About us

Meet the team

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  Nomina Wells

  Name experts team captain & site admin

  Nomina's first encounter with the world of names was during a summer internship in the early 90's doing data entry for a baby name book. Names and their origins have ruled her professional life ever since. Over the years she has served as co-author and editor for baby names related content in several magazines, books and websites. Besides being preoccupied with names, Nomina loves playing board games with friends and is a fanatic runner. She is a member of the American Name Society.

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  Cynthia Matty

  Name expert

  Cynthia's fascination with names began with an interest in her own name and the names in her family, as she helped her mother compile their family tree. This spilled over to an interest in naming Sims, as she is a fan of the Sims games. Over the years she became a true name expert as her interest in names grew into a passion for "all-things- onomastic". In her spare time, Cynthia loves to rock-climb, play her flute and read science-fiction/fantasy novels.

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  Olyvia Christley

  Name expert

  Olyvia's love of names began at the age of eight, when she received an old Victorian dollhouse from some family friends and began to use her mother's baby name books to create elaborately named families to live in it. She has worked in the world of online naming as both a consultant and a name expert for over four years. In addition to working with names, Olyvia is also an avid reader, traveler, and follower of international politics.

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  Anna Clair Miller

  Name expert

  Anna first learned how to spell her name with the help of letter-shaped pancakes. Her ardent infatuation with the naming of people, places and things emerged as a result of growing up in a multicultural, urban environment, which gave her exposure to the concept of naming from a multilingual perspective. Her background in Latin provides an excellent foundation for the study of onomastics in the Western world, and she hopes that attaining fluency in Mandarin will broaden her knowledge regarding naming practices within the context of Eastern languages.

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  Wouter Vergeer

  Managing Director

  Wouter has a long history as an internet entrepreneur. Age nineteen when he founded his first internet company, he has since created and successfully sold 7 companies both small and large with well over 100 employees and offices in 5 countries. While Wouter's interest in names isn't as paramount as the name experts', as a usability and internet marketing master he is obsessed with learning how expectant parents use baby name websites and how he can use these insights to improve eBabyNames. Besides work, he enjoys spending time with his two young daughters and backpacking throughout non-western countries.

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  Erik Altink

  Web Developer

  Describing Erik as simply a web developer alone doesn't do justice to his extensive multifaceted experience. In addition to being an accomplished web development veteran, he specializes in internet marketing, usability, analytics, social media and media planning. In the past Erik has played a definitive role in several online projects, many that became prodigious success stories. Erik is father to Lucas and Simon, his two sons, and wishes he had time for more hobbies, but unfortunately he hasn't.

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  Dennis van Rooij

  Web Developer

  Dennis is an experienced web developer who has worked both as an independent contractor and as an employee for Europe's leading internet companies. He's elevated his skill level from pure web development to complete internet specialist. He is extremely knowledgeable in regard to all facets of development, hosting, internet marketing, design and usability. He loves state of the art development techniques as well as social media aspects that dominate today's internet. Dennis is father to Evi and he and his wife are expecting their second child on April 10th 2012.