Zooey Deschanel named her second child Charlie Wolf. His big sister is named Elsie Otter. I would assume the third kid will be Gary Groundhog. [Dlisted]
Stephen Colbert got The Daily Show gang back together. [Jezebel]
I’ve been wearing platform sandals this whole time! [LaineyGossip]
I wish I had the stones to walk around in caftans. [Go Fug Yourself]
Joe Scarborough clapped back at some of Trump’s people. [Pajiba]
Kim Zolciak’s son is healing. [Starcasm]
Alexandra Daddario’s dress was pretty low-cut. [Popoholic]
Fast facts about Charlie Hunnam. [Wonderwall]
Alessandra Ambrosio is always on vacation. [Celebslam]
Scheana Marie lied about her marriage on Vanderpump Rules. [Reality Tea]
This is amazing public art. [OMG Blog]
Together the names sound kinda cute, and they are middle names so who cares. Good thing she she didn’t go all crazy hollywood.
I actually like this – if you’re going to do a weird name, make it the middle name.
My one caveat would be that I dislike Charlie as a given name. While I love Charlie as a nickname, I do think people should have the option of going by Charles or another nickname. Also, Charles Wolf sounds even cooler than Charlie Wolf.
@LA Elle My grandmother named my mother Abby, not Abigail. Many people call her Abigail anyway, assuming that’s her real name. So in this instance, the formal name became the nickname. I also had a friend named Eddie, just Eddie. He’s now a judge, so he turned out all right, despite his nickname as first name.
My boss’s formal name is Patti (not Patricia and not with a y).
My pet peeve also.
Eh, Elsie and Charlie are cute names and no one really cares about middle names in real life.
But tell me, fellow CB-ers – what would you name a kid, if you could give one a name?
I just suggested Yohan to my cousin for her son, since it’s a name I will never use for any kid of mine (I love it but I don’t want to be having any kids and it’s the name of an ex from 10 years ago who I’m still in touch with professionally. .. so no go).
I’ve always wanted to name my (future) daughter Illa. I like Yohan!
I like Yohan, but I can see it being spelled wrong constantly. My daughter is named Erin and you wouldn’t believe the number of people who have said “Do you spell than A-a-r-o-n?” She’s female, doofuses, not male!
Yohan isn’t likely to be spelt wrong where I am – people are used to complicated names here and my ex never got his name misspelt either.
I can’t believe people confuse Erin and Aaron though. I thought Erin was a fairly well known girls’ name!
@Teacakes: For over 20 years I told myself that one day I would have a daughter, that she would have red hair (like me), and that I would name her Elora Danen (It’s the name of the red-haired baby princess from the 80s movie Willow). So, when I found out I was pregnant with my 1st daughter I was SO excited and told my husband, “Wait, I have the PERFECT name!!” He immediately shut me down. No amount of begging and cajoling could convince him (couldn’t convince him for daughter #2 either–who actually does have red curly hair & blue eyes). It’s a cute family story now, but I will secretly admit I’m still a bit bitter. I f’ing love that name…
@Scarlet Vixen – you have my sympathies! My mother actually saved me from a rather awful name my dad’s side of the family wanted me to have, I can’t imagine how bitter I’D be if she hadn’t got to.
Navarre for a boy and Gwenhuvera for a girl.
Ariane for a girl. But I’m expecting a boy, and he will be my only kid, so no Ariane for me.
Ariane is such a pretty name!
When i was pregnant way back in the 90’s I had a multitude of girl names even though i didnt know what sex the baby was. Anyway, Ariane was one of the top 3 names in my list, sadly she became a Rebecca after being told by a multitude of people that they would never know how to spell Ariane.
That’s why I never talk about my name choices irl 🙂
I’m french though, so no problem with the spelling. More with the rocket, but I don’t care, rockets are beautiful things! Anyway, no girl for me, but I think I find a good compromise with the name of my yet-unborn son 🙂 I’m quite sure people won’t like it but they will deal and get used to it 🙂
I was going to name my daughter Mia (pronounced Maya – like Angelou). The weird spelling is because it’s my name with some consonants taken out. Ended up with a boy, so no Mia.
I have three daughters and they all have names that begin with the letter ‘S’, I wanted so badly for one of them to be named Scarlett, but my husband shut that $hit down right from the get go, I was devastated.
If I carried a human being for 9 months then you bet your behind that I am the one who will be naming it. There would be no “shutting down”.
Alternatively, we would compromise. I name the first kid, you the second.
3 daughters and you didn’t get to name one?? No ma’am!
Damn I’m sorry Mellie. Scarlett is a lovely name, I’d be mad as hell if I couldn’t even get a compromise to make it a middle name or something.
Also, my first naming options for the daughters I will never have started with an S too – Sofia, Susanna and Sasha. It’s a really pretty letter to start names with.
I always think that is funny since Sasha is a name for boys 🙂
We ended up with Sydney, Savanna and Sally and I love all the names very much and if I didn’t like them a little bit I could have shut those down too, but I still think about a little girl named Scarlett and my baby is 18 yo! haha. Oh well, someone else can have it!
@thaliasghost – It’s very much a girl’s name too, see Sasha Pivovarova or President Obama’s younger daughter. But I liked its unisex nature, love it in fact.
@mellie – I see you had different S names from mine but they’re a lovely set even if Scarlett isn’t among them.
GARY GROUNDHOG.
THANK YOU.
THANK YOU.
First laugh of the day.
Stop and think – would I like to be called that before imposing the name on your kid,
Hello, dear. Our daughter has an old fashioned name that has yet to make a comeback. She always liked her name. In school she was surrounded by Madisons, Dakotas, Ashlyns. Taylors. Those were the popular names. There were so many of them, but I read somewhere that kids often enjoy having a popular name.
Hello to you. Mine name is just uncommon enough without being out of the ordinary and I am very happy with it, much prefer it to my sister’s! I think kids would prefer a popular name to one that is outlandish and could get them bullied at school.
I have a rare name. I hated it when I was a kid but now I am super happy with it. You don’t stay kid for very long 🙂
I have the most common 1980s name.
I hated it. Still don’t care for it. There were always at least three of us, sometimes exact, sometimes in variations, in every class ever. I felt like my parents were boring and unoriginal and thought about legally changing it when I was an angsty teen.
@Babs – exactly, one doesn’t remain a kid forever. Plus a lot of unusual names are ethnic ones – and I have very strong words to say about the idea that people should not give their kids names that reflect their culture because of hypothetical school bullies.
I have a super generic first name (for where I am) that basically conceals my religious background. I was fine with it as a kid because I wasn’t and still am not religious at all, but it’s still part of my family and my culture and now, as an adult, I wish my name didn’t let me ‘pass’, so to speak.
At least they are middle names, not first names. And the first names she chose are fine. I don’t know why parents have suddenly forgotten that you can name a child one thing and called him a nickname if you want something cutesy or different.
God, I love caftans. I do wear them a lot in the summer (I’m a teacher), but I’m going to try actually going out in public in one this summer. The short ones are easy to pull off as a loose dress, but the longer ones are so obviously a caftan…
I also wear a turban and drink G&Ts while becaftaned. It’s the only way to go.
Boop boop boop BECAFTANED.
On the link to the platform sandals – Gwyneth looks so much nicer with short hair!
I would have named my daughter Lara, but our surname is Lar so it would have been Lara Lar. No bueno 🙁 Fortunately we got a boy.
🙂
Kinda like Julia Gulia
What baby names are going to be more popular – Wolf, Jake, Rachel and Keith, or Kellyanne, Sean and Bill?
Reince!!!
No kids here but in my imagination a girl would have been Nina or Steffi ( after one of the greatest tennis players of all time) . I’m surprised Trump didn’t insist on Ivanka being called Donalda. So that’s what I’m calling her now.
I wanted to name our daughter Amalthea after the heroine of The Last Unicorn. My husband and MIL were against it, but I secretly call her it when we’re alone. She’s 4 weeks old, so I don’t think it confuses her yet.
Not planning for kids but for a girl, maybe Maya Alexandria. M and A are the first letters of our first names.
My daughter’s name is Kivrin and my son’s name is Calloway. We narrowed things down to a list of three for each sex (didn’t find out ahead of time), all of which we had to at least LIKE even if only one of us was all heart-eyes…
In the end, both first names were my pick and my husband chose the middle names. I cared more about the naming than he did, though, and I did the work so I feel justified. 😄