In our lifetimes, we encounter approximately 3000 people each, to whom we are introduced. All these people have their own names, and all these names have power and meaning and purpose.
Given that we encounter so many different names in our lives, it is important that we check to see how many names we retain. We are humans, and creatures of habit, and pattern recognition machines. As soon as we hear a name, we can usually tell if we like it or not.
And this comes in useful when we are asked to suggest possible names for a niece or nephew, or even when we have to choose a baby name for one of our children. The more popular names we know, the more likely we are to choose a name that is trendy and in vogue, and that will carry a wealth of meaning.
After all, the baby name is the only gift we give to our young that they will carry through their lifetimes.
This trivia book will check your baby name quotient, and teach you which the 2000 most common names for young children in the US have been over the past three decades.