So I did one faux pa of podcasting here, and I completely forgot to ask you to introduce yourself and your title.

Okay. I'm Laura Wattenberg. I'm the author of the Baby Name Wizard Books and the founder of Namorology.com.

That's exactly what I was hoping you would say, both of those things. This is going to be highly edited.

And it's actually kind of a very interesting show that we're doing, which is not really talking all about names.

It's kind of a weird one.

This year is 20,000 Hertz.

Hosted by Dallas Taylor.

Dallas.

It's a name.

It's a city in Texas.

It's where the cowboys play.

Where they roam, too.

And a tailor?

And that's someone who makes a clothes fit just right.

Get yourself a bespoke, tailored suit, and you'll feel like a million buckaroos.

Now, what is a Dallas tailor?

Well, that all depends on who you ask.

Thank you. Taylor. Well, that all depends on who you ask. First, I just want to say that names are incredibly rich signals, that whether we realize it or not,

every time we hear someone's name, we're forming impressions

about a likely age, gender, ethnicity, even socioeconomic status or geography.

That's all part of the impression that comes with a name.

So it's something that you carry around like little social microclimate

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