The Hottest Celebrity-Inspired Baby Names 2011

I like a handful of these.
For the boys: Leonard is wicked cool in a geeky sort of way.
Arlo is awesome, Imre’s neat & Miles is slick (but good slick, I swear!).
For the girls, there’s even fewer: Cosima, Sabrina & Penny, as a nickname.

Leonard Cohen’s name is Cohen not Coen.

Harlow (daughter of Nicole Richie) was left off the list. Harlow made its first appearance on the top 1000 list as a girl’s name in 2009, the year after Ms. Richie’s daughter was born.

I am so upset that Jason Schwartzman used Marlowe, because I SO thought of it first. I just don’t have a kid to bestow it on. Maybe I can still use it for a character.

Can it really be “celebrity character” naming if said character is shakespearean? Unless I’m missing something, it seems like that would fall firmly into “literary naming” rather than celebrity naming — whereas the Harry Potter names are at least recent…

No one is using Cohen for Leonard Cohen. People just think it’s a cool biblical name. Personally I think it’s a cool last name for my dermatologist.

I love Ophelia!! Ooh I’m also digging Rooney.
And I really love Owen Wilson’s son’s name, Ford. It’s so masculine and overall great.
But, I heard when he was on Jay Leno that his son’s name is actually Robert Ford, and they call him Ford, not Ford Linton. Although Linton is a cool name.

Well, M, if you’re Canadian you might be using Cohen after Leonard Cohen. I know someone who has, in fact. He’s a big deal here. But I do think a lot of these names are a stretch as far as being “celebrity-inspired.”

Surely Leonard is popular because of the character in the big bang theory? And Cohen is popular from the OC?

I might have expected Rooney to have become a popular boy name because of the soccer star. But if it’s now been associated with a girl, then it will probably be off the table for boys.

I kind of like Zadie, it’s cute and spunky, like Zoey. I work with a girl who named her daughter Anniston, they call her Annie. I think since Jennifer Lopez named her daughter Emme, some people are starting to think of using Emme instead of Emma. I’ve heard the name come up a couple of times, I think people are starting to look at it as a legit name and not just a nickname.

I love these names I have 4 children already 1 boy ace-junior and 2 girls ever-grace and fawn-aviah I am pregnant with twins one of each and like the names Flynn-alexo and fleur-nevadah what do you guys think I have never liked the traditional names I think there so boring and too commen in my fa
Ily there a hardly any traditional names my husband is finnigane-march and my name is Zaiydah rosabelle

I love Rooney, but I live in Pittsburgh Pa, and Like Rooney Mara people around here are named Rooney for the Rooney’s that own the Steelers (she is the grandaughter of a Rooney) and they are a very big deal here!

I love Nala but my 18 year old cousin is called Camille Nahla but goes by Nala Camryn.