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Pop culture baby name game, 2010

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Know what today is? It’s Britney Spears’ birthday! (Come on, you didn’t already know that?)

So today is the perfect day to start playing the Pop Culture Baby Name Game.

What’s that? It’s a game in which we try to predict which pop culture-inspired baby names will appear on the SSA’s official baby name list for the first time in 2010. Danity and Daughtry made it for the first time in 2007, Obama and Palin in 2008, the infamous Renesmee in 2009…which pop culture baby names will make their debut in 2010?

Think back to notable occurrences of 2010 and late 2009. Think about movies, music, books, video games, sports, politics, products, and whatever else made headlines and/or caught your attention. What brand-new baby names might these things have inspired?

Here are some possibilities I’ve already blogged about:

Another that has since come to mind is Etsy, which looks and sounds like Betsy with the B chopped off.

What other potential names can you think of? (Remember — oddball names like Chachi and Darth have made the SSA’s list in years past, so don’t be afraid to think outside the box on this!)

Baby name story: Sarah McCain Palin

Mark Ciptak of Tennessee has named his third child Sarah McCain Palin after John McCain and Sarah Palin.

Alarmingly, he did it behind his wife’s back. She apparently signed her name to the paperwork without realizing her husband had written “Sarah McCain Palin” in the spot where “Ava Grace” should have been.

He said:

We actually came up with the name Ava Grace, and I secretively went and got another set of forms to send to (Social Security officials and the Tennessee Department of Health), and as of this time, she (Layla) still doesn’t realize what I’ve done. I haven’t broken the news to her yet.

As of right now, I’m just trying to get up enough nerve to tell her what I’ve done and hope for the best. I hope I’m still living to tell the tale tomorrow. She thought it was a done deal with Ava Grace.

After he did tell her, later the same day, he said:

I don’t think she believes me yet. It’s going to take some more convincing.

Interestingly, Ciptak went on to say that he believed they’d be changing the name back to Ava: “[T]hat is more than likely going to be it, unless my wife wants to keep what I officially named (her).”

He’d been motivated to choose the name “Sarah McCain Palin” because he wanted to do his part to support the McCain/Palin campaign.

(Incidentally, their two older children are named Annika and Isaiah.)

Your thoughts on this?

Source: Carter County man surprises wife, names baby Sarah McCain Palin