http://appellationmountain.net/2008/10/08/name-of-the-day-walter/ Where Every Name Has a Story Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:32:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://appellationmountain.net/2008/10/08/name-of-the-day-walter/#comment-27761 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 07:03:50 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=771#comment-27761 [...] in the number of boys receiving names that once seemed perpetually out of fashion.  Choices like Walter, Raymond, and Calvin have all received positive feedback.  It suggests that either they’re [...]

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2008/10/08/name-of-the-day-walter/#comment-25728 Mon, 24 Oct 2011 07:04:07 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=771#comment-25728 [...] Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” is a poem by Walt Whitman, an elegy for the late President Abraham [...]

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2008/10/08/name-of-the-day-walter/#comment-25540 Thu, 20 Oct 2011 07:03:32 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=771#comment-25540 [...] Roger – At home on the mid-century Mad Men set, but also rich with medieval associations. Nameberry called him one of the 12 Neglected Boys’ Classics.  Another possible retro revival?  Walter. [...]

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2008/10/08/name-of-the-day-walter/#comment-25029 Thu, 06 Oct 2011 00:26:21 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=771#comment-25029 Congratulations on your new little guy, Kylie! What a great name.

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2008/10/08/name-of-the-day-walter/#comment-25024 Wed, 05 Oct 2011 22:43:42 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=771#comment-25024 Just wanted to announce (belatedly), that this is the name we chose for our little guy in June. Walter Jack – he goes almost exclusively by “Walt” for now. It fits him perfectly. Thanks for all the work you put into this site!

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2008/10/08/name-of-the-day-walter/#comment-23709 Mon, 29 Aug 2011 00:22:35 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=771#comment-23709 I love seeing all the other people who reference Anne of Green Gables. That is why I love Walter, nn Walt. When I mentioned this name as a possibility to my parents, they both cringed and said the only who are and should be named Walter are those who are Juniors, III’s etc, which gave me some pause. But I shrugged it off, since I have very different name taste from them.
I see Walt as an adorable little toddler but also as a strapping, intelligent, friendly adult.

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2008/10/08/name-of-the-day-walter/#comment-22538 Tue, 19 Jul 2011 07:04:57 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=771#comment-22538 [...] Walter Scott used the name Meg Merrilies for a gypsy in Guy Mannering, his 1815 bestseller.  Meg was [...]

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2008/10/08/name-of-the-day-walter/#comment-22149 Tue, 05 Jul 2011 07:32:43 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=771#comment-22149 I love the name Walter, and would definatly use it if I had a boy. I think its the L.M. Montgomery connection though. I read the Anne of Green Gables series as a child and fell in love with Walter Blythe.

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2008/10/08/name-of-the-day-walter/#comment-21920 Tue, 28 Jun 2011 03:35:03 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=771#comment-21920 I was going to name my last baby Walt if she would have been a boy. I know some people cringe at naming kids the shortened versions instead of the full name, but my last name ends in -er. It just didn’t sound right. Plus, I think of Walt Whitman when I see the shortened version. Walt Whitman [sigh]…

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2008/10/08/name-of-the-day-walter/#comment-21704 Mon, 20 Jun 2011 07:04:22 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=771#comment-21704 [...] English king Edgar, picking up a literary sheen thanks to a fictional Edgar in a novel by Sir Walter Scott, and writers like Edgar Rice Burroughs and Edgar Allan Poe.  He occupied the US Top 100 into [...]

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