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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Baby Names News Roundup
- Otros The Top 100 Baby Names Tell An Interesting Story
- At the end of the day people tend to have very differing opinions as to the best baby names and whether they should be common, unusual or down right weird.
- Nancy's Baby Names Most Popular Baby Names in New South Wales, Australia in 2007
- The list of the most popular baby names in New South Wales was updated last month.* Here's the new top ten for each gender:
- Baby Names suitable for both Baby Boys and Baby Girls
- Nowadays, baby boy names are also being used to name baby girls. But it is rare for a boy to be named something girly or feminine.
- Running Just as Fast as I Can: Funny
- 5 Girl baby names you love (but won't use) and 5 Boy baby names you love (but won't use)
- TheRecord.com - CanadaWorld - Lea and William top list again as baby names of choice
- Lea and William remain the most popular names for newborn girls and boys in Quebec for the second year running.
- Baby names and pet names - birthtalks ®
- This might be silly but have you ever had the experience of meeting someone's pet with the same name as your child?
- gas - Especially Beautiful Baby Names and Their Meanings
- Here are 14 baby boy names and baby girl names that have great strength and beauty. Many come from mythology, poetry and nature. Others come from place names.
- Noah, Emma most popular N.S. baby names
- For the sixth straight year, Emma was the most popular name given to baby girls in the province. Figures from Nova Scotia's Vital Statistics office released Monday also show that in 2007 Noah replaced Ryan as the top name for boys.
- Most popular baby name origin?
- ...10 origins (out of the 90 total) got 80% of the visits...
- Swistle: Baby Names: Family Name Obligation
- If a couple has one child and chose to name that child after a parent (the child's grandparent), are they expected to name future children after relatives as well?
- Popular black names | Black Ghetto Baby Names
- For today's entry in Black Ghetto Baby Names, I would like to start a compendium of classically African American names, girl and boy.
- Ssa Baby Names at Baby Names
- Some baby names stand the test of time and remain popular for many years.
- Cate Blanchett announces baby Ignatius Martin @ Baby Name Blog, Celebrity Baby Name News | BabyNames.co.uk
- Actress Cate Blanchett and playwright husband Andrew Upton yesterday welcomed the arrival of Ignatius Martin, their third son, according to the Daily Telegraph. Blanchett and Upton already have two sons, Dashiell, 6, and Roman, 3.
- Sticks and Stones - Get Over It
- An interesting side effect of my research for the book is that I've developed Bad Baby Name Sympathy. I find that I start defending the name-givers.
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Baby Names News Update
- Jessica Alba Picks Baby Name - Starpulse Entertainment News Blog
- Jessica Alba will name her baby daughter Honor, according to new reports.
- Baby name game can get a bit outlandish
- What's in a name? Plenty, given that the child you name will carry that name forever as it becomes etched indelibly into every fiber of her being.
- Conna and An - the baby names du jour?
- ...classic spellings of traditional names such as Laura and William risk being consigned to history as scores of parents take the English language into their own hands when naming their children, creating misery for teachers and potentially scarring their offspring for life.
- And the Worst Bad Name Is . . . - TierneyLab - Science - New York Times Blog
- We have a winner in the Worst Bad Name Contest. And after talking to the woman who has this name, I’m happy to report we have new anecdotal evidence to go with the psychological studies supporting the Boy Named Sue theory: good things can indeed come from a bad name.
- The Story of a Boy Named Gay - TierneyLab - Science - New York Times Blog
- Somehow, in the more than 800 entries in the Lab’s bad-names contests, no one has mentioned anyone named April Fool. But this seems like the right day to begin awarding prizes, starting with the Best Weird-Name Story Contest.
- Sticks and stones are fine, but names can be loaded weapons
- Despite growing up before the days of caller ID, these weren't names I invented to torment my neighbours with late-night telephone pranks.
- Baby Names Being Derived from...Text Messaging? - Switched: Gadgets, Tech, Digital Stuff for the Rest of Us
- Seems utterly absurd, but there's apparently a trend among those in the SMS generation of using abbreviated versions of traditional Christian names on their children's birth certificates -- along with "original" ways of spelling them.