"What's in a Name?" (New York Times)

mathmom
Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:00:31 +0000

My middle name was my grandmother’s last name and is my Dad’s first name. I’ve always liked that. That was our (extended) family’s favorite chapter of Freakomics. We were all reading it last December and it was the subject of endless conversations. My sil used to work for a paper and also had to write up birth announcements. She was there for the start of the craze of misspelling common names. It used to really bug her.