t like the way it went with either of our last names. I tried to make a case for John Carter (we were big fans of ER then ;), but it still didn’t work for us. If E ended up being a girl, I was pushing for Nella or Nora, versions of the increasingly popular Eleanor (two friends named their daughters Eleanor within a year of E’s birth).
Ah, name porn. I love it.
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Fans of ER or ERB?
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Also, Sam Gamgee’s first daughter’s name is Eleanor.
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I’m still waiting for Fimbrethil to catch on as a girl’s name.
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If you’re like me, you could like names from your ethnicity that don’t translate well and most Americans find super ugly. I really want to name my potential future daughter Gerd, but no one potentially willing to reproduce with me is ok with that.
My name is traditional but kind of stodgy in the country where it’s from, but ironically was popular in a neighboring country when I was born. People from the neighboring country all assume I’m from there when I introduce myself.
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Isn’t the female name “Gerda”? (At least in Denmark.) I thought “Gerd” (as in von Rundstedt) was the male form. Gerda was my mother-in-law’s name, but we haven’t continued it.
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Gerd is a female name in Scandinavia. My sense is it’s used more in Norway and Gerda more in Sweden/Denmark. In my family, the Gerds are Norwegian and the Gerdas are Swedish. Gerd is a boy’s name in Germany, I think it’s a shortened version of Gerhardt. To me it reads feminine, but I’ve discovered traditional Norse women’s names read masculine and ugly to most non-Scandinavians.
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Actually, they like their names, which is all that matters of course (though they don’t want them to go up in popularity either). I guess I’m somewhat traumatized by being a Lisa, but at least my last name is unusual, which is just the way I like it.
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Regarding Eloisa James: I “met” her online years ago, maybe after her second novel came out but I can’t remember where…. probably RRA-L. I’ve read a few of her earlier books and enjoyed them but haven’t read much more and I don’t know why. I think maybe it’s because she reminds me of me, but a more successful me, and that intimidates me. đŸ™‚
I’d glom her books this summer, but I’m actually working on a couple of romance-related writing projects. One is about economic politics in romance novels, so it has me reading a lot of billionaire romances (ugh) and small-town romances (my teeth hurt). I’m trying to figure out if romances are actually not tools of capitalist ideology. I’ll let you know what I find out.
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I love name analysis. I also like to giggle over people who picked names they thought were unusual to see them hit top 10 popularity (I’m a generally nice person, but this pleases me, a reflection of a dark side of my personality, I think the one that likes knowing more than other people or being able to say I told you so).
I know a huge number of people who think they are choosing unusual names only to see them going up in popularity (it is a common high SES/educated population foible). I think part of the issue is that people pick names they think are unusual based on how common they are in a current population (comparing to names of our own generation, or to the generation reflected in famous/celebrity figures) but name trends (like predicting the stock market) is about prediction, trying to figure out what will be hot in the next decade. I think people are notoriously bad at that.
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You are laughing at me, aren’t you. đŸ˜‰
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Yes. đŸ™‚ But, I laugh more at a the friend who chose the name Eva, thinking that it was special, only to see Ava hit the top 5 a year later.
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“I love name analysis. I also like to giggle over people who picked names they thought were unusual to see them hit top 10 popularity”
With our two oldest, I thought we were choosing unusual names. We didn’t want unusual names, but we thought that they would be unusual. Well, same deal–both are now top 100 and the oldest has a classmate with the same name (but spelled different) in a small class.
I also screwed up a bit on spelling–our C suffers with everybody spelling her name wrong because I chose the less popular spelling. Sorry, C!
Baby T, however, seems to be doing OK, as her name peaked years ago. It’s not quite a “Lisa” or a “Jennifer” or a “Rebecca” or an “Amy” or a “Heather” but her name has already had it’s day. (It’s a standard name back in Poland, so it took a while to talk my husband into it–it sounded too humdrum at first.)
I didn’t suffer that much from being an Amy (I only knew one or two back in school), but it’s funny hanging out at the Skeptical OB, where there are Amys in vast profusion.
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I perseverate about baby name data, so, another site:
http://www.ourbabynamer.com/Laura-name-popularity.html
The site plots the year trends for the name — peak Laura seems to be 1968. Peak Wendy 1967. Peak Lisa 1965 (which explains why all those names are familiar to me. My name cannot be found, but that’s my generation, too). Peak Jennifer is 1972. Peak Hannah 2000 (to look at my daughter’s generation). Jack is double peaked, but the modern peak was 2005; Peak Aidan 2003 (so, my son’s time).
My girl kiddo’s name might break into the top 1000 soon, which will make her sad. We (spouse & I, not the girl, who did not get to pick her name) picked the name in the hopes that it would not be in the top 1000 ever in her lifetime. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that it will reverse in popularity before making it there, but there has been a disturbing trend — the inflection point was 1999 and the peak is 2013. Boy kiddo’s name has also increased in popularity, but I think it will peak before it becomes popular.
If I were naming a baby now, I would use these sites to try to predict trends, so that I didn’t accidentally pick a name that is clearly popular, or increasing in popularity, that I just didn’t know about. I would also avoid names that I think are so popular in a time so that the name predicts age (though this is harder with girls’ names than boys’). Finally, I’d consider some more unusual names — we picked ethnic/cross-cultural names for our kids, but that’s a trend, too, that those cultures are trying to pick cross cultural names. I might go with more solid names from other cultures to try to stay out of the popularity rankings.
(Their middle names are less popular — one doesn’t appear, and the other is very rare, and not changing in popularity. We also considered more unusual names and excluded them, yes, probably based on their unusualness, because, we like everyone else of our ilk, were trying to pick a name that was unusual, but not weird).
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Wow. Above 1000. That’s got be hard. As little popularity as Lisa now has, it’s still top 1000, along with a lot of strange names I’ve never heard in person.
My sister was Jennifer, so it’s a multi-generational problem in my family, though again she was named near-peak.
My sister-in-law has chosen last names for her girls. That seems to be one of the major trends–one which I don’t get, though one she picked was my favorite transcendentalist, though that is definitely not why she picked it.
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It’s the ethnic twist. Because we are picking semi-ethnic names, they don’t sound unusual to us, even though they are unusual here. They’re not *really* unusual though so they don’t sound weird. Think, for example, Bjorn.
The other scheme is to pick a name that’s meaningful to you — then, it doesn’t matter if it’s popular or not. But, even there, we are biased by societal trends. I know a girl named Emerson, because that’s her mother’s last name. But, it turns out that Emerson is one of the last names that’s become extra popular. Why? Sometimes you can trace a trend (like a famous actor or a tv show) but often it’s just an example of subtle societal influence and tipping points. I would like to see more serious study of the trends, because I think they’re an example of predicting social trends in general.
(PS: I wrote that without thinking of transcendentalists, but, uh, I guess, more subtle group influences?)
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bj, that’s the exact name I was referring to!
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PS: The analysis at Laura’s link, which calculates an expected age is better than using the “peak” term, but I like peak name as a unit.
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I have a friend who failed out of high school, and then spent several years getting his bearings. He failed out of CC a few times, then got it together, got his AA, and transferred to a good state school, got his BA at age 24, and then got into the top PhD program in his field. He worked in IT for a few years after graduation and paid off all his college debt (under 10K for 6 years of higher ed). Many of his CC classes were as rigorous and challenging as his classes at the flagship state school he went to, but a fraction of the cost.
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I know a girl named Emerson
NOOOOO!!!! That’s (one of) my nickname(s) at the union hall. Short for “Knock knock. Who’s there? Emerson. Emerson who? Emerson big tits ya got there, baby!!!”
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A friend of my mother’s was teaching second grade, and had NINE Lisa’s in her class. Turned out this was, yes, nine years after the movie David and Lisa.
Wanna be safe? Edna. Edna is NEVER coming back. Nor Arlene. Myrtle, Gertrude. There are safe names out there.
Sex shift in names is interesting. Almost always from male to female – Marion, Tyler, Leslie. Cameron. My daughter Annie was astonished when I told her about King Anna of Wessex.
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I think Arlene will come back. Not so confident about Gertrude, Myrtle and Edna.
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There can be a lot of variation among ethnic and cultural groups. My daughter’s name peaked about 1980 (14 years before she was born), but remains (or at least remained, through her early years) a popular name among UMC WASPs. Since we mostly hang out in those circles, she had several friends, classmates, teammates etc. who shared her name.
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I spent all day at a stupid dance competition yesterday, so to amuse myself after I finished my book and after my iphone’s battery went out (I was there NINE HOURS), I obsessively read the program over and over. I counted no fewer than 4 Sophies, which really annoyed me. The names all have a depressing similarity. Kayla, Kayleigh, Kaylee, Mia, Maddie, Madison, Stephanie, Olivia, Taylor, Katie, Nicole, Hannah, Isabella, Mackenzie, Sydney, Julia, Gabrielle, Gabriella.
Some interesting name choices: Penelope, Naomi, Stella, Skye, Lydia, Cordelia, Athena, Gwen, Norma, Marina.
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Penelope — an example of a name that is trending, but still sounds unusual, and thus is dangerous if you’re looking for unusual names. Jumped from below 1000 in 2000 to 56th in rank today. Naomi, Stella, Lydia are all top 100 names, Skye, Athena top 500, Gwen, Marina top 1000, Only Cordelia & Norma are >1000 names. I predict that Cordelia will emerge, but am less sure about Norma.
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Very sound analysis.
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My daughter’s name seems to break into the top 1,000 every 80 years. She’s got about 50 to go.
I didn’t realize this when we named her. It’s nice to not be one of the crowd.
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Another point, which will tie together several discussions here: if you give your child a popular UMC name, and your last name is relatively common, then you assure that future admissions officers and personnel directors will not be able to find her online.
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Whether or not that’s a good thing depends on what she’s been doing with her time.
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Bronson is much more popular than Waldo right now. No one wants to name their child Alcott or Thoreau.
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I think Alcott will come in, and have a little bit of suspicion that it’s the lack of love for the books of Louisa May Alcott that’s making it less popular right now.
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Speaking of which, my daughter and I had an argument the other day about how she refuses to read any of the books I loved at her age, including the Alcott Little Women series. No, she has been choosing books like Slaughterhouse Five, Flowers for Algernon, and Catch 22. *sob* I even have Xmas ornaments of Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy that I put on the tree every year.
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My kiddo has the same view — Little women, Little House, Anne books, which I liked and still continue to re-read as comfort books, never attracted her fancy. I have a theory, that feminism has changed the world enough, that the limits imposed on the girls in those books (which, back in the day, were a celebration of their power and freedom, compared to even more constrained lives) strikes her as limiting, sometimes even to the point of offensiveness.
A big part of the Little Women books is teaching the girls to fit into the girl boxes, even though they may be more vain, active, independent, . . . . than is ideal. Complaints about Jo’s whistling or acting like a boy drive my girl batty.
I think she’s finding Austen more empowering (there at least, the women work within their rules to get what they want, rather than being trained to become better women), and enjoyed the Scarlet Letter.
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We named our firstborn Mercedes – we do have one Mercedes in my husband’s family. Australia is peculiar in that this name, which is reasonably usual in many places in the world, is almost unknown here.
Wouldn’t you know there was a famous drug trial a while back featuring a family which was one of those cheerily dysfunctional trainwrecks which tabloid news outlets love to feature. One of the members of this family was called Mercedes. Now, as far as Australia is concerned, the name is hilarious, and means your parent is both super clueless and vain and has named you after a luxury car.
GAH!!
I recommend anyone here who hasn’t finished reproducing name all future children John and Susan.
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And of course the car was named after the daughter — Mercedes Jellinek — of one of the early Daimler dealers.
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Isn’t it a little stalker-creepy to start naming things after the daughters of your business associates?
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Less creepy than many other aspects of Wilhelmine Germany.
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Call her Sadie or Mercy as a nickname. Then help finance her move to the US…. đŸ˜‰
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Yes, she’s been Sadie since birth – everyone in Australia has to have a “short version” name, we’re linguistically lazy!
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Among our three kids’ names, the one derived from Finnish is in the top 150, which I find faintly astonishing, especially considering the one that is shared with one of Columbus’ ships is in the 200s, and the one that is common enough elsewhere — in Cyprus, people said, “Ah, XYZ! Greek name!” and in Moscow they said, “Ah, XYZ! Russian name!” — barely cracks the top 600, and indeed is below 1000 prior to 2007.
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My kids’ names were somewhere in the high 400’s when we gave them to them, but they’re now in the top 100, which I think means that my older teens will share their names with a lot of people almost twenty years younger than themselves. At some point when my youngest was in elementary school, a cartoon came out where the main character had her (until then) relatively obscure name. I’m assuming that’s what led to the spike. My kids have always been the only ones in their school with their names, which is kind of fun. I remember feeling bad when I taught at a prestigious university and every class had at least three Brittany’s and often I was never entirely sure who was who — particularly since they had a weird tendency to befriend one another and sit together in groups. (I always assumed the plural was Brittanae.)
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This convicted killers list suggests a middle name to avoid:
Timothy Wayne Adams (Texas)
Thomas Wayne Akers (North Carolina)
Stephen Wayne Anderson (California)*
Joshua Wayne Andrews (Virginia)
David Wayne Arisman (California)
Timothy Wayne Barnett (Alabama)
Gerald Wayne Bivins (Indiana)
Scott Wayne Blystone (Pennsylvania)
Steven Wayne Bowman (South Carolina)
Ricky Wayne Brown (Florida)
Michael Wayne Brown (Oklahoma)
Bradley Wayne Cagle (Texas)
Seth Wayne Campbell (Texas)
Darren Wayne Campbell (Oregon)
Mark Wayne Campmire (Connecticut)
Ronald Wayne Clark, Jr. (Florida)
Douglas Wayne Clark (Texas)
Darryl Wayne Claughton (Alberta)
Kevin Wayne Coffey (Texas)
Michael Wayne Cole (North Carolina)
Joseph Wayne Cook (North Carolina)
Billy Wayne Cope (South Carolina)
Alvin Wayne Crane (Texas)*
David Wayne Crews (Tennessee)
Donald Wayne Darling II (Alabama)
Christopher Wayne Davis (Louisiana)
Gary Wayne Davis (Kentucky)
Jerry Wayne Dean (Kentucky)
Gary Wayne Drinkard (Arizona) (ACQUITTED at retrial after 5 years on death row)
Aryan Wayne Duntley (California)
John Wayne Duvall (Oklahoma)*
Dennis Wayne Eaton (Virginia)*
Dale Wayne Eaton (Colorado)
Michael Wayne Eggers (Alabama)
Gary Wayne Etheridge (Texas)
Michael Wayne Farmer (Maryland)
Ellis Wayne Felker (Georgia)*
Michael Wayne Fisher (Pennsylvania)
Terry Wayne Freeman (Illinois)
Percy Wayne Froman (Alabama)
Ronald Wayne Frye (North Carolina)*
Morris Wayne Givens (Alabama)
Richard Wayne Godwin (Oregon)
Arthur Wayne Goodman, Jr. (Texas)
Richard Wayne Gorrie (New Zealand)
Jeffrey Wayne Gorton (Michigan)
Coleman Wayne Gray (Virginia)*
Christopher Wayne Gregory (Texas)
Ralph Wayne Grimes (Kentucky)
Anthony Wayne Grimm (Illinois)
Randall Wayne Hafdahl (Texas)*
Conan Wayne Hale (Oregon)
Kenneth Wayne Hall Sr. (South Carolina)
Michael Wayne Hall (Texas)
Steven Wayne Hall (Alabama)
Jerald Wayne Harjo (Oklahoma)*
Robert Wayne Harris (Texas)
Carl Wayne Heath (Maine)
Brandon Wayne Hedrick (Virginia)
Michael Wayne Henry (Texas)
Rodney Wayne Henry (Kansas)
Donald Wayne Holt (Maryland)
Bryant Wayne Howard (Oregon)
Kenneth Wayne Jackson (Texas)
Allen Wayne Jenecka (Texas)*
Mark Wayne Jennings (Virginia)
Robert Wayne Jiles (New York)
Terry Wayne Johnson (Florida)
Jason Wayne Johnson (Texas)
Mark Wayne Jones (Ohio)
Bruce Wayne Koenig (Maryland)
Derrick Wayne Kualapai, Sr. (California)
Dudley Wayne Kyzer (Alabama)
Monty Wayne Lamb (Texas)
Jeffrey Wayne Leaf (Oklahoma)
Christopher Wayne Lippard (North Carolina)
Kenny Wayne Lockwood (Texas)*
Mark Wayne Lomax (Texas)
Shelly Wayne Martin (Maryland)
Donald Wayne Martin (Texas)*
Steven Wayne McBride (Minnesota)
George Wayne McBroom (Arizona)
David Wayne McCall (Texas)
Rocky Wayne McGowan (Kentucky)
Jason Wayne McVean (Colorado)
Wesley Wayne Miller (Texas)
Jimmy Wayne Miller (Texas)
John Wayne Moore, Jr. (Missouri)
John Wayne Moses (North Carolina)
Jack Wayne Napier (Kentucky)
Danny Wayne Owens (Alabama)
Bryan Wayne Padd (Arizona)
David Wayne Pallister (England)
Jeffrey Wayne Paschall (Utah)
Michael Wayne Perry (Tennessee)
Jason Wayne Petershagen (Texas)
Curtis Wayne Pope (Texas)
Donald Wayne Rainey (Mexico)
Randy Wayne Richards (Canada)
Robert Wayne Rotramel (Oklahoma)
David Wayne Satterfield (Texas)
Christopher Wayne Scarber (Kentucky)
Michael Wayne Sears (Virginia)
Dallas Wayne Shults (Tennessee)
Mark Wayne Silvers (South Carolina)
David Wayne Smith (Virginia)
Daryl Wayne Smith (West Virginia)
Richard Wayne Smith (Texas)*
Richard Wayne Snell (Arkansas)*
Richard Wayne Spicknall (Alabama)
Randall Wayne Stevens (Illinois)
John Wayne Stockdall (Missouri)
Michael Wayne Summers (Missouri)
Gary Wayne Sutton (Tennessee)
Bobby Wayne Swisher (Virginia)*
Michael Wayne Thompson (Indiana)
Andrew Wayne Toler (Texas)
Robert Wayne Vickers (Arizona)*
Billy Wayne Waldrop (Alabama)*
Jerry Wayne Walker (Kentucky)
Anthony Wayne Walker (Ohio)
Daniel Wayne Warfield (Virginia)
Louis Wayne Watters, Jr. (Texas)
Coy Wayne Wesbrook (Texas)
Larry Wayne White (Texas)*
Michael Wayne Williams (Virginia)
Richard Wayne Willoughby (Maryland)
Kenneth Wayne Woodfin (Virginia)
Bobby Wayne Woods (Texas)
Darrell Wayne Wright (Texas)
William Wayne Wright (Texas)
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So, avoid men’s names? We should start naming the boys Elsa and Anna? (oops, accidental Disney reference, which just goes to show how subtle the influences are. I was going to say Sue, and then decided I should try to be different, and managed to be the possibly less creative))
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He means the middle name “Wayne.” That so many killers had it as a middle name was a News of the Weird feature for years.
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Bruce Wayne…
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He’s just a friend.
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Anna, King of East Anglia
(Died AD 654)
Anna was the son of Prince Eni, a brother of King Redwald of East Anglia. He lived through the troubled times of the early 7th century, when King Penda of Mercia sought to expand his borders at the expense of his East Anglian neighbours. In AD 635, he made a push for control of Middle Anglia and crushed the forces of King Egric in battle. Along with the retired King Sigebert, Egric was killed in the fighting and Anna found himself taking on his brother’s throne.
Anna had probably been converted to Christianity by St. Felix during his first visit to Sigebert’s court in AD 631.
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From the divine Simcha Fisher:
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/simchafisher/2014/04/08/polio-and-mumps-are-manageable-diseases/
“These illnesses are manageable. Here are some children managing polio”
[picture of African children crippled by polio]
“And here is a baby managing whooping cough (pertussis)”
[video of 7-week old baby whooping]
OW!!!
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