I’m on a reality television kick.  (Right, well, it’s worse than usual.)  How can I not, with names like Truely on Sister Wives and Bret Michaels’ daughters Raine and Jorja on his new series.  Will the trio of real life monikers become the new Destiny, Skye, and Alivia?  Or will the trends take us elsewhere?

Speaking of celebs, this week we welcomed Egypt, a son for Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz, plus twins GideonHarper, a son and daughter for Neil Patrick Harris.

Elsewhere online:

• From the Telegraph UK comes a fascinating report: parents consider, on average, twelve names for their child, and more than a third of all couples quarrel about the final choice.  My reaction:  Just twelve names?  And not 99.9% of couples?
• I loved Sebastiane’s post on Jenny – it is a great reminder that nicknames attach to different names over the years;
• Remember my post about Archer?  The Name Lady talks a mom-to-be off the ledge after she frets that Archer is getting “too popular” – while the Name Lady assures her, the only thing is that the mom’s fears might be right.  While there aren’t that many, there might be more than you expect in your circles.  Our friends and family and even colleagues often tend to have similar naming styles.  I know two boys named Finn, another two called Kai, plus two girls called Esme.  None of them seem remarkable to me, though they’re not common in statistical terms.  I imagine that happens a lot – I also don’t know a single Nevaeh;
• I’ve been pondering the emerging trends for 2011, and the one that seems clear is this: the rise of single-syllable names for boys.  It’s been coming for a while, but look at this list For Real compiled from Montana: Cade, Quade, Gage, Drake, and Clive.  Over in Minnesota, there’s Jence, Joab, Jude, Tate, and Clark;
• Are we really going to name our children after the rescued Chilean miners? Or are names like Esteban and Lilianett (the wife of a miner) irresistible even without the happiest ending outside of a Disney movie?
• This is fascinating: remember Elisabeth’s post on twin girls Ellis Catherine and Claire Emerson at You Can’t Call It “It”? Check out the same question at Swistle.  I still like the original set just fine, but it is fun to see two different bloggers tackle the same question.

Lastly, to all of those parents thinking that Flynn was the perfect, simple, unusual, swashbuckling, Irish surname for a son’s first name, the name never to be shared by another, I regretfully inform you that the hero in Tangled, Disney’s upcoming Rapunzel reboot, is called Flynn.  Yes, he was originally named Bastion.  And yes, Flynn was awfully close to the white hot Finn anyhow.  Regardless of the movie’s success, this is Disney, and suspect Flynn will rise.   Of course, he’s never been in the US Top 1000.  But Disney plus the single syllable trend that seems to be accelerating?  Make that he has been in the US Top 1000 yet.

That’s all for this Sunday.  Check out the Facebook page for more Summary-esque chatter during the week.

As always, thanks for reading and have a fabulous week!