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Rerun Week: Day Two
Thanks to Fran for encouraging me to go back and clean up this one – a personal favorite of mine: Penelope.
Please read the reboot – and comment – here!
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Rerun Week: Day One
One of the first posts I ever wrote was about the mythological moniker Ariadne. Nancy tells us that 101 girls received this name in 2009. That’s nothing compared to the many called Arianna and Adriana.
Read the reboot here. And please add your comments to the original post!
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Announcing Rerun Week
Back in May 2008, I didn’t give any thought to how I’d manage things down the road. You know, when I’d written nearly one thousand posts. And had tons of readers and comments, for which I’m truly grateful.
It did cross my mind that the stats I cited in May 2008 were 2006 numbers – and that they’d eventually be outdated. And, of course, that new trends would emerge, trends I couldn’t quite wrap my head around in 2008.
There’s also the fact that I wanted to go to the beach this summer!
So this week I’m not posting new Baby Names of the Day. But I have rebooted five of my earlier posts, each of which definitely needed some polishing and revising. I’ll post a link to one of those each day.
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Sunday Summary: 8/22/10
Please tell me that I’m not the only person who watched My Fake Fiance, the first pairing of Melissa Joan Hart and Joey Lawrence? It was raining, the baby was fussy … wait, never mind. Someone else must’ve tuned in – enough of us for ABC Family to greenlight a new original series called Melissa & Joey. The series premiered this week, and this time I didn’t watch. But I did Google enough to learn that Joey is a manny to Mel’s orphaned niece and nephew. The boy is called Ryder and the girl? Her name is Lennox! The actress playing Lennox is named Taylor, so maybe Lennox isn’t so outrageous. Plus, there’s the china. And a very minor Agatha Christie character was a girl called Lenox Tamplin. But if this one starts appearing embroidered in pink, it’ll be a surprise.
Speaking of character names:
- Jason Bateman plays Wally in The Switch. The cute kid answers to Sebastian, but that’s a solid Top 100 pick these days. Will Bateman breathe new life into Walter and Wallace?
- The Nanny McPhee sequel gives us kids called Norman, Megsie, Vincent, and their London cousins Cyril and Celia. The young actors’ names are interesting, too – Asa Butterfield played Norman, and Eros Vlahos played Cyril. Aggie – the baby from the first Nanny McPhee flick – also features in the plot, though she’s all grown up. In the 2005 movie, Aggie was played by twins named Hebe and Zinnia. That’s quite a pair!
While we’re on the subject on sibsets:
- This month’s issue of Real Simple featured an office makeover for a mom of five girls: Tabatha, Mabel, Annabelle, Evalyn, and Rachael, plus baby boy Leo;
- Babynamelover brings us a great set of TWELVE from the Telegraph: The birth announcement for Florentina Emilie revealed that she’s a sister for Georgina, Christopher, Charlie, Clementina, Gabriella, Montgomery, Cordelia, Angelina, Seraphina, Decima, and Delphine. I love that they used Decima for baby #10;
- Nameberry explored celeb sibsets that tend towards the quirky and creative. Tamerlane, Kansas, and Judah for a girl make the lists.
Elsewhere online:
- Names for Real spotted a Prairie Taylor. Muppet aside, I stand by my comments from the post about Meadow – this is one nature name I thoroughly enjoy;
- Here’s an intriguing smoosh: Sebastiane spotted a Hannabeth in Alabama;
- There’s a fascinating analysis by Nancy on Strong Names/Weak Names for boys, backed up with mucho data from 2009. It’s a much more productive approach than insisting that Kelly is a boy’s name. (Except that I still think it is. In fact my new hair stylist is a guy called Kelly from Texas. But I did hair stylist, not auto mechanic or lion tamer.)
- Leelee Sobieski calls daughter Louisanna by the nickame Louie – that’s no surprise. Except that she spells it Lewi, which I don’t get.
And lastly, the name was released for Paz Vega’s third child, son Lenon, a little brother for Orson and Ava.
But here’s the important news: next week is re-run week here at Appellation Mountain. I periodically try to update posts from 2008 because, you know, time marches on. But I’ve never done so in a systematic way. So instead of a new post, look for a week’s worth of revamped, revised, and re-invigorated names.
Things get back to the normal – meaning new posts – on Monday, August 30.
Thanks for reading, and have a great week!
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Baby Name of the Day: Santiago
He’s a chart topper in Buenos Aires, and he graces the map throughout the Spanish-speaking world.
Thanks to Kristine for suggesting the dashing Santiago as Baby Name of the Day.
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Tags: James, Anne, Giacomo, Diego, Jago, Jacob, Iago, Romeo, Orlando, Jacques, Emilio, Sinjin, St. John, Santiago, Ernest, Tiago, Diago, Paulo, Iacobus
Baby Name of the Day: Aura
She’s a golden goddess with a musical air.
Thanks to Elta for suggesting Aura as Baby Name of the Day.
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Tags: Aurelia, Luna, Gordon, Lyra, Lee, Trinity, Elvis, Ornella, Aura
Baby Name of the Day: Mathilde
Take the fashionably French Vivienne, mix it with the Aussie hipster Matilda, and what do you get?
Thanks to Frances for suggesting the appealing Mathilde as Baby Name of the Day.
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Tags: Isabelle, Isobel, Mathilda, Mathilde, Teresa, Theresa, Madison, Edward, Vivienne, Matilda, Maud, Kimora, Sandra, Adeline, Philippa, Tillie, Tilda, Tilly, Thérèse, Matilde, Laeticia, Wilhelmine, Mechtilde
Baby Name of the Day: Thorsten
Thurston was a shipwrecked billionaire, Thor is a Norse god, and Dustin was big in the 80s. Could this related name take off today?
Thanks to UrbanAngel for suggesting Thorsten as Baby Name of the Day.
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Tags: Jayden, Gunnar, Tory, Dustin, Thurston, Thor, Thorsten, Torsten, Boniface, Thorstein, Torstein
Baby Name of the Day: Shoshanna
If you saw box office smash Inglorious Basterds, you heard fictional Nazi bad guy Hans Landa call out this name in a grisly, memorable opening sequence.
If Stella is a star, why not Shoshanna? Thanks to Serenity for suggesting our Baby Name of the Day.
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Tags: Savannah, Isabella, Stella, Ingrid, Suzanne, Susannah, Susanna, Susan, Sue, Sanne, Hans, Silas, Daniel, Shoshannah, Sosie, Emmanuelle, Romy, Quentin, Shoshanna, Shoshana, Jerry, Mélanie, Christoph