"In this fascinating blog, Eleanor Nickerson of britishbabynames.com, following up on yesterday's royal boy post, analyzes just about every realistic possibility for the new royal princess's name, from Alexandra to Alice to Amelia."
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Want to see the biggest baby name debuts of all time? Here's the girls' list, part 2. Inspired by TV characters, movie characters, songs, perfume, and more.
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Fifteen unusual and suddenly-used girls names, including Joyel and Evolet.
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"What is your favorite name from the list? What is one name you love but is too "grand" for a baby? What are your favorite 4 letter names? "
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More K? But of course: simply filter this page by the tag "begins with k".
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" With beard a plenty and a truly hilarious name to match, we visit Worcester County, Massachusetts to highlight the life of Mr. Lament Bacon Corbin, a little-known shoemaker who served two terms in his state's House of Representatives."
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Mention Ace and then snap your fingers a few times, like you forgot what comes next. Someone's bound to chime in with: "Ace Ventura, Pet Detective" a movie about a goofy detective who searches for ...
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Bruce says no. This post makes quite a lot of unproven assumptions, but I stopped counting them.
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Op Robinson Crusoë-eiland in de Chileense Juan Fernández-archipel kwam op vrijdag 13 januari 1939 een kind ter wereld dat om die reden Vrijdag werd genoemd. Ook in Nederland worden kinderen soms vernoemd naar hun geboortedag.
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A look at people named after the (mainly Dutch) days of the week. Thursday Next, anyone?
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Annabell Sage Aramea Annalee Artemis Lane Ava Porscha Beatrix Marie Benjamin Fox Briggs Hugh Caroline Georgia Celeste Avery Charlton Edward Colette Laurette Domynoe Jean-Marie Elliot Mae Fallon Zep...
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And Gretchen Gilligan, Tulley Sue, and more.
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Want to see the biggest baby name debuts of all time? Here's the girls' list, part 1. Inspired by singers, songs, characters, a celebrity baby, a dancer, and more.
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What an interesting way to look at the stats - and there are some truly interesting names in here.
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Anyone else watching True Blood? This week's steamiest scenes (in one of TV's steamiest shows) were between red-hot vamp Eric Northman and his captive, Willa
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Not that we’re trying to influence world events or anything, but should anyone extremely British be on the lookout for [...]
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A good find featured in the Nameberry 9 this week. I'm enjoying the definitions. ("Hard as nails. Call your baby Boudicca and watch her kick the world in the nads, then run off giggling.")
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When Jessica Simpson had her daughter last year, her baby name choice raised a lot eyebrows—Maxwell Drew didn't exactly say girl to most people. But do you
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"Jessica Simpson welcomed her second child today! Her and fiance Eric Johnson are now the proud parents to their second child together; a baby boy named Ace Knute Johnson."
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She's a place name boosted by a sweet 1982 movie. And yet Savannah has a longer history of use than you might guess.
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"Looking for a name tailor-made for you baby born this month? Here are some of the obvious suspects, plus a few with less expected connections."
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A list of boy names that only have one-syllable and can stand alone.
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I'm liking the colourful new look.
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"Ace is a very macho, masculine name, name expert and author Laura Wattenberg from BabyNameWizard.com and NameCandy.com tells omg!."
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To get the taste of the last scoop about this name out of our mouths, here are some more helpful comments.
As usual, the site doesn't respont well to scooping; actual URL is http://omg.yahoo.com/blogs/celeb-news/meaning-behind-jessica-simpson-macho-baby-name-130146972.html
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"Ever since I can remember, my daughter has complained of the name I gave her: Marlo. She's always hated it with a burning passion. She hates that people never read it correctly (they always assume she is "Mario"). More recently, she's been asking if she can get her name legally changed."
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Do treat any snarky comments with the disdain they deserve.
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Er blijkt niet zoiets te bestaan als 'Montessorinamen': de ene school heeft echte jaren '90 voornamen, terwijl de andere conservatief en klassiek aandoet.
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A list of students at two Montessouri schools, circa 1990. Repeats are in bold. Guess which name I'm most excited about? Correct: Hilde. But there are plenty of other interesting ones too.
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Boeken, series en films zijn een rijke inspiratiebron voor aanstaande ouders. Er lopen in Nederland mensen rond met namen als Azraël, Frankenstein, Lambik, Morticia, Pinokkio en Swiebertje.
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I was going to say "this list needs no translation", but that wouldn't be true of some of the more culturally-specific ones. Still, nice list.
For more of this ilk, try filtering this page by the tag "character names".
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" I covered double letter names for girls here... now it's time to cover the boys! There are over 100 less boy double letter names in the Top 1000 for 2012 than girl ones, with 138 before combining spellings (116 after). There's also no real commonality between the boy names like -lynn and -ee are for the girls. That gives us a lot of different names to consider! Not wanting to list all of the 138 names, here are some that jumped out at me:"
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He's part of a cluster of names transformed through the ages. How would the literary Lewis wear in 2013?
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I have a soft spot for Lewis because it's a three-for-one Oxford association. And agreed, Ludovic is also great.
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In this week's Nameberry 9, Appellation Mountain's Abby Sandel focuses on the latest uber-creative choices for girls--Djena, Maiselle and Sterling.
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A lot of lovely and, well, creative ones this week!
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"Our go-to expert on British names, Eleanor Nickerson of the blog British Baby Names, gives us an enlightened and realistic assessment of the possible names if the royal baby is a boy. Princess possibilities will be next on the agenda."
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Much better than most of the speculative gubbins out there on the interwebs.
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"From the Rolling Stone/US Weekly report on the birth of former SF 49er tight end Eric Johnson's second kid with baby mama Jessica Simpson:"
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Well, that's cleared it up.
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