Baby Names

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/
Social Security Agency's interactive data page on baby names, including a list of the most popular names for a particular year of birth, back to 1990; a search on the popularity of names over the last 12 years; top five names by state, since 1990, and top 1,000 names for each decade of 20th century.

http://landview.census.gov/genealogy/names/
The U.S. Census Bureau site that tabulates the most popular male, female and last names for people counted in the 1990 census.

http://landview.census.gov/genealogy/names/nam_meth.txt
Find the explanation for the methodology used by the U.S. Census Bureau to tabulate surnames and first names by sex.

http://www.parenting.com/parenting/ tools/babynamer/name-o-meter.html
The Name-O-Meter's user-friendly format graphs the top 1,000 names of each decade of the 20th century. Some of the 4,139 names that make the cut are consistently high, others fade in and out of popularity. Some names appear only in one or two decades.

http://www.parenting.com/parenting/tools/ babynamer/article_topnames_by_year.html
Click on a year to find the top 10 names for boys and girls from 1880 to the present.

http://www.wtsn.binghamton.edu/ANS/Default.htm
The Web site of the American Name Society, which was founded in 1951 to promote onomastics, the study of names and naming practices, both in the United States and abroad. It is a non-profit organization that seeks to find out what really is in a name, and to investigate cultural insights, settlement history, and linguistic characteristics revealed in names.

http://www.behindthename.com/
This site allows users to research the etymology and history of first names. Users will find names listed under a variety of categories, including popular names in literature and mythology. It includes lists of the most popular names in the United States, dating back to 1900, and even the most common adult names in Florence, Italy, 1427.

http://www.melcombe.freeserve.co.uk/helps/names.htm
Find summaries of naming traditions in England and Wales, beginning with Anglo-Saxon names and continuing into the 1990s. See how naming trends changed through the centuries -- including a brief look at gypsy names -- from the home of those names often considered the most traditional in the English-speaking world.

http://www.babycenter.com/babyname
Find baby names by sex, ethnic origin, number of syllables, and more.

http://www.babynameworld.com/
Baby Name World offers thousands of male and female baby names, ethnic origin and meanings. Search by origin or letter to find that a first name and its meaning.

http://www.parenting.com/parenting/tools/ babynamer/create_a_name.html
Create a Name offers a way for parents to find unique names for their little one-and-onlys. Enter your criteria for a name, such as its first letter or ethnic origin, and see what develops.

http://www.healthri.org/management/vital/home.htm
Find out how you can get information on birth and death records for Rhode Island residents, from the state Department of Health.

http://projo.com/specials/genealogy
Finding family on the Web: A beginner's guide, with links to local, ethnic and national genealogical resources.

http://www.babynames.com/V5/index.php?content=blog/blog.php
Baby blog collects links to baby news from around the Net, with tidbits such as: do celebrities go out of their way to give their babies weird names, the birth of the baby said be the world's first cloned human and the pregnant Midge doll being removed from Wal-Mart's shelves.

http://ePregnancy.com/directory/Baby_Names/
Still can't come up with just the right moniker for your tyke? Let this site's "psychic" suggest names for your baby.

http://www.reevo.com/newname/mafia.php
We bet you can't refuse this offer. Create a Mafia-style nickname, by typing in a first and last name and see what comes back as the suggested middle name.