Celebrity Names Blog

Name Challenge: Can You Match Celebrity Daughter to Celebrity Parent?

Name Challenge: Can You Match Celebrity Daughter to Celebrity Parent?

How well do you know your celebrity baby names?  Are you an expert or just a casual name observer?  Today Name Candy will test your name knowledge of celebrity daughters.  

The challenge: can you match the celebrity parent with the celebrity daughter?  

PARENTS

  1. Maggie Gyllenhaal
  2. Halle Berry
  3. Reese Witherspoon
  4. Sylvester Stallone
  5. Arnold Schwarzenegger
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New Baby Alert: London born to Neal McDonough

New Baby Alert:  London born to Neal McDonough

Neal McDonough and his wife Ruve welcomed their daughter this week. London Jane joins siblings Morgan Patrick and Catherine Maggie, according to PEOPLE.

London is something of a departure, since

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New Baby Alert: Emily Mortimer welcomes baby May

New Baby Alert: Emily Mortimer welcomes baby May

Emily Mortimer and her husband Alessandro Nivola welcomed a daughter recently: May. She joins older brother, Samuel John.

Surprisingly, the Celebrity Baby Names database contains almost no other entries for month-named children. Why should this surprise?  Some of these names are due for a revival

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New Baby Alert: Will Ferrell Names New Baby Axel

New Baby Alert: Will Ferrell Names New Baby Axel

Funnyman Will Ferrell and wife Viveca Paulin welcomed a third son on Saturday, January 23, according to PEOPLE.  The new baby is named Axel and joins older brothers Magnus, 5, and Mattias, 3. While the new baby's name baby breaks from the family theme of baby names starting with "m" and ending

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New Baby Alert: Westlife Singer Shane Filan Welcomes A Baby Boy Named Shane Peter

New Baby Alert: Westlife Singer Shane Filan Welcomes A Baby Boy Named Shane Peter

Westlife singer Shane Filan and wife Gillian welcomed a baby boy Friday January 22.  Celebrity Baby Blog reports that Shane Peter joins older brother Patrick Michael (16 months) and Nicole Rose (4 1/2).  Hmm, might they be Irish?  Fans of Westlife already know this, but for the uninitiated, yes, this is an Irish pop band, and yes, the Filan family is Irish -- Shane and Gillian were high school sweethearts in a town in northwest Ireland.  

Pointing out the obvious, the newest addition to the family 

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New Baby Alert: Bo Bice Welcomes Baby Boy Named Ean Jacob

New Baby Alert: Bo Bice Welcomes Baby Boy Named Ean Jacob

American Idol runner-up Bo Bice and wife Caroline welcomed a baby boy on Friday, January 22. The new baby's name is Ean Jacob. Baby Ean joins older brothers Aidan Michael, 4, and Caleb James, 17 months. The baby name Ean is the Manx variant on the name Ian, which itself is the Scottish form of the name John. The name Ean is a

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Golden Globe & Name Candy Name Award Winners

Earlier this week the Golden Globe Awards were bestowed, as the Hollywood Foreign Press Association declared who their favorite performances of the year.  Here at Name Candy, we decided to give our own award in the Best Actor and Best Actress categories -- the appropriately titled, Name Candy Name Award.  We put aside any consideration of the performances -- leave that to the Hollywood Foreign Press -- and looked just at the names.  

Golden Globe & Name Candy Name Award Winners

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New Baby Alert: Greg Vaughan and Touriya Haoud welcome Cavan Thomas

New Baby Alert: Greg Vaughan and Touriya Haoud welcome Cavan Thomas

General Hospital's Greg Vaughan and wife Touriya Haoud welcomed Cavan Thomas this week, Vaughan reported on Twitter. Cavan joins big brother, Jathan James.

Jathan is a name that makes people crazy. (A quick trawl of The Internets reveals this most common reaction: "Sounds like Jason with a lisp!") We suspect that Cavan will also annoy traditional namers, who dislike kreative spellings of perfectly acceptable names like Kevin.

But are these names actually classically correct?

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New Baby Alert: Fatboy Slim and Zoe Ball Welcome Daughter Nelly May Lois

Fatboy Slim and wife Zoe Ball welcomed daughter Nelly May Lois into the world on January 14, 2010.  Celebrity Baby Blog reports that Nelly May Lois joins older brother Woody, 8.  This is a family full of interesting names.  While Fatboy Slim is this DJ's performance name, his given name is Norman Cook.  The affect is just a little bit different! What can we tell you about this family of names?

Norman

  • from the two elements in Frankish meaning north and man -- so "northman, Norseman."
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Celebrity Baby Names Round Up: January 9-16, 2010

Babies, babies and more babies!  For celebrity baby name followers, this has been a huge week.  The babies and the names just kept on coming.  In case you couldn't keep up with all the births and naming announcements, here's a recap of the biggest celebrity name stories for January 9-16, 2010.

Charlie Rhodes Afifi, son to Sarah Chalke and Jamie Afifi

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