Baby Name News: 3/10/13

March 10, 2013

Do you dream of names?  I woke up thinking about Torrance, the perky cheerleader character played by Kirsten Dunst in 2000′s Bring it On.  Torrance could be a great name, another way to get to Tori, though her name was rarely shortened in the movie.  It’s a place name and a surname and far less [...]

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Baby Name News: 3/3/13

March 3, 2013

Many of us want names that stand out, and I completely understand that we mean different things when we say, “I want an unusual name.” But quotes like these set my teeth on edge: “We like Kasen for a boy and Emersyn for a girl.  Both on the top 100 list but I think they’re [...]

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Baby Name News: 2/24/13

February 24, 2013

Let’s start this week with a predicament: Swistle tries to help another family trying to avoid trendy names, when their tastes run to Camden and Avery, Beckett and Hadley. I love this quote: Here is what I think is making you stuck: you want to avoid trendy, common names, but your tastes are absolutely on-trend. [...]

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Baby Name News: 2/17/13

February 17, 2013

Confession: we are in Disney World again.  I keep thinking we’ll get creative with our vacations at some point, but our conversations about get-aways tend to go two directions.  The beach, if it is warm enough to swim in the ocean.  Disney if it is not. And Disney is name-spotting paradise.  In the space of [...]

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Baby Name News: 2/10/13

February 10, 2013

It’s February – my least and most favorite month at once.  Least, because the weather can be brutal.  Most, because if I’ve made it to February, Spring is right around the corner.  Plus, I can see the days getting longer every evening. Of course, it does mean that we may not get to see winter [...]

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Baby Name News: 2/3/13

February 3, 2013

A few years ago, I left home without my grocery store loyalty card.  It was one of those stock-the-pantry trips, so when I reached the register sans card, I hated to check out without it.  The cashier handed me an application, and in a moment of whimsy, I filled out another name: Cordelia Chase. She’s [...]

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Baby Name News: 1/27/13

January 27, 2013

Happy Sunday!  Thanks for all of your kind thoughts on yesterday’s post.  This is such a great community! Now, a dilemma: in 2011, March Madness launched at this site.  It’s a contest amongst all of the most-read posts for the past year, where we vote until we have our favorites.  The 2012 champions were Arthur [...]

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Baby Name News: 1/20/13

January 20, 2013

Hello!  This post is going live much later than usual thanks to our Big Family Adventure of the day.  We went to Medieval Times.  We wore the paper crowns.  We cheered for our knight.  We ordered blue slushies in light-up cups.  (One can safely assume that the blue slushies were not authentic.)  And so I [...]

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Baby Name News: 1/13/13

January 13, 2013

Welcome to 2013!  I keep accidentally dating posts 2012.  Are you having the same trouble? My New Year’s Resolution is to finish cleaning up the site.  It’s been eight months since The Big Move to self-hosting, and there are still broken links galore, as well as some incomplete posts.  If you stumble on a post [...]

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Baby Name News: 1/6/13

January 6, 2013

Have you been following the naming controversy in Iceland? It is all over the baby name news lately.  Like many nations, parents must choose from an approved list of names.  A committee handles appeals to go off-list. Fifteen years ago,  Bjork decided to name her daughter Blaer.  To American ears, that’s Blair, and a completely [...]

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