Category Archives: Baby Names
Baby Name Needed – Boy Name for Hudson’s Brother
A reader named Tamela wrote to me yesterday. She has one son named Hudson and is expecting her second son in a couple of months. She’d like some name suggestions for baby boy #2.
Hudson comes from a surname, so the first place I’d look is other surnames. Here are a few ideas:
Archer
Baxter
Bennett
Blake
Carlisle
Carter
Everett
Fletcher
Marlow
Mitchell
Maxwell
Norris
Parker
Ramsey
Reeve
Ridley
Roscoe
Sawyer
Spencer
Tate
Tanner
Thatcher
Travis
Westley
(At first I [...]
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Musical Baby Name – Hally from “Listen to the Mocking Bird”
“Listen to the Mocking Bird” (1855) was one of Septimus Winner’s most popular songs. Between 1855 and 1905, about 20 million copies of the song were sold.
Time’s 1937 Homage to Winner mentions:
Many an ante-bellum baby was named after Hally, the fictitious girl over whom the song moons:
I’m dreaming now of Hally, sweet Hally, sweet [...]
Also posted in Baby Name Trends, Baby Names from Music, Girl Names Tagged hallie, hally, harriet, henrietta, septimus, steven
More from England and Wales – Honey and Brandon-Lee
Here are two names that piqued my interest as I read through the baby name rankings for England and Wales yesterday.
Honey
Honey was the 190th most popular baby girl name on the list. Parents have also been using alternative spellings of Honey, and throwing (pouring?) Honey into compound names. Here are all the Honeys I [...]
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Popular and Unique Names in England and Wales, 2008
Don’t get too excited — these aren’t the top names for 2009. (If only!)
Why am I posting old news? Because I recently found a more complete version of the 2008 list that goes all the way down to baby names used in England and Wales just three times. So, the top-ranked names may be [...]
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From Video Games to Baby Names – Raiden, Kain, Rinoa, Kairi
Dr. Cleveland Evans isn’t a gamer. Nevertheless, he’s written an insightful article for The Omaha World-Herald about baby names that have been inspired by video game characters, such as:
Kain, a male character from the Legacy of Kain series.
Rinoa, a female character from Final Fantasy VIII.
Kairi, a female character from Kingdom Hearts.
Raiden, a male character from [...]
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