Posts Tagged ‘Alexandra’

My week at the beach was spent listening for names (well, there was ice cream and sand and a giant waterslide called the Hippo) but I didn’t hear much.  There was a Veronica nicknamed Vera, but mostly it was the pleasant Top 100 assortment of Ethan, Dylan, Emma, Riley, Noah, Chloe, Caleb, Jackson, Zachary, Ellie, [...]


Christina had her moment in the 80s.  Valentine shows up every February 14.  But how ’bout this elegant choice? Thanks to Mary for suggesting Valentina as Baby Name of the Day. Share this: Email StumbleUpon Digg Reddit Print Facebook Press This


She’s at home in the White House.  He’s a widely-recognized celebritot. Thanks to Kelly for suggesting the surprisingly gender-neutral Sasha as Name of the Day. Share this: Email StumbleUpon Digg Reddit Print Facebook Press This


The baby boom continues at AppMtn.  Congratulations to Emmy Jo on the birth of her son, Julius! Have you been reading all of those press releases by this hospital or that about the most popular names of 2009?  They haven’t been terribly exciting, but I’m reading them anyhow.  This one caught my attention, not because [...]


If you’ve reviewed the Top 20 Boys’ Names of the Day, you might recall that it was a mix of names that are, indeed, rising in use for our sons and those that are probably mere curiosities. The girls’ list tends more towards the wearable, but there are a few surprises. Share this: Email StumbleUpon [...]


Here at AppMtn, it isn’t so very unusual to receive an outraged email or comment after I’ve said something less than flattering about a name.  The longer I write, the more keenly I think about the fact that these names are worn by real human beings. So it is doubly thrilling when I write something [...]


First, congratulations to reader Photoqulity for a successful showing of her work Fuzzhead by DP at the Newport News Fall Festival of Folklife.  Her bibs rock! Now, back to our regularly scheduled programming. True fact: I can recite the original text of Where the Wild Things Are.  From memory.  (And yet I regularly forget my [...]


My neighborhood is filled with expectant parents.  A few know about my baby name obsession; others, not so much.  I know that politeness dictates that I greet all joyful news of babies-on-the-way with the following: Congratulations!  How are you feeling? Instead, I really want to say: Do you have names picked out? So I wonder, [...]


You named your first doll Alexandra. When you wrote short stories, the heroine was always called Alexandra. Back in college, when you and your girlfriends imagined you future kids, yours was always called – you guessed it! – Alexandra. Now you’re expecting and it’s a girl. Only it feels like every other parent has stolen [...]