So much for our earlier reporting via metro.co.uk - the official Charlotte Church website was just updated with the actual full name of Little Miss Henson:
Both names are very British, doing away with recent trends in exotic baby naming.
The name Ruby is taken from the vocabulary word for the red gemstone.
Megan is a traditional Welsh name that means ‘little pearl’. A good choice, Charlotte!
EDIT: The name has been revealed - click here!
Charlotte Church, who gave birth to a baby girl on Thursday night, is holding out before revealing the child’s name.
With ridiculous amounts of money on the line courtesy of celeb magazines, Charlotte has decided to only reveal her new daughter’s middle name - Maria.
The name means ‘star of the sea‘, and is a Latin form of an ancient Hebrew name.
Stay tuned to BabyNames.co.uk blog for the juice on Charlotte’s name choice.
I just found this story at TulsaWorld, originating from way back last century. Adorably, a pair of twins were named Ok and Lahoma. How’s that for local patriotism?
After three days of calling Lahoma’s twin “Little Guy” Albert Williams finally decided on a name. They already had Lahoma, why not complete it with Ok?That is the story of Lahoma and her twin brother Ok as told by Woodward resident Lahoma Williams Grunewald.
Grunewald said that she and her brother Ok, who passed away at the age of 91, were inseparable. Their mother joked that she thought they would still be holding hands by the time the went to high school.
This is a fairly innovative way of naming twins, so how about these suggestions - Gladesh, Tralia, Esota… Uzbeki?
A new bill in Venezuela looks set to ban the use of all baby names, apart from a list of 100 approved monikers.
The bill’s ambition, according to a draft submitted to municipal offices here for review, is to “preserve the equilibrium and integral development of the child” by preventing parents from giving newborns names that expose them to ridicule or are “extravagant or hard to pronounce in the official language,” Spanish.
The bill will also eliminate unisex names that leave doubts as to the holder’s gender.
The authorities may yet bend to public will. Germán Yépez, an official with the National Electoral Council, said the measure originated after children were given names like Superman and Batman. Still, he said in comments broadcast on radio, he welcomed “this type of positive reaction and suggestions.”
Not everyone denounces the bill. Temutchin del Espíritu Santo Rojas Fernández, 25, a computer programmer, explained that his first name was inspired by the birth name of Genghis Khan, often spelled Temujin in English. He said he frequently had to correct the spelling of his name on official documents.
This is a pretty shocking move, and as against ridiculous names as I am, I think that choice is of huge importance.
