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Baby Name Juniper: Spirited Nature Name

January 21, 2021 By appellationmountain 24 Comments

baby name Juniper

The baby name Juniper has gone from intriguing rarity to established favorite. NATURE NAME The Latin juniperus refers to a family of evergreen tress and shrubs. They grow in Nevada and Africa and the Himalayas, the Arctic and Tibet and beyond. We’ve been borrowing names from nature for generations. Ecovintage picks like Violet and Rose […]

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Baby Name Blossom: Energetic and Floral

December 22, 2020 By appellationmountain 11 Comments

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The baby name Blossom mixes a certain quirky, mid-century vibe with plenty of energy and positive meaning. Thanks to Gwen for suggesting our Baby Name of the Day. BLOOM Strictly speaking, to blossom means to thrive. It was blotsma in thirteenth century English and blomi in Old Norse. On first hearing, the baby name Blossom […]

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Baby Name Hendrix: Traditional and Edgy

December 15, 2020 By appellationmountain 3 Comments

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The baby name Hendrix feels like the next Jackson. Thanks to Allison for suggesting our Baby Name of the Day. HENRY’S BROTHER It’s no secret that this surname name comes from the evergreen Henry The popular classic started out as a Germanic name – something like Heimrich. Then the Normans imported it to England. The […]

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Baby Name Iris: Hopeful and Elegant

December 10, 2020 By appellationmountain 26 Comments

baby name Iris

The baby name Iris traveled from ancient myth to the garden by way of a rainbow. Our Baby Name of the Day was inspired by this list. MESSENGER GODDESS Long before the baby name Iris bloomed among the garden of botanical girl names, it belonged to a goddess. Iris means rainbow in Greek, and in […]

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Beatles Baby Names: Lucy, Eleanor, Jude

May 13, 2020 By appellationmountain 24 Comments

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The Beatles may have played their last show long ago, but Beatles baby names still top the popularity charts. Their music occupies a special place in popular culture. In their heyday, the band was so famous that everyone knew their songs. More than fifty years after the release of Abbey Road, we all recognize the […]

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Spring Song Title Showdown: Iris Wins!

April 28, 2020 By appellationmountain Leave a Comment

Our Spring Song Title Showdown has come to a conclusion, and we have a winner. And get this: just three votes put the winning name over the top. Those three little votes earned Iris the crown. WHAT’S ALL THIS ABOUT? A few weeks ago, we started working our way through sixteen girl names, all drawn […]

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Spring Song Title Showdown: The Final!

April 25, 2020 By appellationmountain Leave a Comment

The votes are in, and we’ve narrowed it down to just two final names. I’m so excited, because the finalists are both great choices – as songs and as names. They’re also very 2020. Both are short and complete, names that might be called traditional, even vintage. But they’re also perfectly on-trend and at-home in […]

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Spring Song Title Showdown: SemiFinals

April 21, 2020 By appellationmountain 1 Comment

The votes are in! We’ve narrowed our list from sixteen great girl names from pop song titles to eight. And now, just four remain. Let’s look back on the last round. Lucy dominated again, sweeping past Rhiannon with just over 65% of the vote. This one surprised me! In a close contest, Mary managed to […]

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Spring Song Title Showdown: QuarterFinals

April 18, 2020 By appellationmountain 2 Comments

Song Title Showdown: QuarterFinals

Because we all need a little distraction these days, I present the Spring Song Title Showdown. We’re voting our way through girl names from hit song titles. They’re drawn from the 1960s into the early 2000s, and I’m guessing LOTS of these have you singing along. We started with sixteen names. You can read the […]

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Avril: Baby Name of the Day

April 1, 2020 By appellationmountain 8 Comments

Avril: Baby Name of the Day

Avril brings to mind all things springtime and hopeful. Our Baby Name of the Day celebrates the first day of April and the season that lies ahead. APRIL This name comes straight from the pages of the calendar. In Ancient Rome, the month of Aprilis was dedicated to Venus. It’s theorized that the word comes […]

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