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Baby Names Needed – Classy, Quirky Names for Twins

4 Comments | 6 January 2010
A reader named Abbie has four children: Leo Sebastian, Henry Edward, Jasper Alaric, and Eliza Vivienne. She recently learned that she is expecting twins (congrats!) and would like some help coming up with baby names–especially boy names. She writes: Lucy Matilda and Nora Penelope will be the twins’ names if they are both girls. We like [...]
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Baby Name Needed – Name for Harvey’s Sibling

3 Comments | 14 July 2009
A reader named Kim has a son named Harvey James. She’s expecting her second baby (gender unknown) this fall. The baby’s last name will be similar to Landsberg. She and her husband like different types of names, so let’s tackle one gender at a time. For a girl, I like (stodgy?) old fashioned names like Matilda, Agatha, [...]
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Baby Name Needed – Girl Name for Eli’s Little Sister

5 Comments | 16 March 2009
A reader named Liz, who already has a son named Eli, is now expecting a baby girl. Here’s her dilemma: I love Caroline, my husband loves Marley, obviously we have different tastes and can’t seem to meet in the middle. I would like to use Ruth or Ellen for a middle name. My first thought–and I’m sure [...]
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Names from Children’s Literature – Veruca

2 Comments | 29 July 2007
Veruca Salt doesn’t have a whole book named after her (as Matilda does), but she surely would have wanted it that way. Veruca is a minor (but memorable) character in Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964). She is spoiled, demanding, and prone to temper tantrums. Dahl named Veruca after a wart medication. (Indeed, [...]
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Names from Children’s Literature – Matilda

Leave a comment | 29 July 2007
Matilda Wormwood, the titular character of Roald Dahl’s book Matilda (1988), is extremely smart and loves to read books. One day Matilda discovers she has psychokinetic powers, and she decides to use these powers to get back at her monstrous headmistress Miss Agatha Trunchbull. The name Matilda can be traced back to the Germanic elements [...]
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