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Namestorm #4 – Baby Names for Beer Lovers
Miller Lyte gives me bitter beer face. It’s just a terrible baby name. After I discovered that one, I wondered: is it even possible to come up with tasteful beer-inspired baby names?
Luckily, it is.
Mary
American brewster Mary Lisle, the first known brewster in the United States, started operating her late father’s brewhouse in Philadelphia in [...]
Posted in Baby Name Advice, Baby Name Inspiration, Baby Names, Boy Names, Girl Names Also tagged adam, david, ermal, frederick, john, joseph, louis, mary, maximilian, miller, william
Baby Names Needed – Classy, Quirky Names for Twins
A reader named Abbie has four children: Leo Sebastian, Henry Edward, Jasper Alaric, and Eliza Vivienne. She recently learned that she is expecting twins (congrats!) and would like some help coming up with baby names–especially boy names. She writes:
Lucy Matilda and Nora Penelope will be the twins’ names if they are both girls.
We like [...]
Posted in Baby Names, Baby Names Needed, Baby Names from Literature, Boy Names, Girl Names, Middle Names Also tagged abbie, alaric, albert, alfred, amory, arthur, avery, bernard, bertram, cedric, charlie, chester, daisy, dexter, duncan, edith, edward, eliza, ernest, felix, fitzgerald, frederick, henry, honoria, jasper, leo, lewis, lorraine, lucille, lucy, marion, marjorie, matilda, milo, nelson, nolan, nora, owen, penelope, percy, philip, roland, roscoe, rosemary, rupert, sebastian, simon, stella, stuart, violet, vivienne, walter, warren
A Rose by Any Other Name – Burnaby, Natali, Zelda Lloyd
Sure, a rose by just any other name would not smell as sweet. But what if the name were as cool as “Madame Azélie Imbert” or “Victor Emmanuel”?
Other intriguing rose names I found in the EveryRose.com database include:
Abraham Darby
Admired Miranda
Betty Uprichard
Burnaby
Clementina Carbonieri
Cyril Fletcher
Dagmar Spath
Dainty Bess
Edna Marie
Eustacia
Fiona’s Affection
Fraulein Octavia Hesse
Gentle Hermione
Ghislaine de Feligonde
Hawaiian Queen Martha
Henry [...]
Posted in Baby Name Trends, Baby Names, Baby Names from Literature, Baby Names from Plants, Boy Names, Girl Names, Unique Baby Names Also tagged allison, anderson, antony, azelie, beatrix, bennett, bes, betty, burnaby, clementina, cyril, dagmar, duncan, edna, emanuel, erskine, eugenie, eustacia, fiona, ghislaine, henry, hermione, ida, jan, jessika, joe, kaitlyn, lawinia, louise, margrethe, martha, miranda, natali, oskar, phyllis, portia, quinn, rex, rick, rose, roses, ruthie, sharifa, tara, thisbe, titiana, uwe, victor, victoria, walter, xavier, yolande, zelda, zelia, zephirine
Baby Name Needed, Part 2 – Middle Name for Ivan
Back in March, a reader named Pam wrote to me regarding the names of her twins. Several days ago, she sent me an update.
She still likes the names Alexander, Ivan and William…but not in the same order as before. One twin will now be Alexander William, the other will have the first name Ivan, and [...]
Posted in Baby Names, Baby Names Needed, Boy Names, Middle Names Also tagged alexander, anthony, benjamin, broderick, christopher, demetrius, dominic, emmanuel, gabriel, gregory, ivan, jeremiah, lawrence, matthias, oliver, pam, patrick, raphael, raymond, robert, roderick, samuel, solomon, sylvester, theodore, thomas, timothy, tobias, william, xavier, zachary
Politicians Who Were Named After Other Politicians