Drew Barrymore's baby name

[pepperingram]

I totally understand how you feel in one sense. Clover is my absolute favourite name right now. It's such a strong favourite that I can definitely see me using it on my firstborn daughter. I adore it, and have done for about 5 years now. However, with the rise in popularity of nature names, I do worry about where it will be in the rankings when I come to have children. It's possible that It could be another 8 or so years before I have children, and by then Clover could be the new Isabella. When I was younger I loved Isabella because it sounded old-fashioned and pretty. Then it got super popular and as an adult I wouldn't use it. Sometimes it bums me out when I consider how Clover will be in the future, but then I remember that it's completely stupid to think like that. I might love completely different names when I come to having children, so I will worry about it then. Alongside Clover, my second favourite girls name was Harper. In fact, I have loved it for longer than Clover since I met a little girl with the middle name Harper. Then the Beckhams used it, and it ruined it for good (trust me, in the UK Harper was nowhere to be seen before this, and we really love the Beckhams here!). I know that celebrity choices shouldn't matter, and perhaps I will love Harper again when I come to have children because 8 years on and Harper might have dropped in popularity after the boom from the Beckhams. But still, it was vaguely annoying.

I have come to love the name Harbor now, as a substitute for Harper. But I am not sure even a A list celebrity would knock my love for Clover. Please tell us your favourite name. Its funny that you think one mention in one thread on one messageboard in the whole WWW will affect your names popularity!

[sunniva]

I have a feeling Drew will use something gender-neutral, quirky, and/or a namesake.

Clover's nice, but I think it's far too cutesy feminine for Drew to ever want to go near it. I think you're safe there.

[titch]

I think the name you are worried about is Lark or Wren. Am I correct? :-)

[betsy buttercup]

LMAO.

First, can I tell you how funny I find this thread?

OMG, Drew Barrymore is going to steal my baby name. I JUST KNOW IT!!

Lmao, especially how there's multiple posts on it. Do you even know if Drew is having a girl?


With that said I could def see her choosing Clover. Maybe she's perusing this board right now getting ideas from this very thread (so you better not post your real choice!) JK. I'm quite curious what name you have in mind that you are so afraid she is going to choose. Hmm, if we guessed it right, would you tell us?

The most up and coming nature name I can think of is Juniper. What else, hmm, maybe Lilac, Meadow. I've heard Primrose a few times (very saccharine).

Hey, haven't you heard? Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not watching you . Seriously though, every other name I've loved for a girl has been "celeb stolen," so why not this one too? And also, who's to say celebrities AREN'T perusing this very board? There's no special separate internet for the rich and famous; why's it so crazy to think that they'd come here for naming inspiration?

I definitely don't see her choosing Clover as Clover has been chosen by two minor celebrity couples in the past year. It seems like when a person is really well established and well known famous and has any bit of known quirkiness, they never pick a name that anyone else famous has used recently. Juniper maybe, I don't know of any famous people with baby Junipers, but it seems like it's too on the rise in the naming world. Meadow I think is too common. Lilac was my second favorite name when I was pregnant with my first son, but his name is Eli and there's no way I could have a Lilac. Maybe Drew would have a Lilac?

The name on the top of my list right now hasn't been mentioned yet on this thread. But I'm not saying any more about it!

Blairx, I do like all those gemstone names a lot in theory, like if I met a girl with any of those names I'd be really impressed, but the individual sounds are not my style.

[betsy buttercup]

I have come to love the name Harbor now, as a substitute for Harper. But I am not sure even a A list celebrity would knock my love for Clover. Please tell us your favourite name. Its funny that you think one mention in one thread on one messageboard in the whole WWW will affect your names popularity!

Harbor is a cool name! I kinda think it's boyish, though, but I think Harper is kinda boyish, too. I was really surprised when the Beckhams went with Harper, it seemed too mainstream and trendy for them. I thought they'd go really weird!

It's not that I think mentioning the name I like on this thread will blow up my name in popularity, it's just a few weeks ago when I still wasn't sure I was totally done with Clover, I posted on here about it and after I did that the name showed up HUGE on the "being searched right now" part of the front page of Nameberry, and I felt like throwing up! I know it didn't affect the long-term popularity of it or anything, but I don't want to see my new favorite on the front page any time soon!

[plum and peridot]

Drew Barrymore is having a baby? Get. Out. Of. Here!!! I am so out of the loop!

[weegingerfaerie]

I named my daughter Ivy then next year it became really popular. This daughter will be Wren, i can see it becoming more popualr as well but these have been the names i wanted for a long time so while i was disappointed when Beyonce used it it had already became more popular anyway.

At least i'm a fan of Drew so if she did use Wren again i would be a little sad that the name would be more common i can't see it ever being hugely popular...

[ummokayyeah]

Well I just read on the front page that Natasha Gregson Wagner & Barry Watson (from 7th Heaven) named their new baby Clover, so it's already starting for that name! Funny.

[betsy buttercup]

Yeah, I know, that was the last straw with Clover that finally made me give it up. It had been popping up all over the place before that, though. Did you see the nameberry blog post on Father's Day names, talking about cool names famous dads gave their kids? It mentions the other celeb who used Clover last year, Neal McDonough, and says the name Clover is beginning to "spread like wildfire." Seriously! Are you kidding me? After all this time, all these pregnancies of hoping for Clover and waiting for Clover and imagining Clover, and every year imagining what people would think of such a "crazy" unique name, all the while worrying it would catch on and be popular, and now that I'm finally having a girl, THIS is the year it explodes? After I found out I was having boy #3 two years ago, I briefly gave up the name Clover as my favorite girl name, thinking that maybe we weren't supposed to have a Clover and that we wouldn't have a daughter until I found another name. I guess maybe I was right after all!!!