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Celebrities Who Have Chosen Great Baby Names
Do you think celebrities bestow strange baby names in order to give their careers a boost? That’s the impression I get sometimes. I’d never heard of soap star Ingo Rademacher before he named his son Peanut. I knew very little about M.I.A. before she came up with the name Ikhyd. And I hadn’t thought about [...]
Posted in Baby Names, Boy Names, Girl Names, Popular Baby Names Also tagged alexander, alice, audrey, benjamin, brendan, carlo, charlotte, edoardo, elizabeth, ella, elliott, francs, georgia, henry, james, katherine, leo, lucia, lucille, lydia, margaret, marion, matteo, michael, pearl, sophie, tabitha, valentina, valentino
Baby Name Needed – Brother of Kathryn and Nicholas
A reader named Shannon is expecting a baby boy at the end of the month. She currently has two children — twins named Kathryn (Kate) Rose and Nicholas (Nick) James. She writes:
We like Jonathan and Joshua, but are having trouble with a middle name. My husband’s name is James Nelson, and we are considering [...]
Posted in Baby Names, Baby Names Needed, Boy Names, Middle Names Also tagged adam, alex, alexander, andrew, anthony, arthur, blake, calvin, charles, cole, daniel, david, grant, henry, isaac, jacob, james, joe, jonathan, joseph, joshua, kate, kathryn, luke, marcus, mark, martin, matthew, michael, mike, neil, nelson, nicholas, nick, paul, philip, rose, ryan, shannon, thomas, victor, william
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, mary, matthew, maxwell, maya, micah, michael, michelle, miller, miriam, molly, naomi, natalie, nathan, patrick, rachel, raymond, rebecca, samantha, sarah, sawyer, shirley, simon, sinclair, william, zachary
Baby Name Needed – Name for Evan’s Little Brother
A reader named Kim is expecting her second son and would like help coming up with a name. Her first son is named Evan Isaac. So far, she and her husband like the names Jonah, Jonas and Miles.
My husband likes Jacob however as it’s been a number one name for many years, I’m not as [...]
Posted in Baby Names, Baby Names Needed, Boy Names, Middle Names, Popular Baby Names Also tagged aidan, amos, andrew, asher, david, dylan, evan, felix, graham, henry, isaac, jack, james, jasper, jonah, jonas, jordan, joseph, justin, kim, levi, liam, lucas, micah, miles, milo, nathan, noah, owen, philip, simon, wesley
Baby Name Needed, Part 2 – Middle Name for Ivan
Back in March, a reader named Pam wrote to me regarding the names of her twins. Several days ago, she sent me an update.
She still likes the names Alexander, Ivan and William…but not in the same order as before. One twin will now be Alexander William, the other will have the first name Ivan, and [...]
Posted in Baby Names, Baby Names Needed, Boy Names, Middle Names Also tagged abraham, alexander, anthony, benjamin, broderick, christopher, demetrius, dominic, emmanuel, gabriel, gregory, ivan, jeremiah, lawrence, matthias, oliver, pam, patrick, raphael, raymond, robert, roderick, solomon, sylvester, theodore, thomas, timothy, tobias, william, xavier, zachary
Popular Baby Names in 17th- and 18th-Century New England