How popular is the baby name Rachele in the United States right now? How popular was it historically? Use the popularity graph and data table below to find out! Plus, see all the blog posts that mention the name Rachele.
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On September 15, 2004 — in the middle of Hurricane Ivan — a Georgia couple welcomed a baby boy at South Georgia Medical Center.
Parents Rocco Reed and Rachele Mercer already had a name picked out, “but changed their minds at the last minute.”
They ended up naming their son Ivan Dwayne Reed — first name to commemorate the storm.
Source: “Baby named after hurricane.” WALB News 16 Sep. 2004.
Image (Hurricane Elena) by NASA
California mom-to-be Natasha Hill — the woman who was supposed to be getting $5,000 for allowing strangers to name her unborn baby via the site Belly Ballot — isn’t really pregnant. She isn’t even really named “Natasha Hill.”
Her name is Natasha Lloyd, and she’s an actress who was hired by the website’s founder to help drum up publicity.
Yep — the whole thing was a hoax. The folks at Today.com were the ones to figure it out:
When TODAY Moms first reported on the contest, some readers were incredulous; they couldn’t believe a real mom would do such a thing. Now it appears they were right.
Except…they weren’t. Several “real moms” (and dads) have indeed done such a thing. Here are all the for-profit baby names (and attempts) I know of:
*I never blogged about these three, so here are the details:
Video games on one end, $15,000 on the other…such wildly different values placed on baby names. Kinda fascinating, isn’t it?
Sources: $5,000 online baby-name contest revealed as hoax, Mom crowdsources baby name for $5,000
Image: Adapted from $20 Federal Reserve Bank Note (1929) (public domain)
[Latest update: March 2022]
Are you a resident of Potenza, Italy? Are you expecting a baby next year?
If you answered “yes” to both questions, the Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore (a small neo-fascist political party in Italy) would like to suggest the baby names Benito and Rachele.
The party will give $1,940 to Potenza parents who name their 2009 babies after either the World War II-era dictator or his second wife — so long as those parents also “promise to use the money on cribs, clothes, food or other necessary items for their infants.”
Source: “Party: Cash for Mussolini baby names.” UPI 24 Nov. 2008
