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By: Starbaby News: Welcome Cleo! | Appellation Mountain

Starbaby News: Welcome Cleo! | Appellation Mountain — Mon, 23 May 2011 17:18:11 +0000

[...] David Schwimmer and wife Zoe Buckman have welcomed a daughter named Cleo Buckman Schwimmer. Long-time readers know that I have a daughter called Clio, though she has a longer formal name. [...]

By: Alphabet: C is for Girls | Appellation Mountain

Alphabet: C is for Girls | Appellation Mountain — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 22:51:44 +0000

[...] Girls was originally posted on February 20, 2008 and was revised and reposted on April 29, 2011. My daughter Clio arrived on October 2, 2008 – I suspect I first got the idea for the name after writing this [...]

By: Emma

Emma — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:31:35 +0000

Wow, Emmy Jo! That is the wierdest thing, my SO and I have agreed on Clara Annelies too! (minus your last ‘E’, which causes it to be pronounced ‘Anna-leez’ as opposed to ‘Anna-lisa’) Though your names are in honour of your mothers, whereas mine is after Anne Frank, one of my greatest influences. Still, that’s quite a coincidence if I ever saw one! Not many people even use Clara, let alone the two together! I suppose they are fairly unusual names…

Anyway, great job naming your children Appellation Mountain (sorry, do not know your actual name!) and I loved hearing the story behind it. It’s naming troubles like that which make me love the ‘art of naming’!

By: Name of the Day: Wren « Appellation Mountain

Name of the Day: Wren « Appellation Mountain — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:51:13 +0000

[...] Name of the Day: Wren 01Dec08 Today’s post goes out with a Happy Birthday to my sister, a.k.a Bird, and her namesake niece. [...]

By: appellationmountain

appellationmountain — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 21:33:37 +0000

Thanks so much everyone! I think they’re cute, too, but hey – I’m biased.

And Katharine, I’m due to update the calendar next week. (Fingers crossed that I get to it.) So these are perfectly timed! (Apologies to anyone who’s sent suggestions my way in the past ten days – I haven’t been on top of things.) I’ll let you know when I do. I’m particularly curious about Geoffrey. It’s the name of our financial advisor, but he pronounces Geoff not like Jeff, but Jof. I’m baffled by it, but haven’t asked. (These days, he’s overwhelmed himself!)

By: Laney McDonald

Laney McDonald — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:12:08 +0000

Awwww! Your kids are so cute! Claire Caroline Wren is a very beautiful, classy name. I love it and it flows perfectly. Alexei is a great name too. It’s a nice change from the super common Alexander.

I can understand the driver’s license thing too. I hate being Amanda Lynn, since it is way too common and alot of people like to make fun of it, not to mention there aren’t any cool nicknames. It’s still on my ID card and all my other legal documents and stuff, but I don’t let anyone call me by my real name. I choose to go by Laney instead because it is pretty close to my middle name but still different.

By: Katharine

Katharine — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:03:05 +0000

I hope you don’t mind but I have a few suggestions for name of the day…
I’ve reached far and wide for some boys names that I’d love to see as name of the day (I’m trying really hard with boys names at the moment to make up for my usual neglect!)

Ewan/Euan – I have a bit of a crush on this sexy sounding Welsh name
Edward/Edmund – gloriously stuffy & Royal sounding with huge nickname potential
Abraham – intriguing old Biblical stalwart
Hamish – gorgeously Scottish, I imagine kilts and curly locks when I hear this one!
Geoffrey – a bit dated these days but I like his sound
Guy – Handsome, upper middle class and very English

Obviously, ignore any of these suggestions if they’ve already been discussed…

By: Katharine

Katharine — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:35:56 +0000

I love Claire Caroline Wren – a beautiful, classic and unique name, and Clio is spunky and arty – Well done you for giving your little girl so many choices… They both look gorgeous in the photo too

If you haven’t already tackled it before, please could Wren be a name of the day? She really intrigues me and I’d love to learn more about her – oh and Emmy Jo – Elizabeth Wren is beautiful!

By: coolteamblt

coolteamblt — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:35:05 +0000

Verity, I’ll just kow-tow to your ability to compromise. I love the creativity you used to both honor family and give your kids their own names. It took us years to agree to family middle names and unique to our kids first names. And unique is ending up being James. :/ Your story with your names are just awesome. It’s actually really comforting to know that people who have really creative taste in names can name with people who are James and Emily sorts of people. I love the sound of Claire Caroline Wren. It flows, it has meaning, and has given you guys a myriad of nicknames options. I love the compromises you’ve found with Alexei. Alexander may be common, but you guys have made it your own, and it was picked with love. Thank you for sharing your story, because it’s just inspiring and cool.

By: Emmy Jo

Emmy Jo — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:13:09 +0000

Congratulations, Verity! Claire Caroline Wren is a gorgeous name. You know that Clara’s at the very top of my list; I love Caroline as well. I’ve recently fallen in love with Wren as a middle name for a classic first name. Elizabeth Wren is currently my top combo for it.

It is tough to compromise between using family names and using the really cool awesome names one loves just because. My husband and I are discussing that right now, though we’ll probably have a couple years before we have to settle the question. I asked him about using Clara Persephone this morning (instead of the Clara Anneliese we had sort of settled on because it honors both our mothers). He seemed more interested in sleeping than discussing it.

You’re actually managing to honor THREE women with her name and nickname — your mother, your sister, and YOU.