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Wed Mar-24-10 08:57 PM
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The Elite's Top 50 Baby Names |
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This is so precious. Charlotte, Seraphina, Henry and Finn are baby names too cool for the most popular lists. Naming expert Pamela Redmond Satran ranks the best names coveted by style-conscious parents. http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-03-10/the-elites-top-50-baby-names/
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Wed Mar-24-10 09:08 PM
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1. Finn?? Maisie?? some people have too much money and too few ..... |
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Thu Mar-25-10 12:02 AM
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I must be elite.
Actually, Maisie is cute for a girl, but it's too cute for an adult.
But I like the name Finn.
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Thu Mar-25-10 06:35 AM
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10. I have a friend whose father from Norway was named "Finn" |
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and I worked with a woman whose daughter must now be in grade school is named "Maisie".
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Thu Mar-25-10 09:18 AM
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11. I like both of those names, I don't have too much money but I have plenty of... |
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Thu Mar-25-10 11:51 AM
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Thu Mar-25-10 12:50 PM
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26. Maisie is a very old English nickname. |
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It's been used for hundreds of years as a shorthand nickname for Margaret. My cousin, who is named Margaret, went by Macie (an alternate spelling) until she started her professional career after college. Lots of us still call her Macie when we see each other around the holidays.
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Thu Mar-25-10 01:26 PM
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30. In the old Ann Southern movie series, Masie was a nickname for Mary Anastasia. |
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Thu Mar-25-10 12:53 PM
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27. Maisie? We call it corn. nt |
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Thu Mar-25-10 01:27 PM
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31. I think Finn's a fantastic name. It was one of, if not my top, name for my son currently on his way. |
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But my wife nixed it. :P
Of course, I didn't like it because it was a high-class name or whatever. I wanted it because of the Irish mythological hero Finn MacCool.
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Wed Mar-24-10 09:19 PM
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2. Daddy? Mumsy? You named me Silas. |
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. (sound of shotgun racking)... .
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Thu Mar-25-10 12:56 AM
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4. Here's a pretty cool Old Time Radio (OTR) site. |
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. This links directly to about 2 dozen episodes of "The Adventures of Maisie" with Ann Sothern. . I LOVES me some OTR. . http://www.radiolovers.com/pages/adventuresofmaisie.htm.
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Thu Mar-25-10 12:59 AM
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5. Can't believe Ian isn't in there stupid people have the hardest time pronouncing it. |
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Its pronounced Ee-yun, not Eye-an. damn you Ian Ziering.
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Thu Mar-25-10 12:35 PM
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24. I wanted to spell my son's name Iain, but hubby wouldn't let me, citing |
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the likelihood of him getting called "I ain't."
So Ian it was. :)
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Thu Mar-25-10 03:33 PM
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Ian is a great name, it is helpful in knowing when a telemarketer calls. I've been called Ivan, Aaron, all you can imagine. My wife calls me In, which is what all the kids called me growing up. Don't mind that much. There was a joke, not a funny one but, it was: In go in the door. hahahah. yeah.
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Fri Mar-26-10 09:00 AM
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48. My younger son is an "Ian", too. |
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Thu Mar-25-10 01:40 AM
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6. This is a good list for someone looking for a good name for a cat. |
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And I don't mean just the obvious ones, like Milo (The Adventures of Milo and Otis) or Felix (The Cat) or Max (Max the Cat series).
Leo, Jasper, Stella- so many good cat names on the list!
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Thu Mar-25-10 02:33 AM
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7. Goddamnit. Some of the names on this list are names I have liked for my potential child |
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since I was this high.
Sad that should I choose any of these names, I will do so with the knowledge that I picked an "elite" name. Le sigh.
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Thu Mar-25-10 02:34 AM
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8. ACK. I just realized the author of that article is the dreaded Pamela Redmond Satran. |
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Edited on Thu Mar-25-10 02:42 AM by BlueIris
Having read three of her books, I can say that she is not one to poke fun at the elite, of which she is a painfully obvious wannabe.
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Thu Mar-25-10 09:20 AM
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12. Same here! I feel like I have to keep this list to make sure I don't pick one. My best |
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friend learned the hard way when she named her son Owen. He's the 3rd or 4th Owen in his class and she's so annoyed. She really wanted something unusual because her first and middle names were two of the most common names in the 70s.
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Fri Mar-26-10 09:13 AM
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49. Oh, damn. Is Owen popular now? |
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Edited on Fri Mar-26-10 09:13 AM by BlueIris
Last I checked it was in the top 200 or so, but not in the top 50.
I have a first/middle name combo that was super popular in the decade I was born, so originality is a big issue for me, too (though I'm hoping to avoid the temptation to go ultra-unique...which I think I'm going to fail miserably at.)
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Fri Mar-26-10 11:09 AM
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50. It's getting super popular. She's really bummed because both she and her |
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husband have very common names and worked really hard to come up with a name that was unusual but not insane or difficult to spell/pronounce. They thought Owen was perfect until they got him into daycare and realized there were several other Owens.
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Fri Mar-26-10 12:48 PM
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51. Material Girl would have been Owen had she been a boy. |
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Owen is my husband's middle name and was my MIL's maiden name. We'd decided that if we had a boy he was gonna be Owen Davis (my maiden name and now middle name) Sand_____. I guess we dodged a bullet (even if it was 13 years ago) since it turned out we had a little girl...
We might have accidently been trendy!!!
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Thu Mar-25-10 05:41 AM
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Thu Mar-25-10 09:45 AM
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13. If I had children, I would name them a common "family name" |
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I have found a lot of names that I like doing genealogy, and it would give me a chance to honor family history.
Faves: Jesse, Shad(rack), Israel, Daniel, Christopher, Henry for males and Sarah, Elizabeth, Mary, Catherine, Virginia, Jane for females
Some are very common, yes, but they are family names.
The two names that that I would NOT name a child but that I have found in my family tree: Zenithen (male) and Waudessa (female).
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Thu Mar-25-10 11:13 AM
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17. You have to be careful about using family names in my family. |
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My grandfather had siblings named Elfton and Dusendine to signify that they were the eleventh and twelfth children. I guess they were running short on names.
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Thu Mar-25-10 11:17 AM
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18. Wow...those are pretty bad names! n/t |
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Thu Mar-25-10 11:18 AM
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19. I have no family names that are halfway decent to call a child. |
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Thu Mar-25-10 11:50 AM
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20. "Waudessa" might be shortened to "Dessa", which is nice |
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And I guess Zenithen would be called "Zen"?
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Fri Mar-26-10 08:53 AM
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47. From the records I have,... |
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Waudessa was shortened to Dessie, and Zenithen to Zenie. They were not siblings, but the two shared a surname and it was an unusual and "funny" sounding last name to American English speakers (it is a German name).
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Thu Mar-25-10 09:52 AM
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14. Some of those are a bit too much, but I actually like many of them. |
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If I have a boy next go round, his name will be James Hudson. :) My baby girl's name is Bella Rose. I hate that Bella is all popular now due to Twilight. I wanted my girl to be the only Bella. Many people have dogs named Bella I am also finding out. But I still love the name Bella Rose. And she is a beautiful rose! :)
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Thu Mar-25-10 11:05 AM
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15. The best post from that link- |
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"What is up with the craze of adding "-den" or "-yden" onto a sound and calling it a name? Nothing screams "my parents are rednecks" like the names Ayden, Brayden, Cayden, Jayden, Drayden, etc... "
:rofl:
My friends named one of their sons Chase...that's going to be a bitch when he's in grade school
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Thu Mar-25-10 11:07 AM
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It is ok. Names change through time. There were some funky names back in the day, and there are some funky names today.
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Thu Mar-25-10 01:29 PM
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33. Every Chase I have ever known was big in sports as a kid... |
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Edited on Thu Mar-25-10 01:29 PM by carlyhippy
but all the Chases I knew were pretty good guys
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Thu Mar-25-10 12:02 PM
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22. I like alot of those names... |
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Thu Mar-25-10 12:10 PM
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23. I THINK this is Robin Williams. |
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Thu Mar-25-10 12:50 PM
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Aaaaaaaugh. And Maisie? These poor children. Phineas, Henry...please.
My daughter's name is Jossalyn, and I love it. The end. :)
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Thu Mar-25-10 12:56 PM
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28. Imogen? Sounds like a stomach remedy. nt |
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Thu Mar-25-10 01:19 PM
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29. Those are old people names, no offense |
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Thu Mar-25-10 01:28 PM
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32. Anybody read Freakonomics? Great piece in that book that's apropos here... |
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showing that the names that the elite choose for their kids wind up being the names of the middle class and, finally, the poorest people in another generation or so. Really interesting stuff.
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Thu Mar-25-10 01:32 PM
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34. I have that book...haha my kids names' were in the high end name list |
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Thu Mar-25-10 02:13 PM
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35. So glad to see pretty, traditional names for girls on that list. |
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Edited on Thu Mar-25-10 02:20 PM by Dulcinea
Down here in the Southland, people name their daughters those awful genderless Southern-belle-yuppie names: Parker, Sloan, Lane, Shelby, and the barf-inducing Madison. My neighbor named her daughter Quinlan. Ugh.
Those are names for Old English sheepdogs, not girls! :puke:
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Thu Mar-25-10 02:14 PM
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36. I don't think Madison is a southern name. |
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Edited on Thu Mar-25-10 02:15 PM by Shell Beau
It had a lot of popularity in the 90's all over. And Parker and Lane sound more like family names.
I love how southerners use double names.
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Thu Mar-25-10 02:24 PM
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37. I know 2 Parkers & 2 Lanes. |
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I always ask, "Is that a family name?" because it's rude to say, "That's really hideous."
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Thu Mar-25-10 02:27 PM
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39. I like them. But to each their own. |
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Thu Mar-25-10 02:27 PM
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38. Madison actually was unknown as a girl's name until the 1984 movie Splash. |
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It's true -- the name comes from a mermaid in a bad 80s movie.
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40. Aw come on now!! Don't diss my Splash!!! |
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41. What eva! I do what I want! |
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43. Just a Cartman impression. I mean, let's face it, if Cartman was on a political forum... |
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44. Haha!! So true, so true! |
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46. Sawyer! Bwahahahahahahahahaha! |
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