Christmas came early to Appellation Mountain, with a guest post on Nameberry leading to a shout-out from Lisa Belkin’s venerable The Motherlode blog at the New York Times. Christmas also officially arrived in our town – a tree was lit in the City’s park, we had breakfast with Santa, and we spent a few hours […]
READ MORE >>Sunday Summary: 11/14/10
I used to spend lots of time at Yahoo! Answers, dismayed at the number of posters planning to name their triplets Maddasynne, Mykailee, and Madduxx. Or so they said. Now I try to stay away, but every now and again, I slip. During my last lurking foray, I found a lengthy list of names one […]
READ MORE >>Thank you!
About a year into writing Appellation Mountain, I stopped checking the site’s stats. I’d become a bit obsessed with it, wondering why I wasn’t doing better than so-and-so, or worried that I wasn’t ranking higher in search engines. Then I stopped looking … and you kept reading, and telling your friends. I can still see […]
READ MORE >>Reader Baby Name Story: The Nickname Came First
Today’s story comes to us from Sara. She had the opposite problem from so many of us – she and husband knew what they wanted to call their daughter, but had to agree on what to write on her birth certificate. My husband and I love names that are a bit unusual, but not too […]
READ MORE >>Sunday Summary: 9/12/10
Let’s start a handful of picks from pop culture: first, True Blood’s werewolf Alcide. He joined the cast in Season Three and will be back in Season Four. If Sookie recently attracted attention, how about this romantic French spin on the Greek Alcaeus? I’m also intrigued by Katniss, the heroine of the bestselling young adult […]
READ MORE >>Baby Name of the Day: Nan
She’s as simple as Mae, as retro as Nell. Thanks to Nan for suggesting her own appellation for Baby Name of the Day.
READ MORE >>Top 1000 US Baby Names for 2009 Released
Been to the US Social Security website yet today?
READ MORE >>Baby Name of the Day: Zebedee
Zach is heard everywhere.
READ MORE >>Sunday Summary: 2/14/10
Happy Valentine’s Day! Which reminds me, a new ABC series called Happy Town will premier in late April.
READ MORE >>Yea or Nay: Denali
With all the talk of Twilight names, here’s one that rarely comes up in conversation: Denali. It’s not worn by a character, but a coven – another family of vegetarian vamps. Alaska’s Mount McKinley is the highest peak in North America, at the center of Denali National Park and Preserve. Before it was named after […]
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