They Wrecked My Baby Name!

Updated Wed Jan 30 2013

It was a headline we couldn’t resist: Names You Like That Have Been “Ruined” for You.

Visitors to the forum have as many ways their favorites have been ruined — by movies, celebrities, and insensitive friends — as they have lamented name loves.

The topic is so provocative we thought we’d open it up to everyone. What name has been wrecked for you, by whom and how?

(Twilight, we’re looking at you).

Photo by Nur Hussein via Flickr.

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Pamela Redmond is the cocreator and CEO of Nameberry and Baby Name DNA. The coauthor of ten groundbreaking books on names, Redmond is an internationally-recognized baby name expert, quoted and published widely in such media outlets as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Today Show, CNN, and the BBC. She has written about baby names for The Daily Beast, The Huffington Post, and People.

Redmond is also a New York Times bestselling novelist whose books include Younger, the basis for the hit television show, and its sequel, Older. She has three new books in the works.

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