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Rugby league footballer Chris Heighington, and his partner Sonya, welcomed their son Rocco a few weeks ago. Chris plays for the Cronulla Sharks, and the picture shows him receiving a congratulatory... 
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I'll give this e-book a shout out, as it helped me with a dissertation about Anglo-Saxon names a few years ago. Worth a look for medievalists.
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Australian celebrity baby names are among the wildest and wackiest.. by Anna Otto of Waltzing More Than Matilda
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I recently read that Manchester United footballer Wayne Rooney named his son Klay after Cassius Clay, who is better known as Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay was Ali’s birth name). Although Ali was a gre...
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Exciting to learn that Lansky is a fellow middle-name-user. And a good list of solid role models.
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Maybe you've never heard of Emmaland or Sophialand, but if you're reading this in the United States, there's a better than 90% chance that you live in either one of these two curious nations. The former is made up of the 31 states where 'Emma'...
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Nice summary of name trends in the US now and over the last century.
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"My name is Kelli. I've never really had a strong feeling one way or the other about my name. I know I love it when people call me Kel."
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I'm enjoying this post - it's always interesting to read name enthusiasts' thoughts on their own names. It's also got me wondering...has anyone ever named their daughter Keladry? Must have done :-)
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This series is a subset of Spotlight Names dedicated to names that had the potential to become huge for a certain decade. They represented a certain era well, but for whatever reason never made it ...
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Where did the baby name Bonanza -- a one-hit wonder from 1960 -- come from?
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Interesting - I wasn't expecting this to be a boys' name, but so it is.
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"by Suzi Catchpole There are so many pretty names; the wallflowers, the shy, prim and delicate ones. I love them and am delighted when people use them, but of late, my own lists aren’t populated by the pretty ones. I want them edgy, loaded with pomp, prestige, colourful associations… and even a little arrogance."
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He's a relatively underused Biblical boy name with the easy nickname Zeke. No wonder parents are discovering the Old Testament Zechariah.
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A few months ago, I got all excited when a Facebook friend announced the birth of her son, Zecharias. It later turned out that he was actually Zacharias, and his mother was too tired/excited/high on painkillers to spellcheck. Zacharias is still an exciting name, though. But look! Zechariah is actually the original.
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"Baby names unfairly considered dated. By Angela Mastrodonato of Upswing Baby Names."
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Unfair is the word. Some of these are a little dated, but others I hadn't realised had gone away.
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The most popular boy names that start with a particular letter of the alphabet.
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Some more invaluable data. What strikes me most is how soon most letters run into really unusual names when you separate them out like this.
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Hip-hop artist Urthboy, otherwise known as Tim Levinson, and his wife Anna, welcomed their second child in mid-May, and have named their daughter Jetta Joanie. Urthboy released a well-received albu...
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Welcome, Jetta, Belle, Mila, and Phoebe!
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In an effort to connect with its customers, Coca-Cola is going the way of the personalized-pencil kiosk at the mall, and offering bottles with customers' names
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As part of its new marketing campaign, the beverage giant is printing popular first names on labels of Coke, Diet Coke and Coke Zero. But already, there's a backlash from people left feeling excluded.
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Naming drinks bottles: a controversial subject.
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A round up of UK birth announcements from this week:
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Hurrah, I've caught up with the last few days (except for the Dutch and Portuguese sites; I'll tackle them another day). Let's celebrate with some great British names, including Jude Jeremiah Westley, Katherine Millicent May, and more.
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T. writes: I've been reading your blog for years, but never thought I'd write in since I had our names all picked out. We just found out yesterday that we are having a baby girl due in early Novemb...
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To Nola or not to Nola?
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She's a tragic Greek princess and a literary heroine. Now that Cassandra has left the US Top 100, is it the perfect time to consider this name?
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Lovely name. I feel an urge to reread 'I Capture the Castle' coming on.
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The New York Knicks forward and his wife Alexis have chosen Alijah Carsares Stoudemire for their fourth child, his rep confirms to PEOPLE exclusively....
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Welcome, Alijah!
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The popularity graphs now include the 2012 baby name data.
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If you like graphs, you'll like this.
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Here are the names given to five boys USA wide*****Alexius- Form of the Greek Alexios- given to five Byzantine emperors. Another way to get to Alex.Arne- Both a German diminutive of Arnold and Old...
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Why hello Moss, we've just seen you in the Arctic on Nameberry, and here you are! Also, hello Gregor and Arne, why are there not more of you?
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French names newly chic in Paris and ready for export.
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Qu'ils sont jolis! I'm pleased to see Clemence here, as it's a recent crush of mine.
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"So, I'm playing a game of Sequence with my daughter while brainstorming on what my next post will be about. When she plays a card and says "four of clovers" it hits me. Names are everywhere around you and always within reach."
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Interesting source of names - from Ace and Jack to Telesina and Abyssinia.
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Welcome to Rocco, Brody, Harrison, Francis, Matan, Hugo, and Caleb!
(And praise be for not one but two pictures of butch men in pink shirts holding tiny babies.)