Category Archives: Baby Name Stories
Baby Named After Hurricane Andrew
Most of the hurricane-inspired baby names I know of (e.g. Alicia, Gloria, Hazel) were given to girls. So I had to end the series with a boy. :) Hurricane Andrew hit Florida on 24 August 1992. It ended up demolishing Homestead Air Force Base. Luckily, Kevin Hicks–who had been stationed at Homestead–was off the base [...]
Baby Named After Hurricane Elena
On 30 August 1985, while Hurricane Elena was threatening the Mississippi coast, Cheryl Brimage of Biloxi, Mississippi, gave birth to a baby girl at Biloxi Regional Medical Center. The baby, born four days late, was named Elena. “The baby waited on the hurricane, so I just had to name her Elena,” Cheryl noted. (The mother [...]
Baby Named After Hurricane Isabel
A baby born just after midnight on 18 September 2003 at Sentara Leigh Hospital in Norfolk, Virginia, was named after the approaching Hurricane Isabel. The hurricane, which entered Virginia later that day, went on to become one of the costliest disasters in the state’s history. Source: “Residents Commemorate, Cope with Storm.” Virginian-Pilot 20 Sept. 2003: [...]
Baby Named After Hurricane Alicia
On the night of 17 August 1983, a baby girl was born to Rachelle and Kenneth Sanders at St. Mary’s Hospital in Galveston, Texas. Rachelle had already picked out a name, but changed her mind after nurses suggested she name her baby after the approaching Hurricane Alicia. The hurricane made landfall near Galveston just a [...]
Babies Named After Hurricane Gloria
Two baby girls born in Virginia while Hurricane Gloria was passing through (on 27 September 1985) were named after the storm. One of the babies belonged to Linda Cowell of Newport News. “Everyone in the shelter was saying if you go into labor, you’ve got to name her Gloria,” she said. And so she did. [...]
Baby Named After Hurricane Hazel
A post on hurricane names over at The Stir reminded me of a few hurricane-inspired baby names that I know of. Hazel, for instance. Hurricane Hazel struck Myrtle Beach, South Carolina on 15 October 1954. The next day, a Rock Hill newspaper reported that a doctor had been “called out and delivered a baby” in [...]
Trump Named Daughter Tiffany After Jewelry Store
Trump Tower, located on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, was completed in late 1983 thanks in part to a $5 million deal with Tiffany & Co. to purchase the unused air space above their flagship store next door. On 13 October 1993, almost a decade later, Donald Trump and Marla Maples had a baby girl they [...]
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Jockey Names Daughter After Horse
On 7 February 2010, with over 20,000 people watching, Irish jockey Richard Hughes won the McDowell Signature Indian Derby at Mahalaxmi Race Course in Mumbai. He was riding a filly named Jacqueline. After the race, he was quoted as saying: “You know what, my wife gave birth a couple of days back and I named [...]
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Baby Named After Ship’s Doctor and Captain
The SS La Guardia left New York on 30 May 1950 for a month-long trip to the Mediterranean under the command of Capt. Hugh L. Switzer. About a week before it returned to New York, Mrs. Gertrude Segelman of Spring Valley, NY, gave birth to a baby boy with the help of the ship’s surgeon, [...]
Baby Born During Cooking Class, Named After Barley