I recently learned that actress Shawnee Smith (of the Saw movies) welcomed a baby girl in 1999 with her first husband. What did they name the baby? Verve, in part “after a British band” they liked.
(That band must have been The Verve, whose 1997 song “Bitter Sweet Symphony” was very popular around that time.)
The name Verve has never been used enough to appear in U.S. baby name data (which excludes names bestowed fewer than 5 times per year). But similar-sounding word-names like Brave, Ever, and Valor have been picking up steam lately.
Do you think we might see Verve in the dataset one day soon? Would you use it?
Source: Sitting Pretty – People