Baby Name Pondering

Photo Courtesy of Lindsay Wright Photography Here's another pretty name from the floral world that is rare as hen's teeth. So r...

I came across this pretty name when I was looking at all of the X names that were given to girls in the U.S in 2013. Because - you know - ...

Between the above recent birth notice, and this one for Fenris Leander from February, I'm starting to get the impression that Star ...

Jane Fonda as Barbarella in the movie of the same name has become an iconic image. The character is a young woman who travels among vario...

Performers often adopt a stage name – something that is memorable and conveys a particular image, their public persona. This seems to be pa...

My next Halloween post has gone up on Nameberry instead today! It's a list of names inspired by some pretty nasty (and some not-so...

In 1987 the name Shadow and it's alternative spelling Shadoe made a sudden impact on the SSA charts in the U.S. Prior to then, the sp...

'Queen Zenobia's Last Look Upon Palmyra', painting by Herbert Gustave Schmalz I've seen this name mentioned lately and f...

While having a squiz at the birth announcements in the Melbourne Herald Sun yesterday, two names struck me as particularly inspiring - Denv...

Caspian is a name that I have loved ever since reading "Prince Caspian" by C.S. Lewis when I was young. At the time, I thought tha...