BabyNames.com founder and CEO Jennifer Moss talks about finding cool names in your family tree. Jennifer Moss says she was able to find some really cool names from her own family tree. She also says using last names as first names is a popular trend. Take a look:
Can the names celebrities select for their babies influence other parents? It sure looks that way. A recent study of New York baby names found Jayden at #2. Jayden is the name of Britney Spears second child.
As they search for the perfect name, many New Yorkers look to the stars. Pop singer Rhianna (#70), British actresses Sienna (#60) and Keira (#61) and American screen stars Scarlett (#68), Charlize (#84) and Reese (#142) all made the list. Suri (#83) and Jayden (#2), names chosen by celebrity parents Will Smith and Katie Holmes, also left an impression on New Yorkers.
Here's the top list of baby names out of New York City.
MOST POPULAR BABY NAMES NEW YORK CITY, 2007
Rank
Girls
Boys
1
Isabella/Sophia(Tied)
Daniel
2
Emily
Jayden
3
Ashley
Michael
4
Sarah
Matthew
5
Kayla
Justin
6
Mia
Joshua
7
Olivia
David
8
Samantha
Anthony
9
Rachel
Christopher
10
Madison
Joseph
Total
63,081
65,880
Gothamist has an informative article on the New York baby name report. You can find the official report here on the nyc.gov website.
Babies Being Named After Barack Obama In Kenya, U.S.
Tuesday night's victory for Barack Obama is proving to be very inspirational in Kenya. The CNN video below talkes about Kenyan mothers naming their newborns Barack, Obama or Michelle. Barack Obama is also inspiring baby names in the U.S.
The BBC reports that there has been an Olympic baby naming frenzy in China over the past decade or so. Over 4,000 children in China have been given the name Aoyun, - which means Olympic Games. It is mostly boys who are being given the name.
The rise in popularity of the name is seen as a sign of support for the Games being staged in August in Beijing.
Officials in charge of identity cards say that more than 92% of the 4,104 registered Aoyuns are boys.
It is not uncommon for Chinese children to be given names of common events and popular slogans - such as Defend China, Build the Nation and Space Travel.
There are 290,798 registered Civilisations.
There has also been a surge in the Aoyun name recently. The BBC says another naming has emerged following the recent earthquake tragedy and that name is "Hope for Sichuan."
Brooklyn Elizabeth Threinen, born on February 29 in Scottsdale, AZ, was the winner of Domino's Pizza's BRKLYN Leap Year contest. The Threinen family was the first to contact Domino's regarding the birth of their Leap Year newborn, Brooklyn and won $1,000 in Domino's pizza gift certificates.
"In honor of Domino's BRKLYN (Brooklyn-style pizza), we've been celebrating everything "Brooklyn," including Leap Day newborn, Brooklyn Elizabeth Threinen," said Jenny Fouracre, Domino's Pizza spokesperson. "We created this promotion to honor Leap Year babies and their families whose love of the old neighborhood inspired them to name their children after it."
The Courier Lifehas more on the contest and apparently Domino's was going to give $1,000 of pizza money to the first Leap Year baby named Brooklyn. That's ok because the name is growing in popularity - even Posh Spice is using it.
Brooklyn may seem like a kooky name for a baby but it's gaining in popularity.
Even international soccer phenom David Beckham and his wife Victoria Beckham, aka Posh Spice, named one of their boys after the borough - reportedly because Victoria was in town when she learned she was expecting.
Brooklyn sure is a cute baby. It sounds like Brooklyn's parents will be eating plenty of pizza during the first year or two of her life.
Silicon Valley Sleuth reports on a couple baby-related incidents at Google.
Firstly a Google software engineer in Seattle, heavily gravid but officially not yet ready to pop, missed a day in the office. Concerned a colleague called her home, and was told that she was having contractions but that everything was fine and not to worry.
Fifteen minutes later however and everything was not fine. The friend got a call to get over thee fast as everything was happening in a rush. He headed straight for her house and got her in his car but before he could get out the driveway the baby popped into the world. Mother and new son are going fine.
In the second case one of Google's Mountain View office technical writers was driving into work when she was flagged over by a panic stricken dad to be. His wife was giving birth in the front seat of his SUV (think of the upholstery!) with "a grandmotherly sort had a panic-stricken look on her face and her hands out to catch the baby." She stayed and calmed down the dad and within ten minutes Google has witnessed its second premature birth.
Maybe something is going on at Google or it is just that Google stories tend to show up in blogs and news more frequently because the company is so popular and powerful these days. There's also at least one baby named Google. Little Google Kai probably won't be the last.
Can the names celebrities select for their babies influence other parents? It sure looks that way. A recent study of New York baby names found Jayden at #2. Jayden is the name of Britney Spears second child.
Brooklyn Elizabeth Threinen, born on February 29 in Scottsdale, AZ, was the winner of Domino's Pizza's BRKLYN Leap Year contest. The Threinen family was the first to contact Domino's regarding the birth of their Leap Year newborn, Brooklyn and won $1,000 in Domino's pizza gift certificates.
