Baby Name: linda

Babies Named After Hurricane Gloria

Two baby girls born in Virginia while Hurricane Gloria was passing through (on 27 September 1985) were named after the storm. One of the babies belonged to Linda Cowell of Newport News. “Everyone in the shelter was saying if you go into labor, you’ve got to name her Gloria,” she said. And so she did. [...]
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Baby Named Linda Ann After WWII Plane

The 1940s baby named Linda from the other day reminded me of another 1940s baby named Linda: On 31 July 1944, a baby named Linda Ann was born to parents Manuel and Ida Bonito of San Jose. “The baby was named after the airplane on which an uncle, Frank Bonito, a member of the Army [...]
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Baby Named After San Diego Housing Project

During WWII, aircraft workers and their families poured into San Diego to build planes at the Consolidated Aircraft plant. From 1941 to 1942, the population of San Diego jumped from about 203,000 to over 300,000. Concerned about workers’ poor living conditions (and how these conditions might affect productivity) the Federal government began the Linda Vista [...]
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Baby Names in the News

Headline-grabbing baby names are a weakness of mine. I’ve blogged about dozens over the years, but I’ve never really kept track of all the posts…until now! Here’s a timeline of all those newsworthy baby names, sorted by the year in which each baby was born: 1892: Numidian 1903: Sarto 1909: Theodore 1910: Cleveland, Sufficient 1919: [...]
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Namestorm 12 – Baby Names Inspired by Nurses

Here are some names inspired by nurses and nursing (an excellent topic suggested by C in DC last week). Florence English nurse Florence Nightingale established a nursing school at St. Thomas’ Hospital in London in 1860. Linda American nurse Linda Richards became the first professionally trained nurse in the U.S. in 1873. Lillian (and Henry) [...]
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How Similar Should Twin Names Be?

Let’s say you’re expecting twins. Do you look for baby names that sound alike? (How much alike?) Do you avoid names that sound alike? P.S. Former NBA player Fennis Dembo and his twin sister Fenise were the last of 11 children. They were named by their oldest sister, Zona, who thought the family had grown [...]
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Revisiting Celebrity Baby Names Sparrow and Harlow

Now this is intriguing. Musician Joel Madden, father of baby Sparrow, had this to say about Sparrow’s name in the most recent issue of People: My worry raising a son in Hollywood is what will he have to struggle for? I wanted to give him a name that he’s going to have to stand up [...]
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Baby Name Safe List – Amelia, Calvin, Grace, Preston, Rebecca, Wesley

Not sure what to name your baby? Maybe you should go with a classic. The following names have been popular in the U.S. since at least 1880 (when data on baby names was first collected). None of the male names have ever been out of the top 400, and none of the female names have [...]
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