Baby Name of the Day: Greil

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Guitars by Tuppus via Flickr

You might find this name on the pages of Rolling Stone or The Village Voice.  How would it look on your child’s birth certificate?

Thanks to Janelle for suggesting Greil as our Baby Name of the Day.

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Baby Name of the Day: Camden

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Cross Cameron with London and you’ll end up with this rapidly rising choice.

Thanks to Tracy for suggesting the only name her husband likes.  Our Baby Name of the Day is Camden.

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Sunday Summary: 8/29/10

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, and the like.  I also heard a girl called Cooper and another girl named Gracen or Graycen or maybe Gracyn.  Thanks for checking out Rerun Week while I was slathering on sunscreen!

In the meantime, a new neighbor has arrived and her kids names?  Be still my heart: Nella and Arlo.  I haven’t actually met them (she joined a listserv for local moms) but I might hug her.

Also in the real world, the incredibly talented Brooke at Dinkypopsnomore is now mom to two!  The incredibly photogenic, more-stylish-at-3-than-I-am-at-37 Temperance is big sister to Verity BlytheSee the post about her name here.

Elsewhere online:

In starbaby news:

  • Let’s hear it for the double palindrome power of Ava Katherine Otto, a new daughter for country singer James Otto and wife Amy;
  • Actor Matt Walton – he plays Eli on One Life To Live – has an Ava, too, plus a brand new son called Greyson James.  Greyson is the new Jayden. Add up all the boys called Greyson and Grayson, plus the girls wearing a variant of sound-alike Gracen, and you have the formula for a gender-neutral, hard-to-gauge usage name that every parent thinks is uncommon.  Too bad, because I do love Gray;
  • Army Wives’ Catherine Bell has a new son called Ronan, a little sister for Gemma.  That’s a nice sibset, a pair of names that are underused, but not outlandish;
  • And the big news is the birth of Florence Rose Endellion, a daughter for UK Prime Minister David Cameron, his wife Samantha, and three older siblings: the late Ivan, plus Nancy, and Arthur Elwen.  For a humorous and insightful look on place names popping up on birth certificates, there’s this News & Star column. Capri and Dublin, yes.  St. Bees Flimby Pie?  Probably not;
  • Lastly, the best use of Twitter for baby naming since Erykah Badu live-tweeted the birth of her third child and claimed she was calling her Twittymilk surely goes to Neil Patrick Harris’ twins teaser. That’s an instant sibset I can’t wait to learn.

As always, thanks for reading!

Baby Name of the Day: Dylan

An American icon and a 90s heartthrob helped propel this poetic choice into the US Top 50.

Thanks to Urban Angel for suggesting Dylan as Baby Name of the Day.

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Sunday Summary: 2/28/10

As I write this, a friend of mine is in labor.  Not only has she not found out if it is a boy or a girl, she and her husband are keeping their final name choices secret until they meet their new little person.

Readers, the suspense is killing me.

In the meantime, I’m amusing myself with a few links:

In starbaby news, besides the arrival of Padma Lakshmi’s daughter Krishna Thea:

Lastly, I usually disagree with the Name Lady, but I laughed out loud when I read her recent column of questions from her inbox.  My favorite is this:  “I chose my daughter’s name when I saw it graffitied on a truck when I was pregnant with her so I don’t know it’s history. What can you share about this name?”

I’m laughing so hard I actually forgot about my friend and her as-yet-unnamed-newborn.

That’s all for now.  Have a great week, and thanks for reading!

Name of the Day: Macsen

If Jackson’s popularity spurred the use of Jax, will the fashionable Max encourage parents to consider this one?

Thanks to Mneme for suggesting Macsen as Name of the Day.

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Hurricane Names

It’s not really baby naming news – it’s meteorological, potentially catastrophic even.

And yet I can’t resist posting the 2009 list of Hurricane Names.

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