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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.