Fruit, weather, cars inspire baby names.Byline: Susan Palmer The Register-Guard Actress Gwyneth Paltrow and her rocker husband Chris Martin This article is about the Coldplay musician. For other people named Chris Martin, see Chris Martin (disambiguation). Christopher Anthony John Martin (born March 2, 1977) is the lead singer, pianist and occasional rhythm guitarist of the popular rock band Coldplay. could have done worse. Sure, the press pounced pounce 1 v. pounced, pounc·ing, pounc·es v.intr. 1. To spring or swoop with intent to seize someone or something: on them when they recently announced that they'd named their new baby girl Apple, but it's not as though they went way out on the bizarre baby-name limb. Fruit might be one of the less weird things inspiring celebrity parents who most recently have presented the world with offspring named after an instrument, sound waves, a profession and the site of miraculous healings. Once you get a load of Banjo, Audio, Pilot and Lourdes - Apple sounds downright familiar. "We've got girls named for flowers and gems, why not fruits?" said Cleveland Evans, an associate professor of psychology at Nebraska's Bellevue University Mission statement "The mission of Bellevue University is to provide quality liberal arts and career-oriented programs at undergraduate and graduate levels. Exceptional educational value and affordable access are provided to a diverse student body through efficient operation and who studies the names parents give kids. But if you want unique, you don't have to check the birth records in the distant Hollywood Hills The Hollywood Hills, an unofficial designation of part of the City of Los Angeles, California, are part of the eastern section of the low transverse range of the Santa Monica Mountains, which extends from the Los Feliz District and Hollywood, on the south side of the Valley, to . Right here in Oregon, parents have been coming up with head scratchers for years. Oregon parents named their kids after weather, individual letters of the alphabet, nouns, gods, art forms and brand names. Last year, families welcomed little Huricaine, Thunder, Tempest and Cajun-Rain. Siblings siblings npl (formal) → frères et sœurs mpl (de mêmes parents) had to learn to pronounce pro·nounce v. pro·nounced, pro·nounc·ing, pro·nounc·es v.tr. 1. a. To use the organs of speech to make heard (a word or speech sound); utter. b. Cassiopeia, Caledonia, Bodhisatva and Ceallachan. Friends had to cover their surprise over Passion-L, Little, Parfait and Pharaoh. Fishing buddies may have figured a few dads went too far with the names Koi, Pike and Sturgeon sturgeon, primitive fish of the northern regions of Europe, Asia, and North America. Unlike evolutionarily advanced fishes, it has a fine-grained hide, with very reduced scalation, a mostly cartilaginous skeleton, upturned tail fins, and a mouth set well back on the . And parents may have wondered if they could somehow cash in with their brand-name choices: Armani, Chevy, Dodge, Ford and Geo. Brand-naming kids is a national trend, Evans said, and in part reflects parents who choose names not so much for their meaning but because they like the way a word sounds. That's not always the best criteria. A user group Evans follows on the Internet recently talked a mom out of calling her daughter Tyranny Tyranny Big Brother omnipresent leader of a totalitarian nightmare world. [Br. Lit.: 1984] Creon rules Thebes with cruel decrees. [Gk. Lit.: Antigone] Gessler Austrian governor treats Swiss despotically; shot by Tell. , he said. "It took a couple of days to convince her that no, you cannot name your child something that means 'despotic government.' ' Names Oregon parents weren't talked out of last year: Me (a boy), Be (a girl), Nexus, Odyssey and Pandora (all girls); and Jes-C, Wren wren, small, plump perching songbird of the family Troglodytidae. There are about 60 wren species, and all except one are restricted to the New World. The plumage is usually brown or reddish above and white, gray, or buff, often streaked, below. and Mercury (all boys). A couple of parents eschewed vowels, naming a son M and a daughter Abcd. Some Oregon youngsters won't need nicknames, thanks to their folks. They're already named Doc, Slim, Boon and Wolf. And a few lucky girls are going to have to learn to carry off Beautiful, Poetry, Heavenly and Mystique mys·tique n. An aura of heightened value, interest, or meaning surrounding something, arising from attitudes and beliefs that impute special power or mystery to it: the cowboy mystique; the mystique of existentialism. . Meanwhile, in the realm of normal kid names, more parents are trying to avoid the most popular names in any given year, Evans said. That's a 15-year trend made easier by the Internet, he said. "I know a lot of people who have kids in their 20s who say, we would never have named her Jessica or Ashley if we'd known how popular it would be," Evans said. WHAT'S IN A NAME? Oregon baby names: www.ohd.hr.state.or.us/chs/babyname/babyname.cfm Celebrity baby names: www.celebnames.8m.com and www.snarkcake.com/archives/000135.html Oregon favorites: Top 10 names for girls last year were Emma, Emily, Hannah, Madison, Olivia, Grace, Abigail, Elizabeth, Samantha, Isabella. Top 10 names for boys were Jacob, Ethan, Andrew, Joshua, Daniel, Ryan, Zachary, Samuel, Michael, Tyler |
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