Pamela Redmond is the cocreator and CEO of Nameberry and Baby Name DNA. The coauthor of ten groundbreaking 

, Redmond is an internationally-recognized baby name expert, quoted and published widely in such media outlets as the 

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Redmond is also a New York Times bestselling novelist whose books include 

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Sophie Kihm has been writing for Nameberry since 2015. She has contributed stories on the 

. Sophie is Nameberry’s resident Name Guru to the Stars, where she suggests names for celebrity babies. She also manages the Nameberry 

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A character from Gregory Maguire's novel <em>Wicked</em> and the subsequent musical. It possible comes from the word <em>avarice</em> meaning "extreme desire for material wearth", but other possibilities could be that it comes from the Manx name Averick, meaning "dappled" or from Avery meaning "ruler of the elves"

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