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Want to Name Someone Else?s Baby? Here?s Your Chance!
2009-08-07 09:54:00
Lavonne Drummond of Arkansas is auctioning off the right to name her seventh child. In an interview with FOX News, she mentions that her husband does not yet know their unborn son's name is up for grabs on eBay. Bidding started at $150. Right now, the high bid is $590. Drummond ...
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Advice from Emily Post - How to Name Your Baby
2009-08-07 09:54:00
This is what Emily Post 's Pocket Book of Etiquette, published in 1967, has to say about choosing a baby name: Avoid giving the baby a name that is too long or difficult to pronounce clearly or that forms an unpleasant combination with the last name. Choose instead a simple or biblical ...
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Baby Name Needed - Name for Linden and Everett?s Sibling
2009-07-21 21:38:00
Britta her husband Morgan live in Sweden. They're expecting their third baby in a couple of months and would like some help choosing a name. They already have two sons, Linden and Everett, so they'd like the baby's first name to be similar in style to these. Britta also mentions: We ...
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Would You Sell the Right to Name Your Baby?
2009-07-21 21:38:00
Several years ago, Melissa Heuschkel of Connecticut sold the right to name her fourth baby to online casino GoldenPalace.com. In exchange for about $15,000, she named her daughter "GoldenPalace.com" (nn Goldie). If a stranger offered you double that -- $30,000 -- for the right to name your next child, what would ...
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French Baby Names - Heloise, Lancelot, Quitterie, Victor
2009-07-18 09:35:00
While cleaning out my bookmarks the other day, I rediscovered this post on French names from francophile blog Polly-Vous Francais. It contrasts the names found in the birth and death announcements of a French newspaper. Here's a sampling: Male Female Births Anselme Edouard Guillaume Hipployte Hugo Lancelot Louis Timothée Victor Vladimir Deaths Albert Emile Gabriel Jacques Jean Paul Pierre Roger Vincent Yves Births Anaïs Béatrix Héloïse Hermine Irène Margaux Mathilde Noémie Quitterie Violaine Deaths Andrée Denise Gilberte Gladys Huguette Jacqueline Jeanne Marguerite Marie Michèle Which set do you like better -- birth announcement names or death announcement ...
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Baby Name Needed - Middle Name for Lucinda
2009-07-16 15:32:00
A reader named Andria would like a middle name for Lucinda. The baby's last name will be a T-name similar to Kendall. I tried to come up with suggestions that (like Lucinda) are old-fashioned and Latin-based. Also, because Lucinda and the surname share several consonants, I looked for names that added ...
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Two-Hit Wonder Baby Names - Letters A and B
2009-07-16 03:31:00
The A- and B-names below have ranked among the 1,000 most popular baby names in the United States only twice: Girls Boys Adriene (1962, 1967) Agusta (1882, 1884) Aili (1909, 1910) Alcie (1880, 1886) Alethea (1973, 1974) Alexina (1881, 1882) Almedia (1881, 1885) Aloma (1942, 1943) Alwina (1882, 1886) Alys (1880, 1910) Ama (1881, 1885) Amalie (1881, 1883) Amma (1881, 1887) Anastacia (1880, 1896) Angeles (2003, 2004) Anie ...
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Baby Name Needed - Name for Harvey?s Sibling
2009-07-14 15:29:00
A reader named Kim has a son named Harvey James. She's expecting her second baby (gender unknown) this fall. The baby's last name will be similar to Landsberg. She and her husband like different types of names, so let's tackle one gender at a time. For a girl, I like (stodgy?) old ...
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Celebrity Baby Names - Adele and Roman
2009-07-14 15:29:00
Actor Molly Ringwald and her husband welcomed fraternal twins last week. The twins' names are Adele Georgiana and Roman Stylianos. They also have a 5-year-old daughter named Mathilda Ereni. Other celeb twins born within the past year include Marion and Tabitha, Jesse and Journey, Max and Bob, Dolly and Charlie, Harper and Finley, ...
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The Worst Initials Ever - SIK, DIE, DED, ROT, EEW
2009-07-13 15:28:00
Warning: Explicit language. Over the weekend I brainstormed for bad initials. Here are the worst, grouped by theme: Insults APE ASS BAD BUM COW DIM DOG DUL DUM ERR FAT FEO FOE GAF HAG HOG LUG NAG NUT OAF PIG RAT SAP SUC SUK SUX Evils EGO FIB GYP HEL HEX SIN WAR Initialisms DOA DUI DWI KKK LOL LSD OMG OPP PMS RIP SOB TKO WTF Exclamations BOO! DOH! DUH! EEK! EWW! HUH? ICK! NAH... UGH! YUC! YUK! Ethnic Slurs JAP WOP YID Sexual Slurs FAG FEM GAY HOE HOR Substances CUM FAT GAS GOO GUC GUK JIZ MUD MUC MUK OIL PEE PIS POO POT PUS Biological AIL ASS BUM BUT COC COK DED DEF DIC DIK DIE FLU FUC FUK GAG GUT ILL JUG KOC KOK NUM NUT OLD POX ROT SEX SIC SIK TIT ZIT Emotional CRY IRE MAD SAD SOB WOE Sound-It-Out DVS: dee + vee + ess = "devious" NME: en + em + ee = "enemy" NVS: en + ...

Ungodly Saint Names - Eustochium, Fronto, Smaragdus, Walburgis
2009-07-10 15:27:00
While looking for male and female saint names that would appeal to modern parents, I discovered many names that belong at the other end of the spectrum. But a post full of hundreds of horrible-yet-holy names? That would've taken up quite a bit of space. So I whittled it down ...
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It?s Not Zowie Bowie, It?s Duncan Jones
2009-07-10 15:27:00
Those of us who follow celebrity baby names know all the oldies: Moon Unit, Dweezil, Ahmet, Diva...Fifi, Peaches, Little Pixie...River, Rain, Joaquin, Liberty, Summer...and, of course, Zowie. But, as it turns out, David Bowie 's son Zowie is not really named Zowie. His legal name is Duncan Zowie Hayward Jones . He went ...

Baby Name Needed - Girl Name for Baby #4
2009-07-10 15:27:00
A reader named Kelly is expecting her fourth child at the end of August, and she'd like some help choosing a name: We are looking for a girls name that meshes with the rest of our children's names. We have a Meghan Grace, Luke Michael and Madeline Jane. We wouldn't ...
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Unusual Real Names - Cedella, O?Brien, Smedley, Wolfdietrich
2009-07-10 15:27:00
Another batch of ten very uncommon names: Apichatpong Weerasethakul (born in 1970) - Thai film director. Cedella "Ciddy" Marley Booker (born in 1926) - mother of Bob Marley. Gumersindo Laverde Ruiz (born in 1835) - Spanish writer. Lodowicke Muggleton (born in 1609) - English religious thinker. MaVynee Betsch (born in 1935) - environmentalist and activist. O'Brien ...
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How Will Brüno (the Movie) Affect Bruno (the Name)?
2009-07-10 15:27:00
In 2006, Sacha Baron Cohen introduced the world to Borat -- a journalist from Kazakhstan who did shockingly offensive things while traveling the U.S. in search of Pamela Anderson. This Friday, he'll be introducing the world to Brüno -- a journalist from Austria who does shockingly offensive things while traveling the ...
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Baby Name Needed - Boy Name that Starts with R
2009-07-07 15:26:00
A reader named Anna is expecting a baby boy. His middle name will be Anderson. She'd like his first name to begin with the letter R. The baby's father's name is Rei, so I'm not sure if he and Anna are looking for another short R-name, but I threw a few ...
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Significant Baby Names vs Insignificant Baby Names
2009-07-07 15:26:00
I was just reading a transcript of a recent Voice of America broadcast, "More US Parents Think Beyond Most Popular Names for Babies." No revolutionary baby-naming information to be found, but one thing did catch my attention. The broadcast included mini-interviews with about a dozen parents. In several of the families, ...
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Synesthesia and Multicolored Baby Names
2009-07-07 15:26:00
Have I ever mentioned that I'm a synesthete? People who have synesthesia experience a sort of "mixing" of the senses. For instance, one synesthete might see the color green whenever he hears a harpsichord. Another might smell apple pie whenever she touches velvet. Sounds strange, I know...but I'm not making this ...
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Name in the News - Dariel
2009-07-07 15:26:00
Brand-new NYPD officer Dariel Firpo made his first arrest just minutes after graduating from the Police Academy on Thursday. (He was leaving the ceremony when he witnessed a robbery in progress.) A police spokesman said the arrest "may be the fastest police action upon graduation in department history." I'm not familiar with ...
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Two-Hit Wonder Baby Names - Letters C and D
2009-07-03 21:23:00
The C- and D-names below have ranked among the 1,000 most popular baby names in the United States only two times: Girls Boys Carlota (1887, 1892) Celie (1880, 1887) Cena (1881, 1883) Chaney (1880, 1888) Channie (1884, 1885) Chante (1977, 1993) Charlotta (1880, 1884) Chelsy (1991, 1992) Cherelle (1986, 1989) Cherilyn (1972, 1975) Chimere (1980, 1981) Ciarra (1995, 1997) Cicely (1973, 1974) Cielo (2000, 2001) Ciji (1983, ...
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White House Names - Astri, Mariano-Florentino, Rahm, Trooper
2009-07-03 21:23:00
Several days ago, a list of nearly 500 White House employees (and their salaries!) was posted at the official White House blog. I thought these twenty employee-names were the most interesting: Astri B. Kimball (75k) Dagoberto Vega (75k) Ferial Govashiri (45k) Gannet L. Tseggai (65k) Howli J. Ledbetter (36k) Jamia S. Jowers (50k) Karine Jean-Pierre (75k) Mariano-Florentino Cuellar ...
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Baby Name Needed - Boy or Girl Name for Aspen?s Sibling
2009-07-03 09:23:00
A reader named Kendra, who has a daughter named Aspen , is now expecting a second baby (gender unknown). She'd like the baby's first name to: Be "different yet familiar" Be easy to spell Start with something other than A, K or M End with something other than A or N She'd like the middle name ...
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Unusual Baby Names - Bunnatine, Lilialyce, Sunshine, Rainn
2009-07-03 09:23:00
Here's another group of interesting names I've spotted over the past few months: Adonijah Strong Welch (born in 1821) - U.S. Senator from Florida. Bunnatine "Bunny" Greenhouse (born ca. 1944) - Halliburton whistleblower. Chamintney Stovall Thomas (born in 1899) - Alabama Women's Hall of Fame* inductee. Holiday Reinhorn (born in 1964) - fiction writer ...
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What Comes After Kobe?
2009-07-01 21:21:00
Kobe is the 403rd most popular baby name in the nation right now. Which name happens to be 404th? I won't tell you -- but if you're at all familiar with basketball, the name probably popped into your head as soon as you read the title of this post. P.S. Here's the answer.
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Spam Names from May & June ?09
2009-07-01 21:21:00
Here are the best spam names I've seen in the past couple of months: Arlington Kolina Arttu McCutcheon Beulah Suggs Cornell Horowitz Delmar Sinclair Eugenia Grimm Evita Erika Fleta Hertha Griffith Jewel Hillard Huntington Jinesh Funk Kory Feldman Krissis Hamel Lincoln Dickens Orville Cline Randal Fitch Seaforth Martinex Shalonda Dulcie Violet Crouch Zrimsek Glascoe
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Baby Name Needed - Girl Name that Goes with Abel
2009-06-30 21:20:00
I reader named Bonny writes: We are already decided on a boys' name, but just can't come up with a good girl's name. Our firstborn is Abel Zachary. We want a girls' name that doesn't clash with Abel. So far we like these girls' names: Evangelina, Arabella, Amethyst, Isabelle, Olivia, River, ...
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Name Sighting - Pabst
2009-06-30 21:20:00
The winner of this year's World's Ugliest Dog Contest is Pabst -- a boxer-mix with a under-bite who happens to have (what I think is) a fantabulous doggy-name. According to the contest website, Pabst's owner chose the name because Pabst has a "bitter beer face." Love it. :)

1 Sentence, 50+ Female Names
2009-06-27 21:19:00
I finished reading The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos earlier this week. On the penultimate page, I spotted: Floating on a sea of tender feelings, under a brilliant starlit night, he fell in love again: with Ana and Miriam and Verónica and Vívian and Mimi and Beatriz ...
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Twilight Baby Names - Carlisle, Edward, Esmé, Rosalie
2009-06-27 21:19:00
Isabella and Jacob are already two of the top baby names in the nation. Emmett and Jasper have been on the rise since the 1970s. Alice began picking up steam a few years before Twilight was first published. But the other major Twilight names -- Carlisle, Edward , Esmé and Rosalie ...
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Unusual Real Names - Catulle, Dusolina, Meridel, Persifor
2009-06-27 21:19:00
I haven't posted a batch of unusual-but-real names in quite a while: Adoniram Judson (born in 1788) - the first Protestant missionary sent from North America to Myanmar. Catulle Mendès (born in 1841) - French writer. Dusolina Giannini (born in 1902) - Italian-American soprano. Hiester Clymer (born in 1827) - politician from Pennsylvania. Isagani R. ...
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