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Lewis and Sophie names of choice in Scotland in 2007
Add your comment | December 19, 2007 | Filed under: Names in the news | Written by: LukeThe most popular baby names in Scotland this year have been revealed. Lewis has returned to the top spot for boys, pushing last year’s winner, Jack, into second place, the Registrar General for Scotland said. For girls, Sophie is the most popular name for the third year in a row with Emma remaining in second [...]
Mohammed set to dominate UK boy’s names
Add your comment | December 19, 2007 | Filed under: Names in the news | Written by: LukeThe Telegraph today features an article on Mohammed’s assault on the top boy’s names in the UK. The name, when all variants are added together, is just a few hundred from top spot. Mohammed is on course to become the most popular boys’ name in England and Wales by next year. The high birth rate [...]
Names and Grades – are they connected?
1 comment | December 3, 2007 | Filed under: General names | Written by: LukeIt’s interesting to consider the effect that one’s name, or label as it were, has on day to day life. Names can certainly cause people to stand out, blend in, appear masculine, feminine, intelligent, sporty or even nerdy. The question is, do names have a more profound effect on one of the most fundamental of [...]
Robert Rodriguez likes the letter R
Add your comment | December 3, 2007 | Filed under: Celebrity babies | Written by: LukeRobert Rodriguez. A fairly normal sounding name, boasting alliteration of the double-R’d kind. Not much to see here. Or so I thought… …Until today, however, when I discovered the famed director’s love of the letter R. See below: Rocket, Racer, Rebel, Rogue, Rhiannon. A random list of words from the same section of the dictionary? The cast [...]
More crazy celebrity baby names
1 comment | December 3, 2007 | Filed under: Celebrity babies | Written by: LukeA recent post over at TeamSugar features a great compilation of celebrity baby names, including some gems that I hadn’t come across before. Pirate Jonathan Davis, lead singer of Korn’s son Tu Morrow Rob Morrow’s daughter Reign Beau Ving Rhames’s daughter Moxie CrimeFighter Penn of Penn & Teller’s daughter Jermajesty Jermaine Jackson’s son Satchel Woody Allen & Mia Farrow’s son Dweezil Frank Zappa’s son
Milla Jovovich explains Ever Gabo’s name
Add your comment | December 3, 2007 | Filed under: Celebrity babies | Written by: LukeMilla Jovovich has updated her website with her reasoning for Ever Gabo, the name of her new baby. “The name Ever is a Scottish boy’s name, Paul has Scottish blood in him (not to mention two tartans in his family!) so we wanted to give her a name that reflected her “celtic” roots, while her middle [...]
Cracking down on baby names – Chaser’s War
Add your comment | December 2, 2007 | Filed under: General names | Written by: LukeI just stumbled across this great video from Chaser’s War. It presents what I think is a great idea – baby name wardens with a public presence issuing on-the-spot fines! Brilliant.