Comments on: Sunday Summary: 1/3/10

By: Lucia

Lucia — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 02:45:25 +0000

Marijuana Pepsi. Lovely.

I´d call my son Cocaine Coke, but it´s too matchy-matchy for my liking.

By: appellationmountain

appellationmountain — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:06:29 +0000

Oh, you’re calling her Rosy! That’s even better. Should I ever have a second daughter, Rosemary remains our #1 name, but we’re planning on Romy.

Wishing you lots of lovely days of snuggling with your new daughter … it goes by SO fast!

By: chaneltara

chaneltara — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:02:42 +0000

Thanks for the congrats! Rosy was our perfect Christmas present! We’re so in love with her, she is everything we ever could have wished for-plus a million more!

Phoebee and Daphnee make me weep so hard!

By: photoquilty

photoquilty — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:29:06 +0000

I’m still in shock over the Today Show segment. Oy oy oy!
Richlinde reminds me of JonBenet…
Rosemary Amelie is awesome. Props to Chanara-and congratulations!
As for Daphne, well, I knew a girl named Shaka (as in Khan, not Zulu) who named her daughter Dafni. She was named after the character on Scooby-Doo, but Mommy wanted a distinctive look for the name. (Isn’t Daphne a distinctive name without a spelling change?)
Ewww. Gilbert Gottfried had a child this year? Isn’t he, like, 60-something?
At least Chris Robinson spelled Cheyenne correctly! Over on Y!A I see more suggestions for Shyanne than make me comfortable.

By: appellationmountain

appellationmountain — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:40:10 +0000

Yikes! Phoebee stings.

By: appellationmountain

appellationmountain — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:39:46 +0000

Thanks, Joy – I worried it might be that! But I couldn’t resist the Ivan/Van connection, either – clever!

By: caroline

caroline — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:14:25 +0000

Oh God. I met a baby at the grocery store a couple of months named Phoebee. (My daughter is Phoebe.) I can still taste the bile.

By: Joy

Joy — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 18:46:49 +0000

The baby announcement for Van Morrison was revealed to be a hoax, which he denounced. However, I never knew that his name was a nickname for Ivan…creative and classic.

By: appellationmountain

appellationmountain — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 18:20:45 +0000

Hi Meredith – thank you for the clarification and my apologies – I’ll make the correction above.

That’s an interesting question about spelling variations. My gut reaction is that it wouldn’t necessarily be a steady increase in percentage, but I’d have to look at some actual numbers … I’m intrigued!

And thank you!

By: Meredith Cane

Meredith Cane — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 17:06:03 +0000

The Omaha World Herald article is by Cleveland Kent Evans, who is male.

On UK names only, he’s quoting me, and I’m female.

One of the things I do with the complete list for the UK is combine spellings. Daphne appears as Daphne, Daphnee and Dafne. And this is an uncommon name. Try for example Demi, which appears as Demi, Demee, Demie,Demii, Demy, Demmi, Demmie and even Dhemmi. I won’t list the 48 variant spellings for Lily-May. Given the number of kids named every year in the US, it would be interesting to know whether the number of spelling variants increases in line with population.

Oh, and I do like this blog.