Happy April!
First, a very warm thank you to Michelle Horton (also known as Early Mama) for including Appellation Mountain in her best baby name blogs round-up.
It’s fascinating to spend so much of my time in a niche that didn’t even exist just a few years ago.
Elsewhere online:
- Let’s open up with two timely names from Nancy: a baby named April Fool, and another girl named Lottery Lament – except Lament is her married name.
- No, Hunger Games names are NOT going to be huge. Yes, there will be a few girls called Katniss – maybe a few more than Renesmee. But Twilight doesn’t get credit for the popularity of Isabella and Jacob. There’s a whole post in this …
- I’ve been addicted to Anna’s posts about the Bonds Baby Search. Some of the girls’ names are fabulous – Fidelia, for one and I like Xara, Havana, and Bo Louise, too. Others are over-the-top – Akira Swansea Phaeowyn, Jypzee-Lee …
- And from her boys’ list, I’m fond of Alex Egidio and Magnus, but Jylen Zeppelin-James and I’m not sure what to think about Coda.
- Love Bella Betty Jean, London Josephine, River Grey, and Ramona Gertrude from this Names4Real post.
- Which reminds me, will the London Olympics boost London as a baby name? I’m inclined to think so …
- This Upswing Baby Names challenge has me intrigued. I guessed Virginia, but there were some other interesting guesses.
- From Nameberry this week, I remain fascinated by Galatea and Bessica.
- Design Mom has a give-away from Paloma’s Nest. Not only are her creations terribly stylish, but the names on her site are gorgeous: Luc, Daley, Laurel, Arthur Eliot.
That’s all for today. As always, thank you for reading, and have a great week!
I had a dog called Fidelio, after the opera. He ended up being called Fiddle. He was adopted by a new family as Fidelio. They independently nicknamed him Fiddle. Fiddle as in violin is sweet, but the other fiddle…
I’d be steering well clear of Fidelia…as lovely as it is.
Well fiddle dee dee. 🙂
I like Koda as a nickname for Dakota. I actually know a few boys who use it
Love River Grey! Coda is a big NO-NO for me. In the Deaf community, CODA stands for “Child(ren) of Deaf Adults”. It refers specifically to hearing children born to deaf people…it isn’t a negative thing at all but to meet a child named Coda would just seem strange and feel so wrong.
Coda is also a musical term.
My own name is a common acronym for a number of organisations.
At least little Lottery Lament can go by the super cute Lottie. River Grey is gross to me and makes me think of it as literally a gray river (like murky and polluted). I prefer Gray to Grace ten-fold, but here I think River Grace would be better. Oh wait is it even a girl?
River Grey is a boy …
Still makes me think of mucky pollution… Adjective names shouldn’t be used with noun names IMO (ahem, Ivy Blue).