Posts Tagged ‘Joseph’

Happy Father’s Day!  In a mash-up of dad-centric stories/baby name news, I bring you:

MSNBC’s story on the pluses and perils of being a Junior.  The predictable story?  There are good and bad things to sharing your name with Pop.  The interesting takeaway?  The percentage of juniors has been dropping for at least forty years or [...]


Happy Memorial Day weekend!  Here’s wishing you fair skies for your weekend festivities.  But if you do find yourself with a few spare minutes in front of a computer screen, here are a few diversions:

First, my question of the week:  What goes with Henry?  I recently met a family with teenage twins, Henry and Lucy. [...]


First of all, thank you, Anne Heche, for following up Homer with Atlas.  She may not be a mega-celeb, but she sure knows how to pick outstanding starbaby names.  Is it too soon to call Atlas the new Atticus?

Someone reading this post must surely have the chops to win Baby Name Wizard’s 2008 Baby Name Pool. [...]


The big news of the week?  Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck have welcomed daughter number two.  But they still haven’t revealed her name!  If you haven’t voted, check out the Nameberry blog contest.


That’s right – nearly two weeks after we heard that Mark Wahlberg and Rhea Durham welcomed their newest family member, we’ve learned his name:  Brendan Joseph.
We weren’t expecting anything outlandish from the couple, since they’ve kept it simple with their other two kids’ names:  Ella Rae and Michael.  No word on whether the name honors [...]


It’s been a big two weeks for celebrity baby naming.
We had high hopes for Soleil Moon Frye and Jason Goldberg’s second daughter.  Their firstborn, Poet Sienna Rose, is nicely named.  Sure, it’s a little unconventional.  But if you grew up playing an impish orphan called Punky, what are the odds that you’ll go with a [...]


Are you a Brooks Brothers button-down kind of guy?  Do you like your Thanksgiving turkey served on grandmother’s china with monogrammed table linens?   Are you longing for a Silver Cross pram to take your new baby boy for a constitutional in the park?
If so, perhaps you’d like to consider one of the four boys’ names [...]