
Baby Name Wizard Andre Agassi Tells Us His Life Story & We Tell You About His Name
Andre Agassi's name is back in the headlines. This time not for a championship serve, but for a hit book entitled Open: An Autobiography. Rarely referenced as Andre -- always Andre Agassi -- this name has been a household one for decades. At 39, the tennis legend's decided to share more about the man behind the name....
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Posted:2009-11-21 06:28:14 GMT

Baby Name Wizard New Moon: The Vampire Names of Twilight
We know some of you have already caught an early screening of the latest movie release in the Twilight series. The Twilight Saga: New Moon, which opened today, is the second in the enormously popular vampire romance series by Stephenie Meyer. As Laura Wattenberg points out in this week’s Baby Name Wizard Blog, Meyer’s vampire names defineread more
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Posted:2009-11-20 14:54:46 GMT

Baby Name Wizard New Baby Alert: Cute Fuzzy Animals Edition
Giant panda Bai Yun, best known as the mother in the first successful panda birth in the United States, and her partner, giant panda Gao Gao, have a name for their son born in August: Yun Zi. Yun Zi joins siblings Hua Mei, Mei Sheng, Su Lin and Zhen Zhen, all born at the San Diego Zoo....
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Posted:2009-11-19 16:16:50 GMT

Baby Name Wizard Meet Baby "Stop it" and Baby "Horse Mackerels"
Suri Cruise can't catch a break. First it was her controversial high heels that made the media rounds. Now, a London firm is casting aspersions on her name to drum up business. In a widely-circulated (and widely-ridiculed) news release, the firm Today Translations used Suri's name to demonstrate their new service: For ...$1,678, their team of translator-sleuths will track down a name's meaning in 100 languages....Read More
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Posted:2009-11-18 16:35:11 GMT

Baby Name Wizard Vampire Chic: The Names of Twilight
Nothing has greater potential to move baby name style than a teen/tween craze. Just think, thanks to Harry Potter a whole generation on the cusp of procreation now sees Hermione as brainy and Luna as looney. Yet the Hogwarts crew has been limited in its baby name impact, because author J.K....
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Posted:2009-11-18 14:02:26 GMT

Baby Name Wizard Team Edward vs. Team Jacob
Friday New Moon, the second installment in the Twilight trilogy, hits movie theaters. Twilightfans will no doubt be out in force that night, and as the anticipation grows, battle lines are already being drawn. Are you on Team Edward or Team Jacob? Apparently on this one there is no in-between! PEOPLE gives the run down of where some celebs fall and how the competition is playing out on water bottles!...
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Posted:2009-11-17 15:45:34 GMT

Baby Name Wizard My Favorite Baby Names Don't Work Together
Q:Dear Name Lady: I have always loved the names Vesper (for a girl) and Kaspar (for a boy) ... but people laugh when I say them together, and I can see why. They are rare names and they have similar structures. I came upon them at different times but adore them both equally!...
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Posted:2009-11-17 13:50:19 GMT

Baby Name Wizard Adriana Lima and Marko Jarić Welcome a Baby Girl Named Valentina
It's been a (re)productive month for the Victoria's Secret Angels. Just a few weeks ago we reported on on the birth of Karolina Kurkova's baby boy, named Tobin Jack and today we learned that fellow Angel Adriana Lima gave birth to a baby girl on Sunday. Adriana and her husband, Marko Jarić, a professional basketball player withread more
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Posted:2009-11-17 01:02:16 GMT

Baby Name Wizard Flight of the Conchords' Bret McKenzie Announces Baby Girl's Name
Bret McKenzie, one half of the New Zealand band/comedy duo The Flight of the Conchords has revealed the name of his baby girl, born in August. Bret's baby girl, with wife Hannah, is named Vita, from the Latin, meaning "life." Back in September, we predicted that the name Vita had all the makings of a hit, afterread more
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Posted:2009-11-16 13:57:53 GMT

Baby Name Wizard Liberty Grace -- Joey Lawrence Announces Name of His Daughter Before She's Born
Liberty Grace is on her way, due to arrive in a of couple months, Joey Lawrence and Chandie Yawn-Nelson told PEOPLE. Whoa baby -- take a moment to enjoy that the actor from Blossom so linked with this phrase now has daughter number two on the way. Liberty Grace will join older sister Charleston (3 1/2)....
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Posted:2009-11-14 06:00:41 GMT

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/05/baby-names-quantify-the-faddishness-of-fads/ "For infinite fun playing with baby names, head to Baby Name Wizard, the data-heavy baby name site developed by Laura Wattenberg. Try the NameVoyager...










