Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-13
How Common Is My Name?
A U.S. name-popularity checker combining Census counts, Social Security baby-name trends, and estimated full-name frequency.
Why it surfacedThis is more thoughtful than a simple popularity ranking: it separates how many people currently share a name from how fashionable it is with new parents, using 2020 Census data and SSA records reaching back to 1880. The site also explains the limits of its full-name estimate and keeps searches in the browser, giving a familiar curiosity tool unusual methodological care.
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Thirty Patents for the Grave
August 13’s newborn domains include 30 safety-coffin patents, lost notices for false teeth and a box of hair, short films playing in 100 Tokyo taxis, and a Queensland river view arranged gauge by gauge downstream.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-13 Domain Arrivals issue.