Jul
02
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Lorain County Moms
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We’re always coming across names on nameberry that we never thought of before, undiscovered gems that suddenly seem attractive and eminently usable for a real live person.
How come everyone flocks to Ava and Aiden, or even Avery and Atticus, when there are so many names like this hiding in plain sight? Beats us.
Here, the first in a series of names you might not have considered … but definitely should.
ABIJAH A Biblical name used in the Colonial times that can work for both boys and girls. Rhymes with Elijah, stands in for that name or Abigail.
AMORET Redolent of love, this unusual name comes from...
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Jun
22
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Lorain County Moms
In honor of the rapidly approaching Father’s Day, we present today’s guest blogger Brian Sargent, the stay-at-home dad of now-four-year-old twin girls and a third-grader and the author of lookydaddy.com.
My wife and I knew it would be tough to name twin girls, so we assigned ourselves jobs. My wife’s job was to suggest possible names for consideration. My job was to say I didn’t like them.
Not to be immodest, but I did my job well.
“Rebecca.”
“No.”
“Jocelyn.”
“No.”
“Hester.”
“You’re not even trying, anymore, are you?”
I did...
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Jun
21
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Lorain County Moms
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A Nameberry visitor commented recently that she loved ultra-feminine proper names with tomboyish nicknames. That’s a sentiment we echo.
If you’re torn between girls’ names with a conventionally female image and ones that sound more androgynous, these choices have it all. They give you (and your daughter) the choice between going totally girly and sidestepping conventional gender identity, at least when it comes to your name.
Some very feminine names with tomboyish nicknames are:
Alexandra — Alex
Allegra — Al
Antonia — Toni
Araminta or Arabella...
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Jun
01
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Lorain County Moms
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The recent spate of celebrities having twins (they’re not really just like us, are they?) got me thinking about twin names. Now that you can no longer go for cutesy pairs like Merry and Joy or Tim and Tom, how can you find twin names that have a strong unifying element yet are distinct from each other, special in their own right?
One way: Search for names that carry a similar meaning, one that symbolizes something important to you or for your child, and then go on from that list to pick the two most compatible choices. I love playing with nameberry.com’s “search names by meaning” feature, which you should discover for yourself if you haven’t already. Clicking on any of the larger...
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May
27
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Lorain County Moms
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Maybe it’s because we’ve been planning our summer vacation, but the idea of exotic place names sounds very appealing right now. Options can be found all over the map. A selection we’d like to visit, figuratively and literally:
AFRICA: Most obviously, the name of the continent, but there was also a Celtic queen named Affrica.
BIMINI: Caribbean Island name is cute and casual. Pronunciation: bim-in-ee.
BRAZIL: Also spelled Brasil, this Celtic saint’s name also references the South American country.
CUBA: Cuba Gooding Jr. put this one on the map (sorry, couldn’t resist). Another option: Havana.
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Apr
22
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Lorain County Moms
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Love a name but fear it’s overused? Think one name is stylish, yet want something even more stylish?
You’re not alone. Many parents are looking for names that are like those that have been popular and fashionable in recent years … but different. Something with a similar look and feel, but in an updated model.
For example:
ADELAIDE or ADELINE are the new ADDISON
BYRON is the new BRIAN
CHLOE is the new ZOE
CHRISTIAN is the new CHRISTOPHER
CLARA is the new CLAIRE
CORA, DORA and FLORA are the new LAURA and...
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Apr
19
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Lorain County Moms
I remember once meeting a completely adorable curly-headed little toddler named Percy. And suddenly the image of his name was turned on its head and for the first time I could see the hidden, quirky charms of Percy. It’s like when extreme he-man Bear Grylls called his son Marmaduke — one of the ultimate prissy-sissy names — all he could see ahead for his son was the cool nickname Duke (of course he did call his next one Huckleberry).
There’s a whole group of names like this that used to be described by antiquated terms we’d never dream of using today — like namby-pamby and pantywaists — sterotyped as such in old books and movies. Since that’s now such ancient history, I’m wondering, as I think of that cute little Percy, if any...
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Apr
03
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One thing we learned when we wrote about hipster baby names is that nobody wants one. Many people were horrified if they found their favorite names — or worse, their actual children’s names — on our list of hipster names. No matter how much they’d loved the name before, they immediately went in search of something new, something different, something with a bit less of the whiff of hipsterdom about it.
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Mar
27
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Ooh-la-la. Tra-la-la. What sounds could be more lilting, more rhythmic, more energetic than these? This is surely one reason why parents — both celebrities and civilians — are flocking to names with double L-starting syllables, such as:
LILY. This is the most classic of the bunch, a lovely flower name that has re-blossomed in the last several years, and has been given some modern celeb cred by singer Lily Allen. We’ve counted at least eight recent starbaby Lilys — and that doesn’t even count Lou Diamond Phillips’ LILI, Chris O’Donnell’s LILLY and Johnny Depp’s LILY-ROSE. The more formal versions, LILLIAN and LILIANA, are also showing signs of rebirth.
LILAC is another floral option,...
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Mar
19
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OK, I’m going to come right out and say it: There are now officially enough little girls with the middle name Rose.
I can hear the screams of protest and wails of anguish already: But Rose is my grandmother’s name! Rose goes perfectly with my favorite first name! I’ve been planning to use the middle name Rose forever!
Well, go ahead, then. It’s a perfectly lovely name, warm and feminine yet not overly assertive, making the ideal bridge between first name and last.
But so many thousands of parents have used it over the past decade that it’s become the Ann, the Marie, the Sue of the new millennium. Consider the celebrity babies alone with the middle name Rose:
AIDAN...
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