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Top 1000 US first names over time INTERACTIVE: http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager

surname geographical distribution INTERACTIVE: http://www.worldnames.publicprofiler.org

Dolphins using names: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/ne...

Mental Floss VIDEO: things you didn't know had names:    • 48 Names for Things You Didn't Know Had Na...  

US ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child:

http://www.unicefusa.org/campaigns/pu...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_ratif...

Freakonomics "How Much Does Your Name Matter?": http://freakonomics.com/2013/04/08/ho...

Story of two children named "Winner" and "Loser": http://www.sahio.com/the-story-of-two...

auto-antonyms: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contronym

Most common surnames: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_...

LONGEST NAME: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfe+58...

Adolf Hitler Campbell: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05...

endonym vs. exonym: http://mentalfloss.com/article/30810/...

name laws:

http://nation.time.com/2013/08/12/fro...
http://mentalfloss.com/article/25034/...

Dads_Secret tweet:   / 340242560503128064  

Legally mononymous people: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_...

Name-letter Effect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name%E2%...

Quirkology: http://www.quirkology.com/UK/

Quirology on names: http://www.quirkology.com/UK/Experime...

US State denonyms: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-STYL...

New Zealand name laws: http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/05/...

"hierarchy of disagreement": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Gra...)