Sentences with phrase «over baby name books»

We spend hours pouring over baby name books, websites and articles (like this one) trying to decide a name that has a strong solid meaning, perhaps a good history or maybe even something that allows us to use a cute nickname.

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When your child was born, you were probably so excited that you read baby books, scoured baby naming websites and debated for hours over what color to paint your nursery.

I did make an exception in my baby book for the Grandmother's Favorite blanket, inspired by the famous washcloth pattern of the same name in which yarn overs are used to create the edging of a blanket worked from one corner out and back again.

I recently got a bag of baby name books from a library sale for a $ 1 a bag and was thrilled to have had fit over 15 books on the subject in this bag to peruse at home.

Anyway, I was wondering if counting books and articles with baby names in the title is an accurate measure of how the interest in names has increased over the past 10-20-30 years.

To tap into cultural indicators of individualism, Grossmann and Varnum looked at trends in baby names over time (from Social Security Administration data), changes in word usage in books over time (using the Google Ngram database), and shifts in family structure, including family size and prevalence of multigenerational households (using U.S. Census data).

We are also the number one publisher of baby name books in the country, with six baby - naming books in print and total sales of over eleven million copies.