Baby Names in the News

* Google Trends shows the mind of Utah
Consider that predominantly Mormon, family-friendly Utah leads the nation in searches on such terms as Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints President "Gordon Hinckley," "Jesus," the "second coming," "scrapbooking," "baby names,"

* Angelina Jolie & Katie Holmes: Babies Win 'Bizzare' Poll
UPI reports that regarding "bizarre baby names," Suri Cruise -- the new child of actors Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes -- got top billing with 29 percent of the votes. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's new arrival, Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, was a close

* PARADE.COM Pop Culture Poll Finds: Hottest Sex Symbols Of All Time
Brooke Shields (11%) and Tori Spelling vs. her mom, Candy Spelling (8%). * Bizarre baby names run rampant in Hollywood. But what's the weirdest name given to celebrity spawn? Suri Cruise (29%) and Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt

* Harvey H. Jackson: Welcome to the world, ‘Sweet Pea’
She discovered me and my address while looking for baby names. It seems a friend of hers was pregnant; they were checking the Internet for names that were unique. Overblue liked Southern names, so they Googled around and came across a column I had ...

* From the SSA
KFOR - Most Popular Baby Names for 2005

Baby Name Search News

* World strange, wondrous, curious place
Contemporary baby names are dooming a generation of children to a lifetime of misery. Try living with the name April if your last name is Rain or try teaching a child's teachers how to spell or ...

* Where is Ali Gilmore?
Baby names, scribbled in Ali's handwriting. Jaiza. Jalon Ali. Jamaica. James Arthur. Co-workers said she wanted the baby to have the same initials as her husband. On another desk is a small, brown baby doll the size of a hand. The baby is wrapped

* Marin Independent Journal
One of the most popular sections is "Baby's Named a Bad, Bad Thing" - a forum to post and chat about the worst baby names they've stumbled upon, such as Angel Princess, Mountearl, Beyond Belief and Fecia. Goodman says a lot of people check out the bad

* Looking for Ali and finding a story
In reading Price's story, I was struck most by the image of Ali's desk at work: virtually untouched since she went missing, it still contains scraps of paper with possible baby names for her first born, who was due July 18. I was struck by the fact

* Past year proves that 'growing up' isn't so bad
And now that many of our friends are having babies, we've added baby names, baby sitters and general child-rearing topics to our list of acceptable topics of conversation. It's not a bad thing. It's just funny that only a few years ago I would have

* Humor can help parents cope with child rearing
Wilder's first chapter is about how his wife and her sisters began hoarding baby names when they were still prepubescent. He recalls the day she suggested Hemingway as the name for their unborn daughter: " 'Where'd you get that name anyway?' I asked

* When it comes to names, old is new again
He comes from a Mennonite family in Pennsylvania Dutch country, said Cleveland Kent Evans, professor of psychology at Bellevue University in Nebraska and author of "The Great Big Book of Baby Names." The name also underscores the fact that male names