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Namestorm #4 – Baby Names for Beer Lovers
Miller Lyte gives me bitter beer face. It’s just a terrible baby name. After I discovered that one, I wondered: is it even possible to come up with tasteful beer-inspired baby names?
Luckily, it is.
Mary
American brewster Mary Lisle, the first known brewster in the United States, started operating her late father’s brewhouse in Philadelphia in [...]
Posted in Baby Name Advice, Baby Name Inspiration, Baby Names, Boy Names, Girl Names Also tagged abraham, adam, david, ermal, frederick, john, joseph, louis, maximilian, miller, william
Popular Baby Names in 17th- and 18th-Century New England
Caitlin GD Hopkins posted about historically popular baby names in Boston, MA and Windsor, CT at her blog Vast Public Indifference earlier today. Using a book of birth records for Boston, she came up with the top male and female names given to babies born in Boston in 1710:
Mary
Elizabeth
Sarah
Abigail
Susanna
John
William
Thomas
James
Samuel
Then she used church records from 1635 [...]
Posted in Baby Names, Baby Names from Religion, Boy Names, Girl Names, Popular Baby Names Also tagged abigail, elizabeth, hanna, james, john, joseph, nathaniel, samuel, sarah, susanna, thomas, william
Did Your Ancestors Immigrate? Ship Names as Baby Names
Many of us have ancestors who traveled by sea. But few of us know the names of the ships that conveyed our ancestors from place to place. That’s too bad, because some of these vessels had names like:
M. F. Elliott
Mabel Gale
Mae
Madeleine Constance
Magda
Maggie Todd
Malcolm Baxter Jr
Manuel Calvo
Marco Minghetti
Margaret May Riley
Margarethe Russ
Margery Austin
Margit Skogland
Maria
Maria Valerie
Mariana
Marie di Giorgio
Marina
Marion [...]
Posted in Baby Name Inspiration, Baby Names, Baby Names from Family, Boy Names, Girl Names Also tagged baxter, constance, elliott, gale, horten, mabel, madeleine, mae, magda, maggie, manuel, marco, margaret, margarethe, margery, margit, maria, mariana, marie, marina, marion, mariska, mathilda, maurice, max, maxwell, maynard, melania, melissa, miguel, minerva, mirjam, thomas, valerie
Baby Name Needed – Name for Hayden’s Little Brother or Sister
A reader named Angela is expecting her second baby (gender unknown). She sent me a lot of helpful information, so I’ve broken it down into main points:
The baby’s middle name will be Patrick (if a boy) or Josephine (if a girl).
The baby’s surname will start with P.
She and her husband like the name Abigail, but [...]
Posted in Baby Names, Baby Names Needed, Baby Names from Literature, Boy Names, Girl Names, Middle Names Also tagged abigail, adam, angela, audrey, beckett, bennet, bethany, caleb, charlotte, chloe, daniel, david, denise, dorothy, edward, eliot, elizabeth, emmett, everett, gabriel, hayden, jacob, james, jerome, jillian, jonathan, joseph, judith, kaitlyn, katherine, leah, leo, lillian, louisa, lucas, lucy, lydia, mara, marianne, martin, matthew, maxwell, maya, micah, michael, michelle, miller, miriam, molly, naomi, natalie, nathan, patrick, rachel, raymond, rebecca, samantha, samuel, sarah, sawyer, shirley, simon, sinclair, william, zachary
Baby Name Needed – Girl Name for Anna’s Twin Sister