Name That List, #53
What is this a list of? The answer is below in extended.
Answer:
(Note: Many thanks to Jenny Beatty who's, again, the author of today's list! )
Unusual names given to babies born in 2018. “Our data comes from more than 700,000 parents who shared their baby's name with us in 2018. Each name was given to at least three children this year.”
Source: babycenter.com
Wondering if those are boy names or girl names? Well, here ya go:
Arbor (f)
Bran (m)
Cayenne (f)
Cookie (f)
Copper (m)
Coyote (m)
Fable (f)
Hardy (m)
Hawthorne (m)
Kahlo (m)
Oak (m)
Napoleon (m)
Peaches (f)
Red (m)
Rocket (m)
Rosetta (f)
Sequoia (f)
Tamari (f)
Toto (f)
Trigger (m)
Venice (f)
Yanni (m)
Zenith (f)
Zeppelin (f)
(2nd Note from Alex: This list reminds me of a website that Paul recently shared with me -- NameOfTheYear.com. Worth a look if you haven't seen it already.)
- Arbor
- Bran
- Cayenne
- Cookie
- Copper
- Coyote
- Fable
- Hardy
- Hawthorne
- Kahlo
- Oak
- Napoleon
- Peaches
- Red
- Rocket
- Rosetta
- Sequoia
- Tamari
- Toto
- Trigger
- Venice
- Yanni
- Zenith
- Zeppelin
Answer:
(Note: Many thanks to Jenny Beatty who's, again, the author of today's list! )
Unusual names given to babies born in 2018. “Our data comes from more than 700,000 parents who shared their baby's name with us in 2018. Each name was given to at least three children this year.”
Source: babycenter.com
Wondering if those are boy names or girl names? Well, here ya go:
Arbor (f)
Bran (m)
Cayenne (f)
Cookie (f)
Copper (m)
Coyote (m)
Fable (f)
Hardy (m)
Hawthorne (m)
Kahlo (m)
Oak (m)
Napoleon (m)
Peaches (f)
Red (m)
Rocket (m)
Rosetta (f)
Sequoia (f)
Tamari (f)
Toto (f)
Trigger (m)
Venice (f)
Yanni (m)
Zenith (f)
Zeppelin (f)
(2nd Note from Alex: This list reminds me of a website that Paul recently shared with me -- NameOfTheYear.com. Worth a look if you haven't seen it already.)
Comments
I could understand naming someone Zepplin if the family name were Burns, or Rocket if the surname were Redglare. Rosetta must have started in the Stone family. There was a girl in my high school named Twinkle Starr.
Posted by Virtual on 12/16/18 at 09:29 AM
Some of these are not so unusual. Cookie used to be a fairly common nickname (e.g. Dagwood and Blondie's daughter). Peaches as in Peaches and Herb (Peaches was the nickname of the original Peaches -- there have been seven of them). Red is a common nickname. Rosetta as in Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Napoleon as in Napoleon Solo. Hardy Hendren is a famous surgeon in Boston who was called "Hardly Human" because of his ability to perform extreme surgeries such as separating conjoined twins.
Posted by ges on 12/16/18 at 10:33 AM
I pity the poor girls who were named Zeppelin, especially if they become fat in the future.
Posted by Yudith on 12/16/18 at 01:23 PM
My guess before going to the answer page was names given to brandy. It is the Christmas season.
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Posted by agent j on 12/16/18 at 02:15 PM
I thought they were secret service codenames for politicians.
ges: and Bran is a normal Gaelic name, though I have no idea how common it is.
Sequoia, though, is a man's name, and was so before they named the trees after him.
ges: and Bran is a normal Gaelic name, though I have no idea how common it is.
Sequoia, though, is a man's name, and was so before they named the trees after him.
Posted by Richard Bos on 12/22/18 at 04:09 AM
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