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- Baby Names 2009: Celebrities The Biggest Influence - Huffington Post (blog)
- Kendra Wilkinson becomes a mom - CNN
- Woman attacked for unborn baby names child Miracle - Washington Examiner
- For Baby Names, Jayden Rises to the Top - New York Times
- Revealed! How Kourtney Kardashian Is Going to Lose the Baby Weight - Us Magazine
| Baby Names 2009: Celebrities The Biggest Influence - Huffington Post (blog) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 07:50 AM PST Celebrities and pop culture proved the strongest influence on the baby names of 2009. While the biggest baby name news of the year was Emma's rise to claim the number one spot for girls' names, the names moving fastest up the popularity ladder were influenced by stars, their babies, the characters they play, and even reality shows and news stories. The Top Ten Fastest Movers for girls were: Khloe - As in reality star Karshadian Marlee - And Me.... Marely Audrina - The nouveau name of another reality star, Partridge Marley - The original spelling of the name of both the dog and reggae star Bob. Danna Jaslene -- From America's Next Top Model Lilah Paisley Miley - Teen star Cyrus
For boys, the most dramatic movers were:
Jacoby -- Ellsbury, of baseball fame Kane Beckett Paxton Kale August Braylon Ryker Kingston - Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale's son. Kolton
Other trendy names getting a boost from their celebrity associations include, for girls:
Valentina - (Salma Hayek's daughter) Rihanna - The pop singer Kimora - Lee Simmons, mom of newborn Kenzo. Hayden - For girls, after Panettiere, star of Heroes Malia - Inspired by the older Obama daughter
For boys, other celebrity-inspired hotties include:
River - The name of Keri Russell's son. Milo - Liv Tyler's choice for her little boy. Jude - Actor Law. Kobe - Basketball star Bryant. Cruz - Spanish choice inspired by the youngest son of Victoria and David Beckham.
Even fictional characters have an influence. One name newly on the baby-namers' scope is Sloane for girls, thanks to the character on HBO's Entourage. For boys', Cohen entered the mix, via the surname of the popular character on The O.C., along with Silas, name of the older son on Weeds, and Dexter, Showtime's lovable mass murderer. And all the Twilight names, from Edward to Cullen to Bella to Esme, are newly in favor.
Sloane was new to the Top 1000, along with Gemma, Isla (as in red-headed star Fisher), Matilda (daughter of Michelle Williams and Heath Ledger); and for boys, Callum, extremely popular throughout Britain but a newcomer to the U.S.
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| Kendra Wilkinson becomes a mom - CNN Posted: 11 Dec 2009 08:06 AM PST It's a boy for Kendra Wilkinson and husband Hank Baskett. Their son, Hank Randall Baskett IV, was delivered via C-section at 12:37 a.m. on Friday in Indiana, where Baskett is a wide receiver for the Indianapolis Colts. The baby boy weighed in at 9 lbs., 5 oz. and measured 22 inches. Wilkinson, 24, who rose to fame as part of Hugh Hefner's trio of girlfriends on The Girls Next Door, announced the pregnancy weeks before she wed Baskett, 27, in a June 27 ceremony at the Playboy mansion in Los Angeles. Sharing news of her pregnancy with fans via various TwitPics, the Kendra star expressed her joy -- and choice of baby names -- upon discovering that she would be welcoming a son. "We've already decided to name our son Hank Baskett IV," she said. "Hank's dad and his grandfather were both named Hank, so it was very important to us to carry on the family tradition." Wilkinson's due date was Dec. 12. The birth was first reported by E! News. © 2009 People and Time Inc. All rights reserved. fivefilters.org featured article: Normalising the crime of the century by John Pilger |
| Woman attacked for unborn baby names child Miracle - Washington Examiner Posted: 08 Dec 2009 06:03 PM PST A 29-year-old homeless woman has given birth to a baby girl after she was stabbed by a woman who tried to remove the baby for herself, police said. The victim, Teka Adams, and the baby were expected to recover after an emergency Cesarean section. Adams has named her new daughter Miracle Sky. Police said 40-year-old Veronica Deramous befriended Adams at a District women's shelter and persuaded the pregnant woman to come to her Suitland apartment for baby clothes and other items. Police said Deramous bound Adams and tried to cut the unborn baby from her body. Deramous was charged with attempted first-degree murder and false imprisonment. - Scott McCabe
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| For Baby Names, Jayden Rises to the Top - New York Times Posted: 02 Dec 2009 03:02 PM PST Remember, City Room called it last year. Jayden has become the most popular name for baby boys, with 872 male newborns given that name in 2008, according to an announcement made by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene on Wednesday. It has surpassed perennial classics like Daniel, Michael, Matthew and David, which collectively round out the top five. The baby name cognoscenti note that Jayden's rise is remarkable since there has historically been less innovation with boys names. Unlike girls names — Lisa, Jennifer, Madison and Ashley have risen and fallen within decades — the top boys names tend to be timeless, with Biblical or kingly flavors. Nationwide, Jayden ranked only 11th last year, according to Social Security Administration data — respectable, but not a blockbuster. The difference? New York's demographic mix. For whatever reason, Jayden is popular with minority groups. It has been the most popular boy's name among blacks and Hispanics in the city. Hispanics, specifically, seemed to have embraced the name with fervor. They may make up some 25 percent of the city's population, but they account for more than 50 percent of the Jaydens, with 463. "When you think of it in terms of actual Spanish, it's actually unpronounceable," said Laura Wattenberg, a baby name expert. "Hai-dane, or something like that." Jayden also ranked 14th among Asian-American boys. But notably, it was a relatively dismal 60th among whites. Still, Ms. Wattenberg said, 60th is relatively high. Why has it become so popular? Is it because of the Britney Spears effect (she named her son Jayden James in 2006)? Ms. Wattenberg gives credit to Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith for naming their son Jaden in 1998: "For them, Jaden was a twist on Jada." Since then, she has watched the ascent of Jayden and all its variant spellings (Jaden, Jaiden, Jaydan, Jaidon, etc.). But she said Ms. Spears standardized the spelling. The name has a lot going for it. Notably, it ends in "n," which has become the most popular name ending in the two decades. "A third of all boys born in America will get a name ending in 'n,' which is historically bizarre," Ms. Wattenberg said. "It has taken over in a way that no ending has taken over before, for boys." Also, it belongs in the "rhymes with Aiden" family, which also includes Hayden and Caiden (and all their variant spellings). Forty names rhyming with Aiden ranked in the top 1,000 names for newborn American boys in 2008, Ms. Wattenberg said. Jayden has had a steady climb in New York City. It ranked second in 2007, and 10th the year before (though with all the variant spellings, we think Jayden was actually first in spirit). Incidentally, Sophia ranks No. 1 among girls in the city, followed by Isabella, Emily, Olivia and Sarah. But the preferences varied between different ethnic groups. White parents favored Olivia. Hispanics' top pick was Ashley, while Madison became the new favorite with black families. Sophia, the top pick for Asian girls in 2007, stayed on top in 2008. The rise and fall in the fashion of names has long fascinated City Room, especially since New York City's immigrant mix makes it different from the country at large. An analysis of baby names dating back to 1920 found that some names have fallen out of favor (like Giuseppe), while others have risen (like Fatoumata, a West African variant of Fatima). We've always wondered what would happen if we made the city's underlying data available to the public to work with. So we asked the health department for baby names and created comma-separated value files, which can be downloaded and opened in Microsoft Excel. The first one is all baby names dating back to 1920 [csv]. The second file is baby names broken down by ethnicity, but only back to 1990 [csv], when the health department started keeping standardized race data. City Room hopes that people can do interesting visualizations or programming with them, perhaps in the same spirit as the programmers who have analyzed the 9/11 Wikileaks pager messages. We, too, will be seeing what interesting things we can do with the baby name data. Here is a breakdown of the top baby names for 2008 in New York City * = tied fivefilters.org featured article: Normalising the crime of the century by John Pilger |
| Revealed! How Kourtney Kardashian Is Going to Lose the Baby Weight - Us Magazine Posted: 09 Dec 2009 11:56 AM PST How does Kourtney Kardashian plan to shed the 26 lbs. or so she's gained during her pregnancy? QuickTrim -- and her mom Kris Jenner is going to help her do it. (Both Kim and Khloe credit the dietary supplement with helping them slim down.) "I'm going to do it with Kourtney," Kris told Usmagazine.com Tuesday at the unveiling of the Official Michael Jackson Opus in Los Angeles. "Kourtney is going to do it for after the baby. We are very excited." Due any day, Kourtney, 30, and beau Scott Disick haven't yet settled on a baby name. (Kim just told Us that Kourtney has a list of 50 names, but she wants to wait until she meets the baby to settle on a name.) Can you guess whose baby bump this is? "No, we don't have a name," Bruce Jenner told Us. "I think they are hiding it from me. I'm thinking Kourtney must have a name, but she won't tell me because she's afraid it's going to get out. You've seen my show -- I'm always the last to know! But she is ready to go any day. It could happen any time." What are they doing to prepare? Said Bruce, "We're just on baby watch!" Get more Us! Follow us on Twitter, Friend us on Facebook, Subscribe to Us Weekly fivefilters.org featured article: Normalising the crime of the century by John Pilger |
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