Baby Name: eileen
Baby Name Needed – Girl Name for Maeve’s Sister
A reader named Kelly is expecting her second daughter in May, and she’d appreciate a few name suggestions. She writes: Our first daughter, Maeve, was named really easily, and we grow to love the name more and more. However, we are having an exceptionally difficult time finding a second girl’s name that we like as [...]
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Baby Name Needed – Irish Form of Elaine
A reader named Diane writes: My Mother passed away 2 years ago and I would like to name my daughter after her. Her name was Elaine. I have already used her name as a middle name for my first daughter. I would like to find a variation of Elaine to use as a first name. [...]
Posted in Baby Names, Baby Names Needed, Girl Names Also tagged diane, elaine, ella, ellen, ellie, helen, helena, lean, leana, lena, nell, nelly
Unusual Baby Names from Quebec – Awesome, Dung, Jde, Luzer
Over the weekend, I read through the giant database of Quebec baby names for 2008. Most of the names there were familiar English or French names. A few were (very long!) Native American names. Here are some that stood out: Anakin & Anakyn (male) – Five of the former, two of the latter. Archippe (male) [...]
Posted in Baby Names, Boy Names, Girl Names, Pop Culture Names, Unique Names Also tagged anakin, anakyn, archippe, awesome, coatl, dakota-edison, dune, dung, ellliot, elyjah, enzo, jde, junior, kaleb-wolf, kierkegaard, lady, lazuli, loveland, luna, luzer, maully, obama, owen-walter, ramses-emmanuel, readily-chang, ruly, stephen-obama, thunder, tia-maria, trevelle, velvili, vernadette, wyclef
5 Names I Like Less, Thanks to Music
I do my best to stay impartial about names. Sometimes, though, a bad song gets in the way. When a perfectly good name gets trapped inside a bad song, I can’t help but start disliking the name along with the song. Which songs have done the most to tarnish various names for me? The top [...]
Posted in Baby Names, Girl Names Also tagged adia, rhonda, roxanne, sharona
Names in Song Titles – Coby, Katy, Lazarus, Martha
Here are some songs I’ve discovered recently (thanks, Pandora!) that feature given names in their titles: “Alice Said” by Screaming Trees “Coby” by The Lilys “Eileen” by Keith Richards* “Emilio” by SparkleJet “Hanging On To Jane” by Samantha 7** “Mountain Jim” by Clouds “Slow Down Joe” by Karl Blau “I Am John’s Brain” by Compulsion [...]
Like Symmetry? Try Palindromic Baby Names
Did you know that a handful of baby names happen to be palindromes? Here are all the names I know of that can be read the same way in either direction (i.e. both forwards and backwards): Ada Ana Anna Asa Ava Aviva Aziza Bob Elle Eve Emme Idi Iggi Nan Nayan Otto Pip Viv Two [...]
Posted in Baby Names, Boy Names, Girl Names, Unique Names Also tagged ada, aidan, alan, allan, allen, amin, ana, anna, ari, ariel, arik, aron, asa, ava, aviva, axel, aydan, aziza, bob, elle, ellen, emme, eve, flor, idi, iggi, ira, iris, james, kevin, kira, leira, leon, leunam, lexa, linus, manuel, miles, nadia, nadya, nala, nalla, nan, nayan, neelia, nella, nelle, nima, nivek, noel, nomar, nora, otto, pip, ramon, rolf, selim, semaj, siri, sunil, viv
Baby Names Needed for Twin Girls