names

Who named these cities and counties-- and what were they thinking?!?

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?

Not every Tom, Dick and Harry is meant to be a Tom, Dick and Harry.

A man in Sweden has the worlds longest first name it is a ridiculous 65 words long, so we decided to add a few first names of our own!

If you grew up in a house with brothers/sisters then you can all relate to listening to your Mom or Dad yelling for you, but calling out the names of all your siblings instead.

The magic of the Holidays, Lights, Santa, Reindeer and of course the Elves. Let's give some credit for all the hard workers behind the scenes. Up until the movie Elf came out the most famous one of all was Hermie from the movie "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" Until Now........

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

These days, we pretty much expect celebrities to name their kids something bizarre (because hey, free press) -- but some of them are so bad that you can't help but wonder if these people are such sadists that they aren't fit for parenthood...