For those of you in the US, I hope you’re having a lovely, fireworks-filled Independence Day weekend.
First up: a quick users’ guide note: when I write a post, I try to bold any given name the first time I use it. If the name is a (blue) hyperlink, then I’ve written about the name before – and one quick click will take you to that post. I also try to link movies and television shows to the Internet Movie Database.
On to the news:
- Speaking of movies, Nancy mentioned the big Pixar reveal: a female heroine called Merida, star of their 2012 feature Brave. It’s already getting some attention with expectant parents;
- Nameberry covered Irish Baby Names following the announcement of their official statistics for 2010. I love Orla for a girl and Lorcan for a boy – oh, and Cathal, though I find it feminine;
- Elea explored popular Welsh Boys’ Names, including choices like Cai and Rhys that would work perfectly in the US, too;
- Bewitching Baby Names profiled Oregon. It’s an unconventional choice, but fresher than Dakota;
- Waltzing More Than Matilda posted about Australia’s answer to the Duggars: Jeni and Ray Bonnell and their fifteen kids, including newborn son Damian. No, the older fourteen kids don’t have D names;
- From the wayback machine: the feature name in 2008 was clunky Clarence; in 2009, the antique Ada; and just a year ago, it was the lovely, but perhaps burdensome Jocasta;
- Is it me, or does it get easier to play Elisabeth’s Sibset Game as the posts at You Can’t Call It “It” go farther and farther up the rankings? Some of my favorites from the 700s are Kim W’s Luka Ellis, Ingrid Frances, Elin Rosemary, Soren Lewis, and Sonia Julianne and Kailee’s Rory Conrad, Lewis Eugene, Julianne Frances, Susan “Susie” Campbell, and Corinne Rosemary. From the 600s, I’m intrigued by Ashley’s Tomas “Tam” Sullivan Cale, Callen “Cal” Memphis Clark, Dahlia “Dolly” Phoenix Anne, Noemi “Emme” Paloma Adrienne, Isis “Izzy” Raven Amelie, and Lawson “Lars” Nash Channing.
I wrote about the first generation of eclectic Hollywood baby names for Nameberry last week. In more recent celebrity news:
- Thalia and Tommy Mottola welcomed a second child, son Matthew Alejandro. He joins big sister Sabrina at home;
- Tia Mowry and Cory Hardrict welcomed a son, son Cree Taylor. Tia and her twin sister Tamera are starring in their own reality show on Style later this summer, so we could hear much more about baby Cree;
- Denise Richards adopted a daughter, Eloise Joni. Joni honors Denise’s mom, while Eloise was picked by big sisters Sam J, called Sami, and Lola Rose;
- Yes, it’s fake. But it is funny to see not-Victoria and not-David Beckham ponder baby names like Gucci, Milan, and Benditlike. (Love Elea’s quote from the Facebook page: “They could go Ancient Greek and pronounce it ben-deet-LEE-kay.”
Tomorrow’s post for Nameberry is the first in another two-parter, and it features one of my favorite names for a boy: Clark.
That’s all for this week. As always, thanks for reading and have a great week!
Cree Hardrict has to be the most difficult name to say aloud ever.
Thanks for the mention Abby! We’re having so much fun with this game, and I’m loving some of the unexpected sibsets.
Also, I want to invite all App Mtn readers to enter in our contest to win an adorable name print of your choice. You can even get up to four children’s names on it! http://nameberry.com/blog/nameberry-style-win-a-gorgeous-name-art-print
And a Happy Canada Day weekend to those of us in Canada!
P.S. If it wasn’t so universally disliked I would use Clarence in a heartbeat.
Since you mentioned big families, here’s one with rather well-named kids;
Fitz
Florence
Tuppy (Tuppence?)
Millie
Clara
Octavia
Theo
Cecily
Beatrice
Mum is a high-flying city professional of some sort, her husband is a stay-at-home dad and a Buddhist priest; sounds like the recipe for a perfect reality tv show, no? The names are a bit cliche straight-out-of-the-Telegraph-birth-announcements-I-own-three-ponies-and-attend-Eton but I do love Clara, Theo, Cecily and Beatrice!
See here http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-429019/Baby-No-8-City-supermum.html and http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/article-1189733/THE-INTERVIEW-Reluctant-superwoman-Helena-Morrissey-scorns-sexy-new-investments.html
Haha, is “intrigued by” good or bad?
Thanks for the mention, either way! It does seem to be getting easier as we go up the list (which is why I started doing three names)…wonder why that is?
I LOVE that Denise Richards’ children chose the name of their new baby sis. What a prettily named sibset they make!
I am absolutely loving Bewitching Names’ Americana names for July; they are amazing. Actually I just adore her whole blog. I just don’t seem to be able to leave comments, so I think I will have to get a Gmail account in order to chat with Blogspot chums.
The story on the Bonnells seems to be going like hotcakes – I guess people really like hearing about very large families! Luckily the Bonnells are not on reality TV, they seem so unspoiled.
Why thank you! A few people have mentioned the comments thing. I didn’t know that blogger had an issue with that when I made the blog, sorry. Anyways, thanks for reading! I’ve been introduced to new monikers thanks to your blog as well!
Ta! As soon as I can I’ll get myself a Gmail account so I can leave a few comments.
Thanks for the mention, Abby! Mrs Beckham is scheduled to have her C-section today so little Benditlike should be here soon…
Oh, I CANNOT wait …
I had thought of Cathal as a possible “Naming a Son the Pickett-Smith way” after a Catherine…which probably gives it the more feminine sound.
How would you pron. Merida…with a MER sound like Meridian or with more of a MARE sound like Meredith?
The city in Mexico is pronounced MER-ee-duh and the city in Spain is pronounced MEH-ree-thah, but as for which pronunciation they use for the movie… who knows?
Also I LOVE Eloise…though Cree sounds a bit incomplete to me. :\