Category Archives: Baby Names from Sports
World Cup Baby Names – Fifa, Bafana, Soccer City
The 2010 World Cup, currently underway in South Africa, has been inspiring South African parents to bestow World Cup-themed baby names.
In Johannesburg, a baby girl was named Fifa after the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the body that governs international soccer.
A set of twins also born in Johannesburg was named Ke Nako and Soccer [...]
Also posted in Baby Name Trends, Baby Names, Baby Names from Places, Boy Names, Girl Names, Meaningful Baby Names, Unique Baby Names Tagged bafana, fifa, ke nako, mexico, savious, soccer city
Unique American Baby Names of 2009 (Boys’ Edition)
A couple of weeks ago, I published lists baby boy names and baby girl names that ranked outside of the SSA’s official top 1,000, but were still given to 100+ babies in the U.S. in 2009.
Since then, I’ve had time to peruse the rest of the names on the SSA’s full list–those 12,811 boy names [...]
Also posted in Baby Names, Baby Names from Literature, Baby Names from Music, Baby Names from Religion, Boy Names, Unique Baby Names Tagged amillion, brandonlee, bronx, caliber, catcher, chaos, cobain, court, crimson, danzig, epic, espn, famous, fenway, furious, gamble, gehrig, jetli, kingdavid, kingjames, million, money, myheir, myking, myson, notorious, pilot, polo, raider, reydavid, reznor, rye, samurai, seven, shooter, siranthony, sirmichael, smith, supreme, trapper, trigger, trillion, tuff, vanderlei, vedder, victorhugo, wanderlei, wesson, ziggy
Baby Names from Hockey
A reader named Elizabeth has sent me a rather cool list of hockey-inspired baby names. She writes:
I’m a name enthusiast and a hockey fanatic, and my husband and I have been tossing around the idea of naming our son after hockey players.
They haven’t seen any lists of hockey names for babies, though, so they decided [...]
The Baby Name LeBron – Not So Cool After All