Comments on: The Name Game: Celebrity Babies with Celebrity Names

By: Shirelle

Shirelle — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:05:29 +0000

I love the name Harlow!

By: Susan

Susan — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:40:56 +0000

For some reason I felt compelled to see what the meaning of some names were and came up to this website. It was quite interesting to see what others thought. Our 4-year-old daughter is Noa Kaelyn. Oddly enough we don’t even know any boys named Noah!
During my pregnancy we received much criticism (we were even told we had time to change our minds!), but ever since her birth people comment how feminine “Noa” sounds. We love it. She’s girly, petite and beautiful, with her fair complexion and slightly curly long dark hair (half caucasian and asian).

We considered Sophia, Jocelyn, Elise, etc., wanting strong yet sweet womanly names. And it had to be a name my foreign grandmother could pronounce.
We had an Italian Greyhound we named “Eva” (Ava) which was short for Evanescence (not a huge fan of the band, but the definition of the word is quite fitting for the breed).

My husband (David) and I (Susan) have such common “boring” names that we wanted our child to have more thought behind her name. Her vibrant, decisive personality now brings me hope that she won’t fade in the background in life (I was severely shy and timid growing up). She is strong, yet sweet and thoughtful; a good balance with her name. No regrets for our final choice!

By: Marie

Marie — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:24:58 +0000

My three children are named after our favourite Old Hollywood movie stars (we’re two classic movie buffs).
The eldest is Lauren Katharine (named after great Lauren Bacall and Katharine Hepburn)
The middle one is Greta Louise (named after Greta Garbo and Louise Brooks)
The youngest is Charles Bogart (being named after Charlie Chaplin and Humphrey Bogart)

If Charlie was a girl we would have named her Tallulah Marlene (after the wild Tallulah Bankhead and Marlene Dietrich).

I didn’t know Bruce Willis’ daughter was named after Tallulah Bankhead, so it was a great surprise!

By: Christine s m

Christine s m — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:07:15 +0000

Jessica i love your son’s names!
Me and my husband chose sort of different names for our sons as well.
Ryder Anthony, Lyric Thomas, Spencer Bronx, Poet Jason, & London Cristopher

By: Christina Bledsoe

Christina Bledsoe — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:12:58 +0000

I really like the name Viggo. Viggo Mortensen is the first time I heard it.

By: María Alejandra Sepúlveda

María Alejandra Sepúlveda — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:26:59 +0000

Hi everyone!
I from Chile (SouthAmerica), no kids yet, but I want names that they can use in all countries.
If there is a girl: Josefina (Josephine in english), Camila (like my cousin), Sofia (Sophia in english), Magdalena & Asunción. (biblical names, I’m catholic)
And for boys: Sebastián (middle name of my cousin Oliver), Lucas (good for all languages), Pablo (Paul in english), Ramiro & Vicente.

Here we don’t change our last name when we get married, also we got 2 last name (1st last name from dad & 2nd from mom).
So, all my life I gonna be María Alejandra Sepúlveda González.

By: heather

heather — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:57:50 +0000

I grew up watching horror movies, vampires, monsters, and things like that, so in 2002 when I had my twins i named them Buffy and Craven (boy/girl) I love the names and no one around where we live has them (unlike my sister’s son Noah, there are six other Noah’s in his class, all born in ’99) I was 19 and single, and now my and my new husband are talking about kids, and we are already discussing names. His older two kids have simple traditional names and we want names inspired by the 90s music, so we are thinking Ezra (for a boy) and Emerson (for a girl).

By: Irisheyes

Irisheyes — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:50:47 +0000

I am a fan of old but unusual names for children. When I was pregnant I had decided to name my daughter Jude Eleanor (after the Beatles’ “Hey Jude” and “Eleanor Rigby”) However, once she was born it didn’t seem to fit her. We ended up naming her Clarabelle Margret. Supergirly, unique, and totally fitting of her personality. (Hoping she doesn’t hate me one day for it) My son is Nathan Anthony. We decided a boy needs a strong name to carry him though life. There are not very many Nate’s around anymore. I think people feel it is too common.

By: lydia

lydia — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 19:13:11 +0000

I am inspired by European names: Celeste, Cecelia, Francoise, Alexi, Bijou, Bianca, Anica

The celebrity baby names I really like are:
Violet, Harlow, Leni,

By: anon

anon — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 13:19:13 +0000

from wiki:

Noa (Hebrew: נועה, Noa; or נעה, Nōʿā), is a feminine Hebrew name, derived from a root that means “movement”. The name is used in the Hebrew Bible for one of the daughters of Zelophehad. Noa is commonly confused with Noah (Hebrew: נח), an unrelated masculine name known from the biblical story about Noah’s ark.

Noa is also Arabic[citation needed] and Japanese with the meaning of “with love”[citation needed].

“Noa” is also a masculine Polynesian name (though not commonly used).