November provides a cornucopia of names! Dori and Kristen celebrate the season of gratitude with pilgrims, grandbabies, car talk, and a pinch of Bitch Dust. Happy Thanksgiving!

How many ways are there to spell your name? Dori & Kristen navigate the ways we all abuse the alphabet, including a name with 134 variations. They also run down the top names for dogs and cats, and they can almost bring themselves to congratulate the winners of the World Series (while investigating that team's name).

Dori and Kristen return from a visit to lovely Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (Kristen has feelings about poutine.) They talk about "sibsets" and other alliterative naming choices, including Kristen's own family of origin. Dori spots a name in the wild, and she finds another way to cash in on corporate names...with a twist!

Dori and Kristen share some strategies for coming up with names for twins, including the one Dori used for her identical boys. Kristen gives Dori a baby-name quiz and they both pay homage to their beloved Golden State by explaining the surprising origin of the name California.

What names will we find in the C-Suite or the Oval Office in the near future? Dori and Kristen look at some possibilities. They'll also share some cases of name regret, with the names most likely to be dumped or adopted for different reasons. Finally, Pumpkin Spice season is here and some of you might be taking it a bit too far!

Dori and Kristen chat with a friend who has decided to embrace her very unusual first name. Listen in as they discuss the good, bad, and strange things she's discovered. Also, Kristen hears a new name 'in the wild' and Dori wonders how many parents are willing to call their child Pepsi or Jeep!

It's episode #2, and Dori & Kristen talk about names that have fallen out of favor in the US for a variety of reasons. Also, the American Name Society has released its 2024 Names of the Year, and Dori discusses a name she heard "in the wild". Send your questions and comments to [email protected]!

Meet Dori and Kristen, your fellow name nerds. We love talking about, researching, and collecting names from all eras. In this episode, we take a look at the trends in baby names so far this year. We also give you a peek behind the scenes of our baby-name consulting business as we share outtakes from one of our reports. We'd love to hear from you at [email protected]!