Category Archives: Baby Name Stories
Baby Named for Olympic Snowboarder Torah Bright
A Tasmanian couple named their baby girl Torah in honor of Australian snowboarder Torah Bright, who had won the women’s snowboard halfpipe event in Vancouver just before the baby was born.
The baby’s parents had seen Torah’s name in the newspaper a few weeks prior to the birth. They liked it, but couldn’t decide if [...]
Olympic Skier Chemmy Alcott Named After Sophia Loren (Kinda)
British Alpine skier Chimene “Chemmy” Alcott was born in London in 1982. She told the story of her unusual first name to The Independent back in 2006. Here’s what she said:
My mother is tall with long dark hair, green eyes, very chiselled features, and everyone used to say that she looked like Sophia Loren. So [...]
Dad’s Computer Algorithm Spits Out So-So Baby Name
Over the weekend, I read Renee Moilanen’s funny account of her husband attempting “a more mathematical approach to baby naming” after all other methods had failed.
First, he had us each write down names that appealed to us. Second, my husband categorized our choices using three different baby name books to determine that we wanted a [...]
Siblings Named Mister, E and Yo
Australian artist/engineer Natalie Jeremijenko has three children:
Mister Jamba-Djang Vladimir Ulysses Hope (girl)
E Harper Nora (girl)
Yo Xing Heyno Augustus Eisner Alexander Weiser Knuckles (boy)
Mister was born in 1987 to Jeremijenko and her then-boyfriend, an Australian rock musician. She goes by “Jamba-Djang” now. Jeremijenko had been “reading and loving Nabokov and Joyce at the time,” and admits [...]
Also posted in Baby Names, Boy Names, Girl Names, Unique Baby Names | Tagged dalton, e, mister, natalie, yo
Family Tree Baby Names – Think Substance, Not Style
If you were given a list of baby names and told to choose one, you’d probably make your selection based on style. Makes sense, right? Without any other information, that’s about all you could do.
This is what makes plucking a baby name off the family tree tricky. Many of the names on our trees [...]
Also posted in Baby Name Advice, Baby Names, Baby Names from Family, Meaningful Baby Names | Tagged asra, grace, otis, shibli
American Men with Presidential Names
Over at the New York Times photojournalism blog Lens, Patrick Witty has just finished a series of blog posts about New York-area males with presidential names. In one of his posts, he says:
Some of the presidential doppelgängers I met over the past nine months were named to honor the great men who have occupied the [...]
Also posted in Baby Names, Baby Names from Family, Baby Names from Politics, Boy Names | Tagged adams, bush, Coolidge, grant, hoover, jefferson, kennedy, lincoln, men, nixon, obama, washington
Baby Names from Foreign Cultures and Countries – Yea or Nay?