Category: Baby Name News
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By Abby Sandel, AppellationMountain
I know that Hollywood isn’t one great big playdate, with A-list moms and reality starlets alike pushing their designer strollers through the park together. There’s no reason to think that Blue Ivy Carter and Tennessee Toth will attend the same preschool, or that Tori Spelling and Angelina Jolie are trading tips on managing big families.
Which is a long way of saying that of course sometimes one set of high-profile parents will choose the same name that some other headline-worthy couple chose.
To spectators, those repeats can seem significant. Tabloids accuse Blake Lively of stealing a Garner-Affleck baby name. We declare names The Next Big Thing if it pops up on lots of celeb birth announcements.
By Linda Rosenkrantz
The HBO show Girls is back, and whether you love it, hate it, or couldn’t care less, you’ve got to admit that it has probably the most interesting, eccentric, original roster of character and cast member names ever seen on TV.
First of all there are the four main characters, who each just happen to have a strikingly alliterative name: Hannah Helene Horvath, Jessa Johansson, Marnie Marie Michaels, and Shoshanna Shapiro, played by actresses named Lena, Jemima, Allison and Zosia. And guys named Adam and Ray and Elijah played by Adam and Alex and Andrew.
By Abby Sandel, Appellation Mountain
The way we name boys is changing, and that’s a good thing.
For years, parents played it safe when naming their sons. We were more likely to pass down family names, and less likely to choose something really different or novel.
Why? Maybe we worried that boys were more likely to be teased for a different name. Or maybe we applied the Supreme Court Justice test more strictly to our boys than our girls.
By Abby Sandel, Appellation Mountain
Imagine you’re famous.
And expecting.
Whether you’re an Oscar-nominated actress or a reality show contestant who was voted out after a few episodes, you have two choices to make when it comes to your child’s name: the name itself, of course, and how to share it with the world.
Or make that if you’ll share it with the world. Plenty of celebrities Tweet or Instagram their good news, or announce it through a publicist. But then there are those who just don’t share.
