Lady Winter Rose Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 Ormond, where are you? I'm awaiting your next collumn about baby names, especially about new US top 1000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormond Posted May 17, 2015 Author Share Posted May 17, 2015 I am busy working on the data to create that column. In the meanwhile here are links to the last two: http://www.omaha.com/living/cleveland-evans-marina-a-global-name-thanks-to-martyrs/article_0274c8fd-4156-5369-a7f6-98a8fe445d60.html http://www.omaha.com/living/cleveland-evans-charlotte-royal-for-centuries/article_46c1603f-644f-5f22-8db9-cca1fa793620.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baitac Posted May 22, 2015 Share Posted May 22, 2015 Thank you for the columns Ormond. I didn't realize that Seamus was James. Being that I'm the mother of a James you would have "thunk" I knew! Also, is it me or is Charlotte a very "Southern" name? I wonder how we got the word charlatan from Charlat? Just musings. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elder Sister Posted May 22, 2015 Share Posted May 22, 2015 I love the name Charlotte...so, so, pretty. And Baitac, I think of it as Southern as well...probably because of "Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte"...one of my fave Bette Davis movies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormond Posted May 22, 2015 Author Share Posted May 22, 2015 I would agree that Charlotte has a "Southern" stereotype for many older Americans, perhaps because of that film. However, that's probably not going to last. The SSA site gives the top names by state (of course counting each separate spelling as a separate name, which actually makes Charlotte seem even more popular than it really is.) Anyway, in 2014 the five states that had Charlotte among their top five names were Idaho, Maine, Minnesota, New Hampshire, and Utah. So it's hardly a "Southern" name where babies are concerned. :) http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/state/top5_2014.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormond Posted May 25, 2015 Author Share Posted May 25, 2015 I just realized I also forgot to post the link to this column. My apologies, especially to all those named Sarah or who have daughters named that. :) http://www.omaha.com/living/cleveland-evans-all-about-sarah/article_310b57e1-e842-5621-a05f-ad87182fce47.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormond Posted May 26, 2015 Author Share Posted May 26, 2015 And here's the link to today's column: http://www.omaha.com/living/cleveland-evans-jackson-sophia-still-top-baby-names-list/article_628f8173-ffd9-570b-97dd-620e7c025607.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Winter Rose Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 Ormond, do you think Edmund, Cecily and Beatrice will climb next year? I thought Beatrice is going to climb, but it actually fall a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormond Posted June 15, 2015 Author Share Posted June 15, 2015 Here's the link to last Tuesday's column: http://www.omaha.com/living/cleveland-evans-with-noble-and-royal-roots-adelaide-is-seeing/article_d660a80a-35ed-5cbe-ab37-58f31cc9b547.html To LWR: I have no idea if those names will climb. There was a discussion recently on the babynames.com bulletin board of names that posters "liked the look of but disliked the sound of" and Cecily was one of the names that many posters agreed fit that category. Beatrice may rise whenever Princess Beatrice of the UK gets engaged and so has a flurry of international publicity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Winter Rose Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 Here's the link to last Tuesday's column: http://www.omaha.com/living/cleveland-evans-with-noble-and-royal-roots-adelaide-is-seeing/article_d660a80a-35ed-5cbe-ab37-58f31cc9b547.html To LWR: I have no idea if those names will climb. There was a discussion recently on the babynames.com bulletin board of names that posters "liked the look of but disliked the sound of" and Cecily was one of the names that many posters agreed fit that category. Beatrice may rise whenever Princess Beatrice of the UK gets engaged and so has a flurry of international publicity. I thought Cecily is popular in England, is that right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormond Posted June 20, 2015 Author Share Posted June 20, 2015 I thought Cecily is popular in England, is that right? It was in the past, but it's not even among the top 500 names for babies being born in England right now: http://www.behindthename.com/top/lists/england-wales/2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormond Posted June 23, 2015 Author Share Posted June 23, 2015 Here's the link to today's column: http://www.omaha.com/living/cleveland-evans-all-about-horace/article_3d6b8f69-df24-5973-8c82-43c0d69d63c2.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yagathai Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 Always a good read, Ormond. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xray the Enforcer Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 Agreed. I really enjoyed this week's column. I think I might have to name my next cat Horace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gillio Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 this is my favourite Horace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baitac Posted June 27, 2015 Share Posted June 27, 2015 And here's the link to today's column: http://www.omaha.com/living/cleveland-evans-jackson-sophia-still-top-baby-names-list/article_628f8173-ffd9-570b-97dd-620e7c025607.html Hah! It goes to show you the power of Telenovelas and such. We Hispanics are pretty much into the what's cool now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormond Posted July 7, 2015 Author Share Posted July 7, 2015 Here is the link to today's column: http://www.omaha.com/living/cleveland-evans-the-name-richard-has-a-long-history/article_c25b4df5-df3d-5ec7-8eed-ce8f7344c77c.html?mode=story Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baitac Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 Ricky Ricardo = Richard Richard. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stalker Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 Here is the link to today's column: http://www.omaha.com/living/cleveland-evans-the-name-richard-has-a-long-history/article_c25b4df5-df3d-5ec7-8eed-ce8f7344c77c.html?mode=story I'm fairly sure Richard I was born in 1157, not 1197. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lany Freelove Cassandra Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 i've a name history question: I've been doing the ancestry thing and both families go back to colonial New England. Since I did the DNA thing recently, I've been going back and adding the siblings of my ancestors as well and I have been coming across all the typical colonial New England names, until yesterday. I came across "Freelove" George (born 1735). I was quite disbelieving really, until I saw the marriage records. It sounds so much like a 1960's hippy name, not a Temperance or Prudence type New England name. In fact, it sounds quite the opposite of what I think as naming conventions of the time. Do we (I, really) just have a skewed view of colonial New England? or did things change with the 18th century? Just seems to me there is nothing Puritanical about Freelove (it almost makes me think she was the child of an affair, but she is one of the youngest of the George children and carries the same patrimony as the rest of her siblings) It is just a weird thing and I was curious about it. eta: trying to look up some info myself, but so far not having great success: This one mentions it, but is rather vague (but does have what I was getting at with the Virtue names): Names as a VirtueSome of the most fascinating names come from early New England where parents sometimes named their children after virtues they hoped they would possess: Patience, Charity, Prudence, Thankful. Some names appear quite strange to modern ears. In view of 20th century meanings, "Freelove" does not seem to be an appropriate name for a daughter! Might be answering my own question here, but I found this on a forum, just a person stating their opinion though:My favorite is Freelove which I assume meant the Freelove of God in colonial New England rather than the meaning that came into use in the 1960'sRead more: http://www.city-data.com/forum/genealogy/2307585-your-ancestors-most-common-given-names-4.html#ixzz3fnhlZUvA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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