names

What's in a name? Well, a lot, apparently. And these are the names to avoid if you're looking for someone to date here in Minnesota.

The list has a couple of changes from 2022, with a bunch of names that are more popular in Minnesota than nationally making the list this time around.

It is a pretty common practice to mispronounce names of towns, but here is a compilation of Wisconsin towns sure to leave you toungue tied.

Here are the most popular baby names of 2018 for Duluth and Northeastern Minnesota, compared to the most popular baby names of the year for the United States.

With all the Petersons, Andersons, and Johnsons around the Badger State, what last names are the most common in Wisconsin? How common are those last names compared to the overall population of the state?

With all the Andersons and Olsons and Johnsons around the Land of 10,000 Lakes, what last names are the most common in Minnesota? Also, just how common are those last names?

Looking for the perfect baby name? Look no further.

My name is Cathy.  Not Katherine, Kathleen or Katie, just plain ole' Cathy.  It's spelled with a "c" because my mother said she couldn't make a good looking "k".  I don't mind my name and my parents had it picked out long before I was born, but I often wonder what their second choice might have been.   Now, thanks to TIME magazine, I can find out and so can you!

LOOK AT THAT FACE!  Adorbs!  Not one, but TWO sets of lemur twins were born this past summer at the Lake Superior Zoo's Primate Conservation Center!  The first set was a male and a female born on May 31.  The second set were both female born on June 29.  The staff at the zoo have come up with a fun way to name the babies and help biodiversity in Madagascar!

Picking a name for a baby can be tough, so maybe this study will help.

Jacob and Sophia are not a couple in the latest movie adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks novel, but they may be soon at this rate.

Residents of Toad Suck, Arkansas have long had to explain their unusual town name. At least now they can add to the explanation that they have been recognized as having the “most unfortunate” town name in America.