medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Jan 17, 2008, at 1:37 PM, Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
> culture
>
> There is a great blog on baby name trends called the Baby Name Wizard:
> http://thebabynamewizard.ivillage.com/parenting/
>
> The blog features a fascinating application called the Name Voyager
> which
> gives a great visual of trends in naming in the US using census
> data and
> such. I don't think it takes into account the UK, Canada or other
> English-speaking countries.
Yes, I noticed you can still see a small incidence of "Christian as a
woman's name in the US with that tool.
Pedagogical reflexes (which come into play when anyone mentions the
words "baby names" :) compel me to mention that the scholarship in
most baby-name books and websites is usually somewhere between
uncritical and nonexistent -- especially when they don't provide
dated citations.
A far, far better source of name information for the period before
about 1625 is the Medieval Names Archive:
http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/
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