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Baby Names Needed – Whimsical, Weird Names for Quadruplets

Estelle wrote to me recently with a tall order: I’m having quads (!!!) in 4 weeks and I need names! I’m having one boy and three girls. My 4 year old son’s name is Cosmo. My husband and I like spacey, whimsical and weird names. In fact, they “don’t have any limits on how weird a name [...]
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Names from Children’s Literature – Jethro

Jethro Creighton — the main character of Irene Hunt’s book Across Five Aprils (1986) — is a 9-year-old living in Civil War-era Illinois. When the war breaks out, two of his brothers decide to fight for the Union, but a third joins with the Confederacy. Jethro is a lot like Omri: both are Hebrew names [...]
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