The couple also has an 18-month daughter named Mick after Mick Jagger.
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When Beau Jessup came up with an idea to help Chinese families name their babies, even she thought it was a bit far-fetched.
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An update on this business. Still going strong!
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A couple in Maharashtra decided to name their baby boy in a unique way. They held an election on June 15, complete with election banners and ballot boxes to decide upon a name.
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The 2020 Tokyo Olympics organizing committee said the name of the games' official mascot will not be taken from the general public but from creative profes
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Found via the American Name Society
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“I texted Ellen and I was like, ‘What do you think?’ She was like, ‘I hate it. I think it’s a terrible name. I was like, ‘Cool.’ She gave me like five names to think about: This, this, this, this, Dusty.”
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Nicholas Soukeras is fighting with his wife Kseniya over naming their first born son Spyridon. He created an online petition asking the web to weigh in on the baby name battle that he tells Yahoo Parenting makes his “blood boil.”
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Flipping heck. I think someone needs to compromise. Or at least find out whether it's even a boy.
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“The main thing is, tell either Eleanor or Alice not to forget to be awesome.”
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I agree, Esther is right in the sweet spot. As is Obama's answer.
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Get this: Old-fashioned baby names are beginning to make a comeback. That was the finding of BabyCenter, a digital resource for parenting and pregnancy, which ...
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Contains shocking* revelations about old-fashioned names, plus reflections on nicknames, outsourcing naming, and the benefits of a well-established name. My favourite part is that the author lives in a town called Library :-) *-ly obvious to anyone reading this, I suspect
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"In a humorous piece for McSweeney’s online, author Bob Powers writes about being a name consultant for "Artisanal Baby Naming." While the piece jokingly exaggerates the importance of a name for future offspring, calling a name "the vocal sequence of syllables that baby—that person—will hear more times than any other word or noise in her lifetime."
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Apparently, now that Jersey Shore is cancelled and she already has experience naming one baby of her own, Snooki has gone into the baby-naming biz—and she's
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Casper and Violet - not bad, actually!
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Pregnant women and mothers have to do so much already that, when it came time to pick my baby's name, I let my partner do it without any input from me.
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Wow! It's like "Don't Tell the Bride" with baby names. I sort of like this idea... but I don't think I could bear to let go of the naming decision.
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Need your help. If I choose your name, My little prince will send you a gift Hint hint: name should be unique, small and should have a great meaning.
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Ellen DeGeneres is a woman of many talents, but did you know that she named Dusty Rose, the daughter of Adam Levine and Behati Prinsloo?
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“Which name, my partner’s favourite or mine?” she wrote on 14 May. “It will definitely be one of these two and we won’t be having a middle name.
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If the Steelers win, the boy name picked will be Benjamin. Baby Latham will be called Thomas if the Patriots win.
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There is understandable appeal in a naming service that is dedicated to finding the best name for your baby, but surely half the joy of expecting lies in the bickering over name choice.
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From a lot of the advice columns and forum posts I've read over the years, I don't think "joy" is the right word. But I agree that paying a specialist isn't necessarily the answer. See also http://www.nancy.cc/2016/05/17/baby-name-consultant/
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X Marks the Spot for Future Celebrity Twins A reader named Alison has kindly sent in an interview with Shannon Bennett, head chef at Melbourne's Vue de Mond and judge of the ABC Delicious Produce A...
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The joy of X; the perils of gambling your naming rights; a girl named after a rugby match; disputed name ownership; and an interactive app for children in the womb. Good finds!
Anna Otto's comment,
July 21, 2014 8:25 PM
Horrors! Never call a rugby league match rugby, you'll have fans screaming for your blood, and rugby league fans are big and scary! ;)
Clare's comment,
July 22, 2014 2:04 PM
Yikes! I've just been reading up about this...I had no idea I was flirting with danger!
Anna Otto's comment,
July 23, 2014 4:57 AM
Haha, I think you got away with it. You can't be from the north, which seems to be only part of England which is into league. Anne from "The Chaser" is from Manchester, and a rugby league fan.
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"The Western lowland gorilla silverback was presented with three arrangements of fruits, nuts, palm leaves and bamboo. Each gift represented one of the following baby names: Nia, which means "purpose," Nneka, which means "mother is supreme/renowned/prominent," and Nyota, which means "star." Whichever display he favoured would be his daughter's new name. He picked Nneka."
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"How about a new way of naming? I was watching television this morning when they reported on a man who had started a website inviting people to help name his daughter."
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"A couple of months ago City Commissioner Scott Maddox told us that if we were to have a boy and name him ‘Scott Maddox Minor’, he’d pay the college expenses."
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"So this just happened at the San Francisco International Film Festival:"
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Ha ha - worth a try, though!
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