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You can look at them when they are born and decide what name best suits them. I’m guessing not many people do this, otherwise the most popular name for girls and boys every year would be Winston 
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Looking over our thick guide to baby names, my wife and I were startled to find the name “Dijonnaise” listed. In the “origin” column the guide simply said, “Condiment.” Though the mustard-mayo comb...
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"In my darkest hour I found genuine solace in the fact that a one-in-22 shot was enough to keep Noel Edmonds in gainful employment for almost a decade. I tried to convince myself that we stood a pretty good chance."
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It's just a little bit about names, but still. Also, while not intending to trivialise this article, it reminded me of the Gavin and Stacey episode where the baby is christened Neil Noel Edmund Jenkins, and Gavin teases Smithy that he's named his son after Noel Edmonds, to Smithy's great indignation. Ah, good times.
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Pick an injudicious name for your son or daughter and it can hang around their neck like an albatross. Just ask Oliver Pickup's long-suffering brother, Guy
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Oh dear, poor Guy.
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A new tool for choosing baby names based on which website addresses are available is catching on - but has our internet obsession gone too far?
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With son senior it took us just a couple of minutes, but with son junior it took us a week.
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Some good anecdotes about how the author and her friends went about naming their children.
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JOAN, now Baroness, Bakewell, the former “thinking man’s crumpet” is 81.
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Scroll down to about halfway for comments on the writer's well-named family - Allegra Sybilla, Saskia Clemency and Ezekiel - and on the unnamed child court case.
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While it may not be the most important choice parents make, baby-naming is parents' most public decision, and the longest lasting. No it's so high-pressure.
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Musings on the most popular names, how #1 isn't what it used to be, unusual names, jumping on bandwagons with variant spellings, and names being tied to one generation.
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You want to give your your baby a unique name, right?
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Yep, I could yell Clem indefinitely.
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Time magazine columnist Joel Stein thinks back on the decision of his boy's name: Where does it stand now for him, his wife, and Laszlo himself? - baby names
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A fun little piece from Laszlo's father.
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Baby Boomer names are making a comeback. That was a conclusion Baby Center reached when they announced their top-100 list of boys’ and girls’ names for 2013. After studying Baby Center’s statistics...
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A top 40 baby names list from 2013 reveals the continuing popularity of Edwardian maids, Biblical characters, and celebrities when it comes to naming Britain's newborns.
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""Congratulations. In the last thousand years, you’ve found one single Godred who has successfully made it to adulthood. Who knows how many others perished in the playground - cut down in their prime by gangs of vindictive Jasons, Kevins and Darrens?" "
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A fun find via Anna of Waltzing More Than Matilda. This child will be eight by now - I really wonder what his name turned out to be!
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Possessing an unusual name is similar to being unfeasibly tall, in that people believe it is their God-given right to remark on it.
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Land sakes alive, the mystique of picking names has piqued the interest of my Uncle Mort, a 102-year-old, never-say-die kin down in the thicket...
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Of course, what I want to say is: "You idiot! How could you not have done your research and found out that Arthur has leapt dangerously from 82 to 43 on the Office for National Statistics rankings over the last three years. How could you not have scoured the Telegraph births column every day to ensure your chosen name is delicately balanced between the mundanity of "George, a brother for Thomas" and the lunacy of "Zebedee Ebenezer Jay, a brother for Badger, Clementine and Florence". This is amateurism of the first order. I will struggle to be true friends with you if you seriously thought Arthur was a name fashion had forgot."
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Ha! Exactly.
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"My wife just had a baby. A baby boy." Because we are not Premiership footballers nor wannabe celebs, my wife and I decided to err on the side of caution when it came to naming the kid and hand him a solid, unspectacular name. - See more at: http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/garreth-murphy-a-childs-name-shouldnt-be-domain-friendly-30491073.html#sthash.NxQRHyop.dpufb
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Priya Elan: My newborn son has a different surname because I've lengthened it again. Good luck, son
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According to Courier-Post columnist Danny Henley there are any number of sources from which baby names can come.
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Hi everybody. Like expectant parents everywhere, my husband and I are thinking a lot these days about baby names. We bandy names about,...
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Musings on growing up with an unusual name - like others, the author disliked it when young, but came to terms and embraced it when older - and on not revealing the name pre-partum.
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Baby names can be a sensitive subject. After all, whichever names you choose for your children, they’re going to have them for the rest of their lives.
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While I struggled, another Brooke Williams was getting calls from Vogue on my phone.
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A tale of being repeatedly mistaken for a supposedly more successful namesake.
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Johnny Cash was years early! The media mocked our unusual names — but our kids are thriving and better for it
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Big family news. My nephew’s wife had a second baby.
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Thoughts on unisex names, nicknames, place names and spelling. I think it's a fair point that place names are probably less likely to be used by those who live near them, even if the places are perfectly pleasant.
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What's in a baby name? Everything. A child will live with it their entire life, it will appear on their lunchbox, their school books, every form they ever fill in, their drivers licence and their t...
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May be of interest, but some statements are questionable (e.g. the Kormak is "made-up" or London is unheard of), and some urban legends are cited.
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