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Baby Names Needed – Classy, Quirky Names for Twins
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 [...]
Posted in Baby Names, Baby Names Needed, Baby Names from Literature, Boy Names, Girl Names, Middle Names Also tagged abbie, abraham, alaric, albert, alfred, amory, arthur, avery, bernard, bertram, cedric, charlie, chester, daisy, dexter, duncan, edith, edward, eliza, ernest, felix, fitzgerald, frederick, henry, honoria, jasper, leo, lewis, lorraine, lucille, lucy, marion, marjorie, matilda, milo, nelson, nolan, nora, owen, penelope, percy, philip, roland, roscoe, rosemary, rupert, sebastian, simon, stella, stuart, violet, vivienne, warren
A Rose by Any Other Name – Burnaby, Natali, Zelda Lloyd
Sure, a rose by just any other name would not smell as sweet. But what if the name were as cool as “Madame Azélie Imbert” or “Victor Emmanuel”?
Other intriguing rose names I found in the EveryRose.com database include:
Abraham Darby
Admired Miranda
Betty Uprichard
Burnaby
Clementina Carbonieri
Cyril Fletcher
Dagmar Spath
Dainty Bess
Edna Marie
Eustacia
Fiona’s Affection
Fraulein Octavia Hesse
Gentle Hermione
Ghislaine de Feligonde
Hawaiian Queen Martha
Henry [...]
Posted in Baby Name Trends, Baby Names, Baby Names from Literature, Baby Names from Plants, Boy Names, Girl Names, Unique Baby Names Also tagged abraham, allison, anderson, antony, azelie, beatrix, bennett, bes, betty, burnaby, clementina, cyril, dagmar, duncan, edna, emanuel, erskine, eugenie, eustacia, fiona, ghislaine, henry, hermione, ida, jan, jessika, joe, kaitlyn, lawinia, louise, margrethe, martha, miranda, natali, oskar, phyllis, portia, quinn, rex, rick, rose, roses, ruthie, sharifa, tara, thisbe, titiana, uwe, victor, victoria, xavier, yolande, zelda, zelia, zephirine
Baby Name Needed – Boy Name for Adalaide’s Little Brother
A reader named Abby is expecting a baby boy at the end of the year, and she’d like some helping coming up with his name. She writes:
His sister’s name is Adalaide Joy Foley* and we would like to use the middle name Bernard in honor of his grandfather who is no longer with us.
Abby also [...]
Posted in Baby Names, Baby Names Needed, Boy Names, Middle Names Also tagged adalaide, anthony, bernard, bill, clem, clement, dom, dominic, emmanuel, fred, frederick, gabe, gabriel, greg, gregory, joe, jon, jonathan, joseph, joy, lou, louis, manny, mathew, matt, max, maximilian, nate, nathaniel, nic, nicholas, nick, oliver, ollie, rick, sam, samuel, sol, solomon, stan, stanley, ted, thad, thaddeus, theo, theodor, thomas, tim, timothy, tobias, toby, tom, tony, walt, will, william, zach, zachary
2 Names I Like More, Thanks to Music
Coming up with five names I like less thanks to music is easy. But coming up with five names I like more? Trickier than I thought.
The two best examples I can offer are:
Lydia, in the song Troubled Times (2008) by Your Vegas
Walter, in the song Walter Reed (2005) by Michael Penn
I used to be ambivalent [...]
Posted in Baby Names, Baby Names from Music, Boy Names, Girl Names Also tagged lydia
Baby Name Needed – Familiar-Yet-Uncommon Boy Name
A reader named Rachel is expecting a baby boy. She says:
We had two girls’ names that I adored — Jane and Marjorie. Both of these are very uncommon (400s for Jane, not in top 1000 for Marjorie!) yet are utterly familiar (and unpretentious).
I am completely unable to find a boys’ name that fits that bill. [...]
Baby Names from Family-Related Place Names