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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 [...]
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Baby Name Needed – Boy Name for Adalaide’s Little Brother
A reader named Abby is expecting a baby boy at the end of the year, and she’d like some helping coming up with his name. She writes:
His sister’s name is Adalaide Joy Foley* and we would like to use the middle name Bernard in honor of his grandfather who is no longer with us.
Abby also [...]
Posted in Baby Names, Baby Names Needed, Boy Names, Middle Names Also tagged adalaide, anthony, bernard, bill, clem, clement, dom, dominic, emmanuel, fred, frederick, gabe, gabriel, greg, gregory, jon, jonathan, joseph, joy, lou, louis, manny, mathew, matt, max, maximilian, nate, nathaniel, nic, nicholas, nick, oliver, ollie, rick, sam, samuel, sol, solomon, stan, stanley, ted, thad, thaddeus, theo, theodor, thomas, tim, timothy, tobias, toby, tom, tony, walt, walter, will, william, zach, zachary
It’s Not Zowie Bowie, It’s Duncan Jones
Those of us who follow celebrity baby names know all the oldies: Moon Unit, Dweezil, Ahmet, Diva…Fifi, Peaches, Little Pixie…River, Rain, Joaquin, Liberty, Summer…and, of course, Zowie.
But, as it turns out, David Bowie’s son Zowie is not really named Zowie. His legal name is Duncan Zowie Hayward Jones. He went by Zowie as a child, [...]
Posted in Baby Names, Baby Names from Music, Boy Names Also tagged david, duncan, joey, zowie
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
“Kate” by Sambassadeur
“What Katy Did Next” by Babyshambles
“Hey Latasha” [...]
Names from Children’s Literature – Frank
Brothers Frank and Joe Hardy are the intrepid teenage detectives of the Hardy Boys series, originally published from the 1920s to the 1970s.
Frank (the one with the dark hair) tends to be the rational one, while younger brother Joe often acts impetuously.
The name Frank originally referred to the Franks, a Germanic tribe that [...]
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Baby Name Needed – Brother of Kathryn and Nicholas