Names

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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: [See YouTube description]

Mental Floss VIDEO: things you didn't know had names: [See YouTube description]

US ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child: [See YouTube description]

Freakonomics "How Much Does Your Name Matter?": [See YouTube description]

Story of two children named "Winner" and "Loser": [See YouTube description]

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

Most common surnames: [See YouTube description]

LONGEST NAME: [See YouTube description]

Adolf Hitler Campbell: [See YouTube description]

endonym vs. exonym: [See YouTube description]

name laws: [See YouTube description]

Dads_Secret tweet: [See YouTube description]

Legally mononymous people: [See YouTube description]

Name-letter Effect: [See YouTube description]

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

Quirology on names: [See YouTube description]

US State denonyms: [See YouTube description]

New Zealand name laws: [See YouTube description]

"hierarchy of disagreement": [See YouTube description]
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Tags for this video have been changed from 'Names, name laws, first names, surnames, vsauce' to 'Names, name laws, first names, surnames, vsauce, demonyms' - edited by xxovercastxx

xxovercastxxsays...

oh, *laws also.

I wish they had also covered the way different cultures have handled surnames:
Occupational names (Smith, Baker, etc)
Geographic/locational names (Ford, al-Tikriti, Yamamoto, etc)
Patronymic/Matroymic names (Olsen, McDonald, etc)

...and I'm sure there's others I'm unaware of.

poolcleanersays...

You mean the opposite. I went through years of rigorous training for academic decathalon and we went through facts at a much brisker pace. Oh shit... is that what made me ADHD?

DAMN YOU USAD!!! DAMN YOOOOUUUUUUU..!

shatterdrosesaid:

I swear, I'm just not ADD enough to make it through some of these videos . . . .

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