Genealogists are pretty serious about their ancestors’ names—finding the right ones, learning their origins, figuring out all possible spelling variations. But that doesn’t mean you can’t have fun with names. Type your moniker into these online tools and you can:
- see how many US residents share your name
- customize “The Name Game,” that Shirley Ellis song from 1965
- look up the meaning for your first name
- translate it into Chinese, Japanese, and Hawaiian
- rearrange it into other words
- check its popularity
From the May 2010 Family Tree Magazine
