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Baby Name Needed – Girl Name for Anna’s Twin Sister

4 Comments | 2 March 2010
A reader named Dana writes: We are expecting twin girls and know we want to use Anna as one of our choices. Do you have any suggestions for our second baby girl? We already have two boys who are named Ivan and Ben, so you can see we like short, simple, traditional names…and nothing that [...]
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Namestorm #2 – Baby Names for Shoe Lovers

3 Comments | 8 February 2010
Love shoes as much as Imelda Marcos? If so, this post is for you. C in DC suggested last week that I brainstorm for names associated with shoes, and I thought that was a great idea. So here’s my stab at it. Luther In 1938, American archaeologist Luther Cressman discovered a 10,000-year-old pair of sandals–the oldest [...]
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Names from Children’s Literature – Eloise

2 Comments | 28 July 2007
Eloise is the 6-year-old star of a series of books written by Kay Thompson and published during the late 1950s. Eloise lives in a room on the top floor of New York City’s Plaza Hotel with a pug (named Weenie) and a turtle (Skipperdee). The inspiration for Eloise may have been Liza Minnelli, Thompson’s god-daughter (and [...]
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