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2010′s Most Popular Names: Sophia, Aiden and Isabella Top The List… Again
Five years from now, grade schools across the country are going to be filled with little Aidens. Babycenter.com has released the top ranking baby names in 2010 for both girls and boys. And topping the...
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Wilgefortis? Philemon? In Search of the Perfect Christian Name
The Pope is advocating for Christian baby names. What’s a parent looking for a Christian moniker, but striving for something more unique than Mary, to do? In response to Pope Benedict XVI’s statement...
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Prospective Parents, Take Note: America’s 10 Most Hated Baby Names
It’s probably a good idea not to give your child one of the most-maligned first names in America. Laura Wattenberg, author of a book entitled The Baby Name Wizard: A Magical Method for Finding the...
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Top 10 Baby Names for 2011: Inspired by ‘Twilight’ and ‘Teen Mom’
Phenomena such as Twilight and Teen Mom have shown the true, semi-shocking breadth of their influence in the government’s analysis of baby-naming last year. Isabella and Jacob, names of the female...
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Unusual Baby Names Aren’t Just for Celebs: Israeli Couple Name Their Baby ‘Like’
Whatever happened to naming your kid Anne or John? Lior and Vardit Adler might have taken a cue from the Egyptian man, Jamal Ibrahim, who named his daughter “Facebook” in honor of the role social media...
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Kate Hudson Names Her Baby Boy Bingham Hawn Bellamy
Let the odd celebrity baby name brigade continue on. Kate Hudson and fiancee Matt Bellamy have at last named their newborn baby boy: Bingham “Bing” Hawn Bellamy. The infant was born on Saturday, though...
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A Lucifer By Any Other Name Would Be Legal in New Zealand
Kids can be devils sometimes, can’t they? Well, not in New Zealand, they can’t. New Zealand’s Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages has now rejected three parents’ requests to name their new babies...
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Soccer Player, Inspired by Twitter, Names Son ‘Trendy’
It's the latest addition to the growing list of ridiculous baby names emerging from today’s social media-crazed world.
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Kyren, Anya, Envy and More: America’s First Baby Names of 2012
Adelyn, Elliot, Kay’lyn, Connor. What do these names have in common, aside from their six letters? They are all names of babies born on New Year’s Day in hospitals across the country. Each year while...
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Governments Crack Down on Offbeat Baby Names
We recently welcomed Blue Ivy Carter to the world, but if she’d been born in another country, Jay-Z and Beyoncé might have been legally obligated to choose a different name. As nearly every American...
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Uma Thurman Gave Her Daughter Seven Names
World, meet Rosalind Arusha Arkadina Altalune Florence Thurman-Busson.
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New Zealand Updates List of Banned Baby Names
King, Princess, Prince. Just because your own little darling is a sweet princess in your eyes doesn’t mean the government of New Zealand will let you name your newborn baby that. This week, the...
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Jacob and Sophia Top Baby Names for 2012
The Social Security Administration just released its list of the most popular baby names for 2012, and Jacob and Sophia top the list. It’s not the first time either name has shown up on the list....
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Judge: ‘Messiah’ Is Not an Acceptable Baby Name
In the U.S., all kinds of wacky baby names are totally fair game — especially among celebrity parents. (See: Diva Thin Muffin Pigeen Zappa, Moroccan Cannon, North West, etc.) But now, there’s...
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People Are Naming Their Kids After Breaking Bad Characters
Continuing in the grand tradition of people naming their children after Twilight characters, parents are again turning to Hollywood to decide what they should call their offspring. Now, though,...
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Oh, Have You Met My Kids, Panda, Phone and Cheese? The Weirdest Baby Names of...
So, we already know that people are naming their kids after characters on TV shows like Breaking Bad and Homeland. But then there are the parents who’ve decided to stray from the norm, get creative and...
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This Interactive Map Shows How Baby Names Have Spread Nationwide
This interactive map shows how the popularity of baby names has spread across the U.S. from the early 1900s to the present. Type in a name, and see how common it is in different geographic regions...
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