Tag Archives: caleb

Spelling Tip for Creative Baby-Namers – Hard C vs. Soft C

4 Comments | 23 November 2009

Google tells me that there are women out there named Cimberly. Cimberly is meant to be a variant of Kimberly, but when I see it, I can’t force myself to say anything but Simberly. That’s because the pronunciation of the letter C depends upon the letter that follows. When C is followed by E, I [...]

Posted in Baby Name Advice, Baby Names, Boy Names, Girl Names | Also tagged cade, carson, cassie, cecilia, cede, cent, ciara, cilliam, cimberly, cindy, cissie, cordelia, curtis, cyrus, kent, kimberly, sage, simberly

Baby Name Needed – Name for Hayden’s Little Brother or Sister

2 Comments | 31 August 2009

A reader named Angela is expecting her second baby (gender unknown). She sent me a lot of helpful information, so I’ve broken it down into main points: The baby’s middle name will be Patrick (if a boy) or Josephine (if a girl). The baby’s surname will start with P. She and her husband like the name Abigail, but [...]

Posted in Baby Names, Baby Names Needed, Baby Names from Literature, Boy Names, Girl Names, Middle Names | Also tagged abigail, adam, angela, audrey, beckett, bennet, bethany, charlotte, chloe, daniel, david, denise, dorothy, edward, eliot, elizabeth, emmett, everett, gabriel, hayden, jacob, james, jerome, jillian, jonathan, joseph, judith, kaitlyn, katherine, leah, leo, lillian, louisa, lucas, lucy, lydia, mara, marianne, martin, mary, matthew, maxwell, maya, micah, michael, michelle, miller, miriam, molly, naomi, natalie, nathan, patrick, rachel, raymond, rebecca, samantha, samuel, sarah, sawyer, shirley, simon, sinclair, william, zachary

How to Find a Boy Name that Won’t Become a Girl Name

21 Comments | 10 August 2009

Are there any boy names out there that aren’t at risk of becoming girl names? This may not be the answer you want to hear, but: nope. There’s simply no way to guarantee that a boy name won’t suddenly become trendy for girls. (A movie mermaid was all it took for the name Madison — a [...]

Posted in Baby Name Advice, Baby Name Trends, Baby Names, Boy Names | Also tagged abraham, albert, alexander, archibald, augustine, balthazar, barnaby, benedict, benjamin, bennett, bernard, bertrand, blake, brian, brianna, bryant, carl, carla, chad, charles, clark, conrad, derek, desmond, donald, elliot, emmett, erik, erika, favorite, ferdinand, garrick, george, georgia, gerald, geraldine, gilbert, grant, henrietta, henry, irwin, isaac, jared, joseph, josephine, kenneth, leopold, madison, mark, martin, martina, maynard, montgomery, mortimer, patrick, paul, paula, ralph, reginald, robert, roberta, rudolph, scott, seth, stanford, stuart, sylvester, theodora, theodore, trent, victor, victoria, woodrow, wyatt

Baby Name Needed – Boy Name for Baby #1

8 Comments | 5 June 2009

A reader named Amy is expecting her first baby, which will be a boy. She writes: I like very old fashioned sounding names (Nathaniel, Jeremiah, Isaiah) and [my husband] likes newer, trendier names (Dylan, Zachary). Our last name starts with a Q so we don’t want anything that that ends in a c/k sound or [...]

Posted in Baby Names, Baby Names Needed, Boy Names | Also tagged abraham, alfred, amos, asher, benjamin, byron, charles, dylan, eli, elijah, ellis, eugene, felix, gabriel, gideon, graham, isaiah, jacob, jasper, jeremiah, jonah, julius, lawrence, leonard, levi, malachi, matthias, nathaniel, noah, philip, rufus, seth, simon, solomon, tobias, uriah, zachary, zuriel

Baby Name Needed – 5-Letter Boy Name for Baby #3

2 Comments | 10 May 2009

Ok, I’m going to do my best to answer a bunch of reader e-mail today. I am woefully late on most of these — I’m sorry. Better late than never, though. :) First up is Kelly, who wrote (way back in March) that she’d like a name for baby #3, which will be a boy. Her [...]

Posted in Baby Names, Baby Names Needed, Boy Names | Also tagged asher, blake, bryce, david, gavin, henry, isaac, jonah, jonas, lucas, nolan, peter, simon

Tastes in Baby Names – United States vs. England

Leave a comment | 24 August 2007

What are the differences between the U.S. and England in terms of baby-naming preferences? Here are some trends I noticed looking at the 100 most popular girl and boy names for each country: New vs. Old Parents in the U.S. embraced modern names (Brayden, Chase, Kayla, Kaylee, Mackenzie, Makayla), whereas those in England tended to opt for more [...]

Posted in Baby Name Trends, Baby Names, Boy Names, Girl Names, Popular Baby Names | Also tagged abbie, alejandro, alfie, amelie, angel, archie, autumn, ben, billy, brayden, callum, carlos, charlie, chase, christian, demi, diego, eleanor, elijah, ellie, elliot, eloise, freddie, freya, harriet, harvey, isaiah, jeremiah, jesus, juan, kayla, kaylee, libby, luis, mackenzie, makayla, mary, miguel, millie, mohammad, morgan, neveah, niamh, rhys, sam, summer, tilly, trinity, victoria