Comments on: Marion and Tabitha: Behind the Parker-Broderick's Name Choices

By: Marion

Marion — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:07:52 +0000

I love my name and the spelling. Shame on those people that are knocking the names. They are not your children, so who cares what you think. It just goes to show, people are never happy. All they do is find fault. Congrats to the new parents.

By: MariAn spelled correctly

MariAn spelled correctly — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:14:43 +0000

Marion/Marian has been used for years as a name for girls or boys. However, the correct spelling for a girl is Marian, while a male is Marion. I am not surprised at the name SJP selected, just the spelling. All the best to them.

By: TabithasMom

TabithasMom — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:19:19 +0000

SJP stole that name from me. My Tabitha and I ran into her in NYC last year. I suppose I should feel honored, but I feel ripped off.

By: MiB

MiB — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:45:00 +0000

I love their first names! And as a friend of mine said after she was critizised for choosing an “old mans name” for her son “Maybe it’s because that’s what I want him to become one day!”

With regards to the different numbers of middle names, my mother is the youngest of five: three of them have a middle name, two of them don’t and the only one who has complained about her name is my mom, and her complaint was, that her name wasn’t picked especially for her (she was an oops! twin, so her twin sister got the chosen name and she was named after her grandmothers). No one in the family can remember any of the 2 sisters without a middle name (one of them is my mothers twin sister) questioning why they didn’t get a middle name.

By: Marion

Marion — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:57:01 +0000

I am another 20-year-old Marion from France. Super popular name in the late 80s in France so I find it funny to read that it’s a grandma name in the US.

By: Laurel

Laurel — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:36:37 +0000

Yuck, and yuck. Sorry, but really, yuck!

By: Ali

Ali — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:41:26 +0000

“Tabitha Hodge” totally has the sound of a children’s book character It always reminds me of a Peter Rabbit & Friends character.

By: Terri

Terri — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:37:48 +0000

I love the name Tabitha.

By: Lioness

Lioness — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:49:51 +0000

I’m not sure what people were expecting- I mean, their son’s name is James. Says everything about their name choices to me, lol. Anyway, Tabitha isn’t so bad, and I don’t really mind that one has two middle names and the other doesn’t- it’s not like they have to follow some name formula or something. But Marion or Loretta I’ve never liked.

By: Jane

Jane — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:43:19 +0000

Perhaps Tabitha does have a second middle name, the surrogate mother’s middle name, and the Parker Brodericks just haven’t released it to respect her privacy?

I like them both, so much better than Bronx Mowgli or Peanut!