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Thursday, July 20, 2006
Baby Name Search News
* When it comes to names, old is new againHe 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
* The
Culprit
The name can’t be in the top 10 baby names from the last five years. We
want her name to be a little more uncommon. We’d like it to be a longer
name so that we can shorten it to a nickname. That way, she can be a
child when she’s young and
* Giving fashion a
spin: LP covers make unique handbags
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
* Finding
a name for colt raises $700 for Adams County SPCA
Morgan pored over a book of baby names to come up with her entry. "I
was looking for something with 'melody' in it. That's the one that
stuck out to me," she said. "Mac" is Scottish for son and "melodia"
means melody, Morgan's
* The
Leslie family
Megan's assistance started the night they found out Cindy was
expecting, when she went on the Internet to search for baby names. She
also helped decorate the nursery and made sure all the clothes were
washed and put away. "She did so much more
* Special
delivery: America's most popular baby names
The annual announcement of America's most popular baby names has
quickly become a Social Security tradition, and the listing of those
names is now one of the most popular features on Social Security's Web
site at www.socialsecurity.gov. In 2005, the
* Seeing
the Future Through Web Searches
They typed in "Alaskan cruise" because they were thinking about taking
one or "baby names" because they were planning on needing one. If
somebody were to add up all this information, it would produce a pretty
good notion of where the world was headed
* The
Daily Hardships of Parenthood
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
* The
D-List's Dart-Wielding Doyenne
And TomKat's taste in baby names? "It's ree-diculous. . . . That
little girl is going to have to spend her whole life telling people,
'It's Hebrew for princess.' They should've just named her
Hebrew-for-Princess Cruise." Okay, okay, she's kind of mean
And once again, EGG is coming to the rescue with a helpful online ‘Favourite Baby Names’ database, compiled with the help of website visitors. Going live on the EGG website today, the database page invites mums-to-be to share their