We admit it.  We loved the movie Hot Tub Time Machine. Not just because it was laugh-out-loud funny, but because so many of the details were so dead-on in terms of how we remembered teenage party films of the 1980s. Do you think these Hot Tub Time Machine character names were well-chosen? (read on!)

Earlier in the week, we heard that Academy Award-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody is pregnant with her first child.  She and her new husband Dan Maurio haven't dropped any hints about baby names yet  (You can follow @DiabloCody on Twitter for more).  But names are obviously important to Cody, whose real name is actually

Date Night hit theaters yesterday, staring Steve Carell and Tina Fey.  The tag line reads:  "One ordinary couple.  One extraordinary mistake."  The basic premise: a married couple with two kids looks to shake up their weekly date night with a night out on the town in Manhattan.  The mistake happens when unable to get seats at a trendy restaurant, this couple, Phil and Claire Foster, pretends to be a no-show duo -- the Tripplehorns.  Low and behold, the Tripplehorns are crooks with really bad guys chasing them.  Now those bad guys think the Fosters are the Tripplehorns and from this mistaken identity chaos and comedy ensue.

Here's our name inquiry:  Date Night's premise depends on Phil and Claire Foster being ordinary.  In other words, like us -- we've got to see ourselves in them as they try to handle kids, jobs and each other, and then as they deal with crooks, midnight chases and near-death experiences.  It's funny because they are not James Bond, but as awkward and resourceful as we might be if in their situation. 

So, the name question: Did the movie's creators choose well with Phil and Claire? Are they ordinary names?

Comedian and Comics Unleashed host Byron Allen and wife Jennifer Lucas welcomed a second daughter Wednesday April 7, according to a report in PEOPLE.  The new baby, named Olivia Rose joins big sister Chloe Ava.  The Allens are definitely not cutting edge in their naming choice.  In her 2010 Baby Name Trend Report, our own Name Lady recently revealed that Olivia is

Paula Patton and Robin Thicke have had their just-arrived son's name ready for months: Julian Fuego. We wrote about Julian (a name popular among celebrity musicians and comedians) at the time. But what do we think of Fuego, and where did it come from?

Not too long ago we wrote about sexy names and readers were quick to point out a glaring omission -- Brad/Bradley.  While the name certainly stands on its own, here's a question:  is the name Brad/Bradley super sexy or is it Mr. Pitt and Mr. Cooper who exude immense sex appeal?  Is it possible to separate out a sexy name from a sexy celeb -- or are our names inextricably linked to us?  Juliet says "What's in a name?  That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet."  She's talking about her lover Romeo having the unfortunate last name Montague.  As we all know, it turns out in this case there is a lot in a name, and there's no escaping his or hers.  And at the risk of offending R&J devotees, who knows, if his last name were not the forbidden Montague, but say, Russo, would Romeo have excited Juliet's imagination and heart quite so much?

Let's see what our readers had to say: 

We hate to admit it, but we haven't been keeping up with the NCAA brackets (too busy working on our baby name brackets in the upcoming baby name pool), but we saw this article in the Washington Post about the names of one Baylor player and his family and we could ignore the games no more. LaceDarius Lee was apparently named for his dad Lacey, although his mom

Has the Easter Bunny stopped by your house today?  How about Easter? Or Bunny? Seriously.  Easter and Bunny are both real names with histories in the United States, though ones we rarely hear today. The girls' name Easter derives from the Christian holiday name, which is ultimately derived from the Germanic spring goddess Eostre, according to Behind the Name.  Some people also think it is a variant of the name Esther. And believe it

American Idol 2010 brings us the names Casey, Crystal, Lee, Siobhan, plus others, but the true star of season 9 is Ellen.  This is Ellen DeGeneres' first season as, replacing Paula Abdul, she joins Randy Jackson, Kara DioGuardi and Simon Cowell at the judges' table.  A New York Times Sunday Arts profile of Ellen states: "(M)idway through her first season Ms. DeGeneres has all but hijacked the show, playing second fiddle to no one, not even the overbearing Mr. Cowell... She couldn't be friendlier or more congenial." (Hmm, could this have to do with a last name that includes the sound, if not the spelling, of the word generous?)

Ms. DeGeneres is holding her own as a judge.  But what about her name?  How does Ellen measure up to Randy, Kara and Simon?

Andrea Roth, who plays Dennis Leary's wife on the television series Rescue Me and her real-life fiance Todd Bierman welcomed their first child earlier this week.  The baby girl is named Ava Reese Biermann.  As name enthusiasts know, the name Ava is a super-hot name for girls