Comments on: Revisiting Celebrity Baby Names Sparrow and Harlow

By: alice

alice — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:40:19 +0000

It’s obvious Joel is a liar! He chose the name because he wanted to be appear ‘cool’ . They all compete on who can come up with the ‘coolest’ most original name. Bronx, Kal-el, Apple, Sparrow, poor children! There are other cool names they could have chosen that are not ridiculous. I for one, like very uncommon old names, i have not heard of one celebrity going with this theme, except Angie Jolie with Vivienne.

Harlow i do like though,but Sparrow? It would have been awsome if they had gone with the theme of old hollywood, and chosen something like Marlon / Brando / Marlo, Gene, Charlton etc. but oh well.

By: Wendy

Wendy — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 02:48:23 +0000

I did think of Jean Harlow…and even the song “Vogue” by Madonna plays in my mind every time I see that name. Harlequin brings to mind the Joker’s mislead lover/side kick from the bat man series.

However, I see Sparrow, and my gut reaction is ‘little brown bird’, course, that may just be my forestry background talking. Something to fight for seems a bit harsh for a baby, sparrow also makes me think of pipsqueak or someone who is small and weak or easily over powered. Not so much hyper masculine.

By: Tracy

Tracy — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:13:44 +0000

All I can think of is “A Boy Named Sue”.

Harlow does make me think Jean Harlow but it also is far to close in sound to Harlot and Harlequin (as in the Romance books). I think if you did a poll most people would say their gut reaction is that Sparrow is a girl’s name.