Baby Name of the Day: Lilith

Lilith (1892) by John Collier in Southport Atk...

Lilith (1892) by John Collier; Image via Wikipedia

She’s the original first wife scorned, a woman often considered evil – or maybe just too bold for her times.

Thanks to Tara and Heather for suggesting Lilith as our Baby Name of the Day.

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Baby Name of the Day: Liliane

The garden of girls contains no bloom more favored than Lily.  Add in the growing interest in appellations française, and what do you get?

Thanks to Kristine for suggesting Liliane as Baby Name of the Day.

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Sunday Summary: 3/7/10

First, thanks to Pam and Linda at Nameberry for running my guest post on Movie Award Names: Looking beyond OscarLilia, Magali, Denholm, Tahar … I could’ve gone on for pages.

Speaking of winners, whilst channel surfing earlier this week, I caught an episode of Toddlers and Tiaras featuring BFFs turned rivals, Jacee and Mayce.  I like Macy, but find Jaycee a touch too civic to wear.  But here’s the thing – neither of those spellings immediately suggests the correct sound.  I think I’d say JAH see and mace, like the weapon, except that I can guess what they’re meant to be.  Maycee, sure.  Jaycie, okay.  But Jacee and Mayce, IMHO, fail some essential test about phonetic transparency.

Not that that’s anything new.

And of course, I watched the two-part special episode of The Office just to hear the baby’s name.  Pam and Jim Halpert are now parents to Cecilia Marie.  Cecilia ranked #270 in 2008, and seemed to have plateau’d.  I suspect she’ll rise in 2010, because even though Nancy’s advice to Turn Off Your TV When Choosing Bad Names is sound, pop culture is powerful.

Elsewhere online:

Here’s the starbaby news, via Celebrity Baby Blog:

Drumroll please!  It’s time to enter the 5th Annual Baby Name Wizard 2009 Baby Name Pool! Guess three fastest rising and three fastest falling names and win bragging rights.  Serious bragging rights.  Entries are due April 15.

That’s all for this week – thanks for reading!