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Baby name story: Sarah

rescue helicopter

In February of 1956, Joyce Atherton of Ugthorpe, England, went into labor. An ambulance from nearby Whitby couldn’t reach her because of the snow on the ground, so helicopter pilot Ron Salt of the No. 275 Squadron RAF (Royal Air Force) flew in, picked her up, and transported her to the hospital.

Days later, a baby girl arrived. She was named Mary Sarah Atherton. Where did her middle name come from? It was inspired by the acronym SARAH, “Search And Rescue And Homing,” as Ron’s group was also known as a Search and Rescue and Homing Squadron.

(SARAH was actually a piece of equipment the squadron pilots used. It was a miniature transmitter developed in the early 1950s to help rescuers locate downed pilots, especially during air-sea rescues.)

Source: “Sarah Named After Her Air Rescuers.” Bulletin and Scots Pictorial 19 Mar. 1956: 5.

[Other acronym baby names: Kytal, Ily, Ilys, Ynwa, Liati]

Celebrity baby name (from a dream): Easton August

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Actress Elisabeth Rohm and her fiancé, entrepreneur Ron Wooster, welcomed their first child — a baby girl — on April 10th. They named their daughter Easton August.

Where did Rohm find the name Easton? In a dream:

“In the dream I was picking her up from a friend’s house, and she wouldn’t respond to her name, Grace,” said the 34-year-old actress, who is engaged to entrepreneur Ron Wooster, 40.

“Finally I said, ‘Easton?’ and she turned around and said, ‘Yes Mommy?’ We were leaning towards [naming the baby] Grace but in the end decided to give her the name she asked for,” says Rohm.

Interestingly, both names go against the grain in terms of gender — Easton and August are more popular for baby boys than for baby girls nowadays.

Sources: Elisabeth Rohm: Baby’s Name Came to Me in a Dream, Elisabeth Rohm Welcomes a Baby Girl

Image: Adapted from Twilight crescent Moon by ESO/G. Brammer under CC BY 4.0.