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Looking for Names of the Day

May 18, 2008 By appellationmountain Leave a Comment

Looking at the ApMtn calendar for next week, the Names of the Day cupboard is bare after Sunday. So help us out … post a name, and we’ll use it next week. Thanks in advance for all of your creative and thoughtful ideas!

Emily: NOT the Most Popular Name in the US

May 17, 2008 By appellationmountain 6 Comments

Okay, nameniks – you’ve been pouring over the new Top 1000 ever since the Social Security Administration released it a few days ago, right? Of course you have. Here at ApMtn, thanks to a prompt from coolteamblt, we decided to run some numbers. And our big revelation from this year’s list? Emily is not, in […]

Name of the Day: Cady

May 15, 2008 By appellationmountain 8 Comments

Today’s name is either an interesting surname choice, or another morph of the super-trendy monolithic girls name MaKaylalyencelee. Cady caught our eye a zillion years ago as the maiden name of abolitionist and suffragette Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She died before women were granted the vote – and long before women were viable candidates for the […]

Name of the Day: Tuesday

May 13, 2008 By appellationmountain 4 Comments

Tuesday’s child is full of grace, or so goes the old Mother Goose rhyme. And so perhaps, should your darling daughter join the world on a Tuesday, you’ll consider this unusual, but appealing, moniker. Tuesday has never appeared in the Top 1000 in the US. But unlike some choices, it will never be misspelled or […]

Simple, Sweet and Stuck in the Middle

May 8, 2008 By appellationmountain 9 Comments

We’ve written about middle names before. But today, we’ve decided to offer a fairly simple list for your consideration. While many of these are gender neutral, this list was compiled with girls in mind. For decades, parents have stuffed an unimaginative Anne or Lynne between the first and last names. More recently, Grace and Rose […]

Baby Name of the Day: Rhys

May 6, 2008 By appellationmountain 42 Comments

Editor’s note: This post was originally published on May 6, 2008 and substantially revised on November 15, 2011. He’s a short, storied name for boys that brings to mind peanut butter cups and Hollywood actresses. But he should conjure up images of Wales. Our Baby Name of the Day is Rhys.