August 2008

Baby Names Update

Awful Baby Names
Although there are many things my husband and I disagree about, when it comes to baby names, we already have the first few picked out. If it's a boy, we'll name him Gabriel and if it's a girl, we'll name her Miriam, after his mother who ...

Hippie baby names
I don't know how I found this, but it's amusing. Some of them are pretty nice: I wonder if I could sell my husband on Lyric or Dezra. :)

top 100 baby boy names
Perhaps one of the most exciting part of being a parent is when we are to choose for baby names and buying baby shower gifts. In fact, many parents are striving to search for the top 100 baby boy names and unique baby girl names– full ...

Certain Doom for Any Baby Name
Q. Is there any one thing that could cause a Baby Name to lose popularity? A. Hurricanes. In 1950 "Hurricane Naming" began and since then a pattern has emerged, once a hurricane name is used it will spell certain doom the following year ...

Celebrity Baby Names: Crazier Than Most
Celebrity Baby Names: Crazier Than Most. Recently, you might have heard about the judge who mandated that girl named Talula Does the Hula in Hawaii be renamed. Yes, that was her actual name. Talula Does the Hula in Hawaii. ...

More Names in Hawaii - Ikalka, Kalani, Pilaku, Muliufi
A spotted a few Hawaiian names in yesterday's Honolulu Star Bulletin:. Ikalka Kalani Kealoha, Nalea Pikai Pilaku. I also discovered that Honolulu's half-Samoan, half-German mayor is named Muliufi Hannemann. He’s referred to as “Mayor ...

Bad Dad: Celebrity Baby Names - Wired News
Bad Dad: Celebrity Baby Names Wired News - and the occasional totally made up name, celebrities are having to stretch their imaginations to come up with fresh and controversial names for their ...

The 45 Worst Celebrity Baby Names
What is it with celebrities? While the rest of us agonise over whether we should spell Catherine with a C or a K, the stars are pulling random letters out of a hat to create Makenalei or Destry.

More Olympic Names - Disney, Ludwing, Monday, Olimpio
Too bad I didn't know about Venezuelan weightlifter Julio Cesar Luna Fermin when I was posting about Cleopatra Borel-Brown a few days back. :). Other Olympic names I’ve discovered since publishing that earlier post include: ...

Baby Names Weekend Reading

The Bad Baby Names Phenomenon
Of all the forum topics that have sprouted in the last few years, one of the more curious ones is the fascination with bashing ‘bad baby names’. There are suprisingly large groups of people who spend considerable amounts of time ...

NEW Daily Top Ten List
We ranked the baby names based on their popularity during a single 24 hour period. This is a nice addition to a increasing number of ways to search baby names from Baby Name Guide. Click Here to View Our New Daily Top Ten List.

Perfect Baby Names For Girls Choosing Guide
By Olinda Rola The list of baby girls names that are the most popular can help you when deciding on which names are the best baby names for girls. Choosing her name is fun for the parents, family... [[ This is a content summary only. ...

Top 10 Stupidest Baby Names
I was on a few different baby name websites, and there were the one leaving me feeling sorry for those kids. I am not even kidding, I found all these on Parenting.com and was amazed. Boys. 10. Remington. 9. Hugo (sorry lost fans) ...

The Top 100 Baby Names Tell An Interesting…
The Top 100 Baby Names Tell An Interesting Story August 22nd, ... to pregnancy, baby names and baby care. Nikon Digital Posted in Haruns Blog ( View Technorati URL search 1 link from 1 site) Tags: Nikon Tree News ...

TOP 10 Worst Celebrity Baby Names
Being a celebrity gives your the right to get away with just about anything. This includes doing drugs, sleeping with anyone you want and even ruining your children’s lives. These are the TOP 10 Worst Celebrity Baby Names. 10. ...

Gwen Stefani Welcomes Baby, Names Him Zuma Nesta Rock
But this name is just so out there — hard to believe somebody cculd have made it up if it wasn’t true! Digg! Save to del.icio.us. Technorati Tags: celebrity baby names, baby names, celebrity gossip, celebrity babies, Gwen Stefani baby ...

Big stars, bad baby names
Oh no she didn't! Celebrities can get away with a lot these days. Wearing outfits that don't match. Washing their hair with Evian. Having personal umbrella holders. Gwen Stefani had another baby boy by caesarean on Thursday. ...

Disastrous Baby Names
As Floridians prepare for Tropical Storm Fay's third assault, we guess some moms-to-be might be re-thinking naming their baby Fay?

Weird Celebrity Baby Names
by: Alli Ross Celebrities seem to be competing for the wierdest baby names. Among the social elite, you'll find names like Apple, Banjo, Cosima, and Daisy Boo. As always, Americans seem to be... [[ This is a content summary only. ...

The Dilemmas of Choosing African American Baby Names
This article examines the issues of cultural awareness, vs the potential disadvantages of choosing African American baby names. Read More... [Source: Article Node RSS Feed of Free Re-Print Articles - Posted by FreeAutoBlogger]

Baby Names Choosing Techniques
by: Ian Byrd How do you even begin the process of naming your baby? Where do you start? Do you crack open a book with tens of thousands of names? Just pick a name out of the air? This article will...

Unusual baby names
The website also has a lot of unusual baby names which are really good and use it for our babies. So if you are going to become a parent and need all the information about pregnancy, parenting and baby care you must visit the website ...

His name is longer than he is: The reasoning behind two middle names
When, I was a middle-schooler I became friends with a young lady with three middle names. A bit excessive I thought, but her whole name was so fun to say that I didn’t think much of it. She is the only person I know for certain who had ...

Twins Baby Names
by: Sarah Mitchell Choosing a baby name for your new born can be quite a stressful decision. With thousands upon thousands of names at your disposal, you may begin to feel a little over whelmed....

Silly Baby Names
Hi people i have been looking through a lot of baby name books lately as some of you will know and i found some funny names so just thought i would share them with you and belive me these names are realy in the book. ...

Avoiding Family Conflict Caused By Baby Names
by: Ian Byrd Naming your baby is one of the most time consuming and frustrating processes leading up to the birth of your child. There are literally tens of thousands of choices. It is difficult...

Baby Names Picking Guide
by: Marilyn Willoughby Researchers claim that there are over one million baby names in everyday use worldwide. How are you going to pick from among all of the baby names in existence? Is the...

Baby Names News and Views

100 years of baby names
The Baby Names Explorer is a fun way to browse through more than a century of the top 1200 baby names in NSW. pitty they only did it in NSW it would have been interesting to see the whole of Australia! ...

Naming your baby?
You may also be wondering about the coolest baby names of 2008 or 2007’s most popular names in the USA. They are available at babyzone as well. Unlike other sites, baby zone does not only list baby namesalphabetically, ...

Bad Baby Names
Most parents do well at naming a baby, but others doom their child for the rest of their life (barring a change by a judge, the Screen Actors Guild, or the witness protection program). Let's check out some bad baby name categories and ...

Sage's Baby Names Ideas
1. Wall-E- from the movie 2. Toby Mac or Toby- the Christian singer 3. Lars- from the book Little Polar Bear 4. Boston- like the Red Sox Boston is his number one choice. If either of us suggests anything else, he reminds us that Boston ...

Unique Baby Names Videos
I will not supplied you with unique baby names here, but I will share you some interesting videos about choosing unique baby names to naming your expected newborn baby. You could leaving any comment here in this post if you like or ...

20 Strangest Celebrity Baby Names
Apparently, some celebrities just don't get enough attention, so they name their kids something interesting to make them stand out.

Top Celebrity Baby Names of 2008
A roundup of 2008’s latest and greatest from the creative baby name capital of the world. Review the year’s most noteworthy celebrity baby name choices so far, and gear up for expected arrivals this spring and summer. ...

Give Me Five Days And Ill Give You the Meaning of the name
M not sure why but I started looking up baby names. Why do people name their boys jadelyn, jade and lynn are girls names. SUSAN FILAN, MSNBC LEGAL ANALYST Absolutely. Yes or no, do you think she s going to end up walking out of that ...

Tips for Choosing a Baby Girl Names
Girl names are so important. You want to choose a name that will serve your new baby girl well in her life. It can be easy to choose a name that sounds cute when your daughter is a baby without thinking about how it will sound when she ...

Baby Names - Hot, Unique, and Common
Unique Baby Names -ideas for those who want to name their babies unusual - very unusual. I won’t put a gender list since you can name it pretty much to a boy and a girl. Some are crazy though, you might want to reconsider. ...

Another GREAT baby name site!
27000 Baby Names, Meanings and Origins at Baby Names World I checked out Maisie, and aside from it being commonly misspelled, everyone who has that name says they like it! I guess that's a good thing! :) (oh, and who is Maisie Mouse? ...

Baby Names & Olympic Swimmers
For parents looking for the perfect name--features a list of some of the most interesting and attractive names from the 2008 Olympic swimmers.

Beautiful Baby Names
I’ve just to blog this! I’ve just got to blog hahah! Why? Because my dearest girlfriend had just safely given birth to a baby boy!! Syukur Alhamdulilah. Ilhan Zharfan. Yes, a baby boy whom I wished to have for my 2nd one but of course ...

Baby Names News Update

Scary Baby Names? Add your input!
Many people I know are popping out babies lately. It seems to go in waves. So part of the fun is finding out what they will name the victim…err child. Usually they are pretty standard. But sometimes you wonder. ...

Poll - Coolest US Olympian Name?
These men are among the 600+ athletes representing the US at the 2008 Summer Olympics:. Adler Volmar (judo; born in Florida); Bershawn Jackson (running; born in Florida); Gerek Meinhardt (fencing; born in California); Jevon Tarantino ...

5 Wonderful Tips To Find The Best Baby Names!
There is so much to think about while selecting the right name for your baby like: your own ideas, your partner’s ideas, your family tradition, the names you have already given to the baby’s sister or brother, etc. ...

Baby names parents go gaga for - The South African Star
Baby names parents go gaga for The South African Star, South Africa - 1 hour ago Research for a baby website has listed the once-popular names that have suffered the most spectacular fall from grace in the past 100 years. ...

Most Endangered British Baby Names
That's according to a list of endangered British baby names on the Web site Gurgle.com, which I stumbled upon thanks to this Reuters UK piece.While some traditional monikers still have an air of cool about them -- like Olivia or Henry ...

How do baby names go out of fashion?
... then a highly undesirable moniker the next? However's lest us not forget, that Clifford would seem like a blessing compared to some of the creations outlined in Michael Moran's 20 strangest baby names post last month.

Rare Baby Names
there are quite a number of suggestions and ideas regarding rare baby names that will overwhelm you after the baby is born.

Baby names - top ten
Just wondered if any of you have deliberately avoided picking 'popular' names for your baby ie those which are usually in the Top 10 or so in the list of Baby names published every year. There are a couple of name me and my hub like but ...

Traditional baby names out as parents follow celebrity trend
Gurgle.co.uk the mother and baby social networking site has found that traditional names such as Norman and Edna are in danger of dying out. Research found that parents are choosing made-up names or those made fashionable by ...

Inventing new baby names.
There are many ways to arrive at the perfect name for your baby. While some parents may opt for a classic name like Eleanor or Matthew, others may prefer something slightly more distinctive and quirky like Lola or Montgomery. ...

Olympic Games Inspired Baby Names
The Olympic Games is the most prestigious sporting event in the world, and as well as inspiring athletes to compete for gold, it’s also inspiring baby names across the world. In China, perhaps to show their pride in hosting the Games, ...

2006 Oklahoma Baby Names
Oklahoma Crossroads has just published an online listing of the most popular baby names from Oklahoma in 2006. The top five girl names: Emma, Madison, Emily, Abigail, and Hannah. The top five boy names: Jacob, Ethan, Joshua, William, ...

Sweden relaxes rules on baby names
Sweden Relaxes Rules on Naming Kids - AOL News :shakehead:

Should bizzare baby names be illegal?
There was a little girl in New Zealand who was embarrassed by her name. She went simply by K. Even her closest friends didn't know the truth. Sure, kids get worked up over silly things, but in this case, it...

Rhymers
I was thinking about the Aiden, Brayden, Caden, Hayden, Jaden thing. Now that more people are noticing it as a batch of rhyming names, it's getting common to hear people rejecting the whole group of names because of it: each name is ...

Olympics and Other Baby Names News

The top ten most creative celebrity baby names revealed
A number of celebrities have become creative with the names they are giving their children, and topping a new list of such names is Jermaine Jackson’s son Jermajesty. In second place is actor Sylvestor Stallone’s son, Sage Moonblood, ...

Celebrity mamas fuel post-baby body blues - MSNBC
Schoch isn’t the only one who has come down with the celebrity baby body blues. A survey by the San Francisco-based Web site Babycenter.com on the impact of ...

Talula Does the Hula from Hawaii the Latest in Bizarre Baby Name Bans
The AP story cited several other baby names in addition to Talula Does the Hula from Hawaii that have been rejected by Australian courts including Fish and Chips, Sex Fruit, and Yeah Detroit. Inexplicably, the names Number 16 Bus ...

Olympic Names - Endurance, Ghyd-Kermeliss-Holly, McJoe, Orinoco
Here are the names of some current Olympic competitors:. Beauty Nazmun Nahar - sprinter from Bangladesh; California Molefe - sprinter from Botswana; Endurance Abinuwa - sprinter from Nigeria; Cleopatra Borel-Brown - shot putter from ...

This is Why You Shouldn't Name a Baby Right After the Drugs Wear Off
Here are a few names that made it into the top 1000 baby names of 2007, and that we're convinced were set in stone before the parents came back down to earth after the baby was born. Boys ADRIAN - There is nothing masculine about this ...

Crete - The Lighter Side! - Stoopid Baby Names
Stoopid Baby Names A mother was sitting on the couch reading a book when one of her children walked up to her and said, "Mummy, why is my name Petal?" The mother replied, "Because when you were born, a petal fell on your head." ...

Which Olympic Names Will Get the Gold?
A reader named Knud compiled a cool list of the most common first names among this year’s Olympic athletes. Here are the top male names, followed by the number of athletes with each name: ...

Beijing mascots inspire baby names
New-born babies in China are paying the penalty for their parents' patriotic fervor, with thousands named after the five mascots of the Beijing Olympics.

Cute, Cool And Unique Baby Name Generator. How To Find Uncommon ...
What are you looking for when choosing a baby name? A trendy sound? Something cute? Cool and unique baby names? Uncommon and unusual baby names? It will become so much part of that little human being, that you will ...

Baby Names News

Miss America Names - Caleche, Jillayne, Osjha, Tangra, Venus
Did you know that there have been Miss Americas named Venus (1944), BeBe (1948), Jacque (1949), Vonda (1965) and Leanza (1993)? Miss America 1926 had the middle name Des Cygne, which she then passed along to her daughter as a first name ...

Baby Names that are "color" names--HELP!
My sister is looking for a baby name that is either a color or the meaning of the name is a color. Her daughter's name is Sienna. She is just thinking about baby #2....what ideas do you have for boy or girl? She has thought of Donovan ...

The Big List of Ridiculous Celebrity Baby Names [with pics]
What do an apple, a camera and the messiah have in common? Correct: they're all the names of celebrity children.

Urban cool baby names
We all have happy memories of growing up either in the big city or small-town America, and the places we live help shape the adults (and parents!) we become. So what about naming your baby after your own home town? ...

Baby names get shorter – and sweeter?
Luca was the most popular boy's name in Switzerland in 2007, ranking high in all four national language regions, with Sara or Sarah the favourite for girls.

Top baby names in the UK
Want to know what the top baby names in the UK were last year? Well, I found these statistics quite interesting. The top ten names for boys in 2007 were: Jack, Thomas, Oliver, Joshua, Harry, Charlie, Daniel, William, James and Alfie. ...

Top 10 Celeb Baby Names - Apple, Pilot, Jermajesty
A disappointing list of the “top ten most creative celebrity baby names so far” was released yesterday by OK! Magazine:. Jermajesty - Jermaine Jackson’s son; Sage Moonblood - Sylvestor Stallone’s son; Weston Coppola - Nicolas Cage’s son ...

Baby Names Update

The Top 100 Baby Names Tell An Interesting Story
It’s interesting what story the top 100 baby names have to tell. Every few years you hear that new name popping up and you immediately know what everyone was watching on TV or who the nation’s hero was in sport a few years back. ...

McNames: Top 10 Most Annoying Baby Names
The ones that really make you puke. These names were picked like scabs from the 100 most popular boy's and girl's names, 2007. Briana; Hunter; Brayden; Hayden; Jaden; Caden; Kaylee; Kayla; Kaitlyn; Brooklyn.

99 Celebrity Couples' Baby Names
Celebrities have started trends and stunned fans with their choices of baby names. Here is a list of 99 couples and the names they selected for their kids. > Get the latest...

2007 Baby Names
Every year the Social Security Administration comes out with their annual list of baby names and their "ranking" in terms of popularity for the year. I've always found this list and SSA website to be pretty fascinating. ...

NameWiki - baby names, family names, boys names, girls names
Name meanings and baby names. Find a name for your baby with popular girl names and top boy names. Research every name in the United States and world with over 1.2 billion names.

Hindu Baby Names And Their Meanings
As you can see, there are many stylish and exquisite Hindu baby names from which to choose. If you are not Hindu though, you may want to check with someone who is for the exact pronunciation of a name. ...

BBC Sport | Sport Homepage | UK Edition
The beautiful language of the ancient world is reflected in the romantic Roman baby names and their meanings. And, as we will see today, these romantic names have come down to us over the centuries and thrill us with their majesty. ...

"creative" baby names
For those of you who missed my post about ridiculous baby names, here it is. On that subject, a woman of my acquaintance announced she was pregnant. I told her I hope she wasn't going to saddle her kid with a name he'd regret later in ...

Pixar Production Babies - Bosco, Nasreen, Sequoia, Vouk, Zazie
Did you know that all Pixar films include a list of Production Babies in the credits? I didn’t either, until Nancy Friedman filled me in. (Thanks, Nancy!) According to The Globe and Mail, Production Babies are those born to anyone at ...

Brooke Burke News: Strangest Baby Names - From Celeb Babies to ...
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Baby Names News

Unusual Baby Names: Good or Bad
FDLReporter writes about Wismoms.com, Celebrities and Unusual Baby Names. Read Article Here.

World of Namecraft
Hit books, movies, tv shows, even songs have launched baby names. But comic books? Video games? Nah. They've always appealed to a niche market, and it's the wrong niche -- adolescent boys rather than moms. Media trends change, though, ...

The most popular baby names
The name game is so much fun! Yet it’s also so important, as your baby will be defined by a name for the rest of his or her life. So what were the most popular baby names in 2007? You may be surprised:. Boys Girls. 1. Aidan 1. Ava ...

Top 10 Spam Names of the Month - July ‘08
The best spam names I spotted in July were:. Blahoslav Landon Cornelius Novis Evangeline Yazzie Gilda Snyder Helga Flint, Isaac C. Church Kieu Petersen Rhoda Wise Sinoj Hoglind Yong RO’Donnell.

Digital age boosts baby name anxiety - Edmonton Journal
Digital age boosts baby name anxiety Edmonton Journal, Canada - 1 hour ago Once a mere reflection of the times, baby names are now considered shorthand for everything from the parents' values to the likelihood of future ...

WEB EXTRA: Top 20 baby names for 2007
1. Emma 2. Sophia (Sofia)

Holy Jolie! Those baby names are so…well…normal
Pencils, mine included, were sharpened for stories of outlandish celebrity baby names. OK, Jolie and partner Brad Pitt didn’t go for “Jack and Jill” exactly, but Vivienne Marcheline was remarkably restrained for the bizarre-baby-name ...

Popular Baby Names In The Uk In 2005
Writen by Tony Luck. Although its popularity is declining, Jack is the most popular boys name again in England and Wales - that's 11 years at the top! However, 14% fewer boys were christened Jack last year, so we could see a change at ...