Our Saturday newspaper had an article about baby names this week.
It postulated that our goals for naming have changed since our parents', and especially, our grandparents' time.
"It used to be that a very large percentage of parents wanted a good, solid, ordinary name for their child," says Laura Wattenberg, a noted name researcher, "but today, parents treat ordinary as a dirty word."
John, Susan, Catherine, and Robert used to be the names of choice; now we have Apple (Gwyneth Paltrow's child), Knox (Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's child), and Sunday (new daughter of Nicole Kidman).
Cate Blanchet just named her new son Ignatius, which could fit in either list, depending on your time frame!
Interesting choices, but still better than Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii!
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