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Steampunk is having a moment. If you don't know the storytelling behind the style, you might well wonder what all the fuss is about. Why would anybody wear those ridiculous goggles? And what's with the dirigible fixation? I'm going to try to capture the essence and appeal of steampunk for you in 18 baby names. 
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How addicted are you to your laptop and/or smartphone? Most moms are slaves to technology; they're lifelines on days when the kids are extra drai...
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Are you a Steampunk aficionado? Here's Nephele's rich, long list of related choices, from Arronax to Brisco to Zylpha--and some more ordinary names in-between. - baby names
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San Leandro, Calif. — As Russell Peters notes in a comedy routine, some Indian names cross over to America better than others.
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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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Before Siri was the voice in your pocket, she was a traditional Scandinavian pick with a long history. Could she be a bold name for a daughter in 2014?
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"We've all heard of the parents who named their kid Hashtag. That seems over the top, but this list proves that tech inspired names can at least sound useable. P.S.- I consider all of these names to be "Unheard of" so there will be no ranking system today. "
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Poor Iolo, your time will come again!
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What would you name the two anonymous Frenchmen in Louis Daguerre's "Boulevard du Temple" (1838)? Includes a big list of traditional French names!
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My first thought was Jean-Claude and Pierre. Can't go wrong with classics!
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"Name trends don't stand still, and neither do web technologies. I'm happy to announce that the NameVoyager name popularity grapher has been rebuilt from the ground up in a smooth new format that's widely accepted by phones and tablets."
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Exciting news for name-fans with clever mobile internet gadgets.
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I do enjoy these posts looking back over the month and learning about geek associations I never knew existed.
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Did you know that billionaire J. Paul Getty had a grandson with the (middle) name Gramophone?
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Yes, a grandSON. An interesting read.
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"Stephen Hawking is a theoretical physicist and cosmologist. Hawking suffers from ALS, which caused him to lose his voice. He communicates via a computer that generates speech."
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The man's a legend - certainly a scienfitic namesake to consider.
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"My husband was watching an extended preview for the movie Pacific Rim last night and what caught my eye was not the amazing graphics of huge robots and monsters, but the names of the actors and characters in the movie. There are some GREAT finds in this one..."
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A study led by the University of Chicago says keyboard layouts have influenced how people name babies (stock image shown) due to something called the 'Qwerty effect'.
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Slightly old news, but in case you missed it.
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New study: The QWERTY Effect (a bias for letters typed using the right hand) has been influencing U.S. baby name preferences since about 1990.
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That is interesting. Have the keys, and the sounds they stand for, become unconsciously lodged in the corresponding halves of people's brains? The commenters suggest plausible reasons for this effect. This made me try to find exclusively left-handed names. Tara, Cara, Zara, Sara, Wade, Cade, Reese, Vera, Ever, Eve, Eva, Gerard, Trev, Drew, Edward, Edgar, Reg, Greg, Gerda, Ada, Ava, Dara, Carter, Rafe...this is a fun game.
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Lola, Lulu and Luna--these are all actual achievement award names--along with thirty others you might like, maybe even one from your own field. - baby names
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Have you heard of the Reuben awards, the Effie awards, the Nika awards, et al.? Oh, and I've made this picture nice and big because Robert Lindsay (I think that's him, anyway; bit embarrassing if it's not) is great.
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Here are 25 people who have named their computers. Have you named your computer as well?
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Wow - so many names, so many stories. My favourites are Frangus and Thusnelda. Yes, I've named my computers. There was Cuthbert (now retired, hopefully to a tiny hermitage island off the Northumbrian coast) and now there's Clarice (narcissistic, me?).
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"How about design and programming baby names like Axum, Link, Layer, Logo, Pixel, Tag, Ziron or Pascal? Parents can also use gadget and computer names like Acer, Apple, Firefly, Siri or Sony."
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Suggestions worthy of "Hello, My Name Is Pabst"!
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"I've always thought Leica was a super-rad name for a girl. She's a celebrity baby name, as well as the name of a camera brand. Inspired by this, I thought I'd take a look at other camera brand names, and see what I could come up with for the photography-inclined."
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An interesting source of inspiration! Olympus and Sigma, anyone?
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" As you may be able to tell from the images that go with each post, I am a big fan of typography. Most often that means coming up with a font of your own, but today we are going to focus on names of standard fonts. Perfect for the baby of design-nerd parents."
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A great idea! Rockwell, Cambria, Verdana et al are not bad names at all.
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"I have often seen the name Jet for a boys name. What do you think of Jett for a girl?
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Have you used Nameling before? I hadn't, but have just been playing with it a bit. It's a little bit like Nymbler, but will come up with a shorter, finite list of names and a bit more information about them.
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"Parents are searching high and low today for fresh name ideas. With tongue only slightly in cheek, we offer some ideas of places you might not have looked."
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Hmm, some of these have a certain appeal...
And if your appetite has been wet by apples, further reading: http://nameberry.com/blog/apple-of-your-eye
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How many people in the U.S. have gotten the names Telegram and Telegraph?
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Who would've guessed?
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Bram, Edison, Sophronia, and more. If you like steampunk, you may also enjoy:
http://thenamegirl.wordpress.com/2013/11/04/character-of-the-week-steampunk-prince-names/
http://nameberry.com/blog/steampunk-names-victorian-sci-fi