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Popularity of the baby name Dot


Posts that mention the name Dot

Could you get free stuff for your name?

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Certain names come with unexpected benefits.

For instance, admission to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston is free to anyone named Isabella. (That is, anyone named Isabella who remembered to apply for her museum card ahead of time.)

Domino’s Pizza gave free food to families with babies named Brooklyn to promote the BRKLYN pizza in early 2008. In 2004, the company did the same thing for families with babies named Dorothy/Dot to promote Domino’s Dots.

Travelodge in Britain, Ireland, and Spain gave free rooms to married couples named Mary and Joseph during the 2007 Christmas season.

Do you know of any other freebies you can (or could at one time) get for having a particular name?

P.S. The museum is holding its annual “Calling All Isabellas!” event on April 21 this year.

Free Domino’s Pizza for a baby named Brooklyn

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Domino’s Pizza wants to give free pizza to any Leap Day babies named Brooklyn, in honor of Domino’s BRKLYN (Brooklyn-style pizza).

The family of the first baby named Brooklyn born in the continental U.S. on Leap Day (February 29, 2008) will receive $1,000 in Domino’s gift certificates.

All other babies named Brooklyn born on February 29th will receive a “Brooklyn-style pizza party.”

In both cases, any spelling of the name is acceptable.

Domino’s Pizza spokesperson Jenny Fouracre added:

Leap Year babies beat the odds by being born on February 29, a day that rolls around only once every four years. We think they are very special and deserve a memorable birthday with a good story about how they were named. What a lucky group — they will be 10 when most people born the day before or after them are 40.

Domino’s held a similar promotion four years ago for babies named Dot and Dorothy, in honor of Domino’s Dots.

Update, March 2008: The winner, a baby girl named Brooklyn Elizabeth Threinen, was born on Leap Day in Scottsdale, Arizona. (Dominos.com)

Source: Domino’s ‘Leaps’ at Chance to Welcome Newborns Named Brooklyn [pdf]
Image: Adapted from Domino’s pizza by Vee Satayamas under CC BY 2.0.