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Latest Celebrity Babies
Add your comment | March 26, 2012 | Filed under: Celebrity babies, Names in the news | Written by: LukeWhat’s been happening in celebrityville this week? Well, on Tuesday 22nd March, singer and actress Hilary Duff gave birth to her son, Luca Cruz Comrie. She twittered “We are overjoyed and feel like the luckiest parents in the world. He is surrounded by so much love!! Mom and baby are both doing extremely well.” The [...]
Taboo Names
Add your comment | March 23, 2012 | Filed under: General names, Name popularity | Written by: LukeToday I read a comment about Natalie Portman’s baby, Aleph, which pointed out a spelling mistake in a newspaper article, (they had called the baby ‘Adelph.’) The commenter went onto say that they might as well have replaced the ‘e’ for an ‘o’ and called him Adolph. This got me thinking (and chuckling) about the [...]
Drawing Inspiration From Multi-Cultural Names
Add your comment | March 9, 2012 | Filed under: General names, Name popularity | Written by: LukeWhen searching for baby names, we take inspiration from all around us whether we realise it or not. I love exotic sounding baby names and ones which suggest a history, like Scheherazade which has roots in Egypt and Arabia. For this blog post I thought I’d look at popular baby names in a few other [...]
Beat The Trends
Add your comment | March 2, 2012 | Filed under: General names, Name popularity | Written by: LukeWith so many baby names trends going in and out of fashion, how do you beat the trends before they start? Well, a good way to predict future trends is to examine the current ones and predict how they will change and develop in the coming years. Right now we’re hearing more and more old-fashioned [...]
Effects of a Name
Add your comment | February 24, 2012 | Filed under: Blogroll, General names, Name popularity | Written by: LukeSomeone’s name is a huge part of their identity, including the first thing you usually reveal about yourself to strangers. So it’s not surprising that parents take such care over choosing a name for their child. Now studies show that a baby’s name can actually affect their personalities and behaviour later in life! So with [...]
Surnames as First Names?
Add your comment | February 10, 2012 | Filed under: General names, Name popularity | Written by: LukeIn 2012, a big trend for baby naming is set to be naming your child after a famous person’s surname. While to me this sounds like a horrible infliction on a child, (this might be because I have a terrible surname!) there are some celebrities and parents alike who love this new craze. Obviously there [...]
Initial Problems
Add your comment | February 2, 2012 | Filed under: Blogroll, General names | Written by: LukeWhen naming your baby, how much thought do you give to their future initials? Most people would probably answer, ‘not very much’ but is it important to make sure you don’t accidently give your child initials which could get them teased? For example, Albert Stephen Smith could spell out trouble for your little one when [...]
Surname Woes
Add your comment | January 31, 2012 | Filed under: Blogroll, General names | Written by: LukeWe can’t all be blessed with beautiful sounding surnames, so how important is it to get your baby’s first name to sound ‘right’ with it? You might have had a perfect name in your head since you were a child yourself, but now you’ve married someone with a surname that really doesn’t go with that [...]
Feeling Blue?
Add your comment | January 16, 2012 | Filed under: Celebrity babies, Names in the news | Written by: LukeEver since Beyoncé announced her pregnancy at the MTV Video Music Awards, speculation has been ripe over what name she will choose for her baby. The star gave birth on Saturday 9th January in Roosevelt hospital by C section and announced the baby’s name as Blue Ivy Carter. This mix of traditional and modern is [...]
Keeping It In The Family
Add your comment | January 12, 2012 | Filed under: Blogroll, General names | Written by: LukeWhat do you use as inspiration for your baby name? A favourite character in a book or film? An influential person from history, perhaps? I have to wonder whether family names come into the deciding process more than we realise. When you ask people about the names in their family, you can almost be sure [...]