Baby Name: tiffany

Trump Named Daughter Tiffany After Jewelry Store

Trump Tower, located on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, was completed in late 1983 thanks in part to a $5 million deal with Tiffany & Co. to purchase the unused air space above their flagship store next door. On 13 October 1993, almost a decade later, Donald Trump and Marla Maples had a baby girl they [...]
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Baby Names No Longer Needed – Ione, Joye, Miles, Samson

We helped seven readers brainstorm for baby names in August of 2009. So far, I’ve heard back from three of those seven. Kendra picked Joye, Kim selected Miles, and Estelle chose Samson, Surya, Ione and Vela. I have yet to hear from Tiffany, Kelsey, Claudia and Angela.
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Names in the News – Dump and Tiffany Co

My husband and I both spotted notable names in the news on Friday. I saw Dump in an article about a woman who’s been collecting names from gravestones in southwestern Missouri: With every cemetery visit her binder grew, and grew. With names like Vannoy, Maudi Mae, and even Dump. He saw Tiffany Co in an [...]
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Baby Name Needed – Girl Name for Baby #3

A reader named Tiffany is expecting her third baby (gender unknown) in a couple of months. The boy name has been picked, but the girl name has been harder to come by. Here’s what she says: We have two daughters, Vivian Grace and Margaret Anne. I like the first name Elise but struggle with a [...]
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More Zimbabwean Names – Everloving, Hatred, Never Trust a Woman

In Zimbabwe, traditional names are often “bestowed not in Ndebele, Sotho or some other local language, but in English, the world’s lingua franca,” according to In a Land of Homemade Names, Tiffany Doesn’t Cut It (10/07) by Michael Wines. A few of the inventive Zimbabwean names mentioned in the NYT article include: Abide Anywhere Confess [...]
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