Baby Name of the Day: Ilo

letter i

Image by Leo Reynolds via Flickr

There’s been much buzz about the newly coined Ily, but how ’bout this one?

Thanks to Emma for suggesting Ilo as Baby Name of the Day.

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Baby Name of the Day: Verena

Coat of arms of Stäfa (Zürich, Switzerland)

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She’s another obscure saint with a German heritage vibe.  But she might also make for a surprisingly wearable virtue choice circa 2010.

Thanks to Fran for suggesting Verena as Baby Name of the Day.

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Sunday Summary: 1/10/10

First, congratulations to JNE on welcoming Imogen’s little brother, the nicely named Oliver George!

Aly turned five on December 17, but we finally got around to throwing his birthday party this weekend.  We invited his whole pre-K.  (No, the party was not in our house.  Our guests wouldn’t fit in our house, even standing still.)  

Anyway, I knew his classmate Micah was a girl.  (Lest that trouble you, the Biblical Micaiah is a gender neutral name  - the original Peyton.)  But imagine my surprise when I learned that Delayni is a boy.

In other random name spotting:

  • I met a baby Miriam;
  • Apparently an Australian family has a singleton (or two), two sets of quads and now twins born in October. And no reality show deal as of yet!  Darren and Dale Chalk named their kids Shelby, Matthew, Ellie, Joseph, Emma, Samuel, Alice, Sarah, Milly (who died in infancy) and Tiger-Lilly.  After solid classics like Alice and Joseph, the parents chose Tiger-Lilly feels a bit off, doesn’t it?  They have yet to release the twins’ names;
  • Could Lux be the next Zoe?  Life Unexpected debuts on the CW January 18.  Heroine Lux grows up in foster care.  The series begins when she finally finds the parents who put her up for adoption.  Another contender for baby name inspiration?  The dad is Nate Bazile, nicknamed Baze;
  • The latest series of The Bachelor includes contestants named Tenley, Valishia and Vienna.  (In DC, two of three names appear on a Metro Map.)  I can hear Tenley catching on.  But Vienna?  Pretty, but all I think is sausage.  Oh, and the bachelor this time is Jake;
  • For Real Baby Names spotted a Zoeanna – a new, but inevitable and not unappealing compound name.   But does it rhyme with Joanna or is it Zoe Anna?  There’s also a girl named Swift and and boy called Rugby;
  • Bewildertrix spotted a Vitalia.  Vidalia is an onion, but Vitalia is another of the lively Vita/Vida names;
  • For every local hospital releasing the generic “Emma, Aiden Top Baby Names at Hospital Center,” a few do post surprising results.  At the Greater Baltimore Medical Center, the top girls’ name was Mary.  At Cowlitz County, Washington’s Saint John’s Medical Center, it was Peyton/Payton/Paityn;
  • What a lovely surprise to stumble on a blog featuring four nicely named children – Mountain Mama Jenny is mom to Evelyn, Gretchen, Sylvia and Peter.

Elsewhere online:

And in starbaby news:

That’s all for this week.  Thanks, as always, for reading!

2009: Most Popular Girls’ Names at AppMtn

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.

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Name of the Day: Silas

Between aggressively literary picks like Atticus and undeniably Biblical ones like Nehemiah, there at least one boys’ name that quietly combines both qualities.

Thanks to SG for suggesting Silas as Name of the Day.

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2008′s Top Names of the Day

While we’re all waiting to hear the name of Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck’s new daughter, here’s a little distraction.  I tallied up the most read Names of the Day from 2008.  The results follow – a few are quite surprising!

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Name of the Day: Sylvia

Looking for a subtle nature name that’s been worn by a saint and a queen, with mythological and literary associations, too?  Today’s Name of the Day fulfills each and every requirement.

Thanks to Kim and Another for suggesting Sylvia.

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