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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, caleb, carson, cassie, cecilia, cede, cent, ciara, cilliam, cimberly, cindy, cissie, cordelia, cyrus, kent, kimberly, sage, simberly

Baby Name Needed – Familiar-Yet-Uncommon Boy Name

6 Comments | 10 May 2009

A reader named Rachel is expecting a baby boy. She says: We had two girls’ names that I adored — Jane and Marjorie. Both of these are very uncommon (400s for Jane, not in top 1000 for Marjorie!) yet are utterly familiar (and unpretentious). I am completely unable to find a boys’ name that fits that bill. [...]

Posted in Baby Names, Baby Names Needed, Boy Names | Also tagged antony, bernard, carl, chester, francis, frederick, gerald, gerard, giles, harvey, howard, lane, leonard, lewis, otis, percy, roger, roscoe, silas, simon, solomon, stanley, stanton, stewart, stuart, sylvester, victor, walter