First, no, I don't expect anyone will get all of these, so don't feel inadequate.
Sources: The top 100 baby names in each sex is from http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/ - which may prove a useful data base.
I originally took a list of 4-letter words from an Australian Scrabble dictionary site:
http://www.scrabble.org.au/words/fours.htm - but several of them looked suspect. I couldn't find "mary" or "eric" (as two examples) used as anything but a proper name. So I crossed the list with this site:
http://www.a2zwordfinder.com/cgi-bin/scrabble.cgi?Letters=&Pattern=____&MatchType=Exactly&MinLetters=4&SortBy=Alpha&SearchType=Scrabble which got rid of several suspicious names.
Finally, I looked up each remaining entry on Dictionary.com, and included it only if it had, however obscure, a lower-case word listed for the name. |