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I first thought of the subject of undiscovered baby names last September at a Labor Day picnic, when I was introduced to a man named Hanan (it rhymes with cannon).
I was struck, as I always am in this situation, that even after writing 10 books on names, after being professionally immersed in the subject for two decades, and after virtually a lifetime of name nuttery, I can still come across names that I’ve never heard before.
Hanan, as it turned out, was actually in the nameberry database: It’s an Old Testament name of a member of the tribe of Benjamin, just waiting to be rediscovered.
I started jotting down other names that were new ones on me and looking up their origins. Other recent selections from my personal undiscovered baby names list: