I’ve posted about baby names a couple times now, including the American Idol contestant who included ‘Idol’ in her baby’s name and the Chinese couple who wanted to name their child “@”. However, if you’d like to see some names which are more on the common side, check out the NameVoyager on babynamewizard.com. Even if you don’t have a child on the way, it’s interesting to check out naming trends over time.
This cool little app lets you check out the popularity of names for each decade since the 1880’s on a graph of how many thousands of babies per million …read more

Early on in the process of picking names for our son I threw a name into the mix that my wife did not like. (It was the name of the baker in the Godfather who was bringing flowers to Vito Corleone in the hospital when Michael met him on the stairs. Anyone know the name?) It was not nearly as bad as what the American Idol contestant named her child, but my wife wasn’t pleased, nonetheless.
While it wasn’t a name that I was tied to, it was definitely different and memorable. I like traditional names, but the idea of …read more

A 9-months-pregnant American Idol contestant went into labor while waiting for her shot at stardom. The most amazing part of this story is what she named her child.
” Fighting off contractions, Antoria went before the judges and sang her best — and even made it through to the next round.
After her tryout, she was taken to a local hospital where she gave birth to a bouncing baby boy weighing 6 lbs., 7 oz., who she promptly named Jamil Labarron Idol McCowan.“

Full story on MSNBC.