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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 article about [...]
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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 middle [...]
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Name of the Day – Tiffany

Tiffany can be traced back to the name Theophanes, which is comprised of the Greek elements theos, “god,” and phanes, “appearing.” Theophanes is best known as the name of an 8th-9th century saint from Constantinople. The name Tiffany is strongly associated with Tiffany & Co. (a.k.a. “Tiffany’s”), a jewelry and silver company founded in 1837 by [...]
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