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I started a page on Name Nerds devoted to celebrity baby names. I figured it was relevant, since many of our naming trends start with the Beautiful People and then filter down to us folks until they are beaten into the dirt for the last time in the trailer parks. So, I looked up celeb baby websites and gathered up a bunch of names. plus, our favorite media whores “Brangelina,” “TomKat” and “Gwavin” have spawned lately, not to mention Apple Alison Blythe Martin now has a baby brother. Oh yeah, and then there’s Ginger Spice’s new daughter. Yeah, I’m not going to comment on the name choices of movie and rock stars these days–I’d personally rather be named Moon Unit than Bluebell Madonna, but that’s just me.

Anyway, I’ve been scouring the innernets for all the celebrity baby names I can find. Some of them (like Charles Darwin’s and Frank Lloyd Wright’s) kids are long dead. Some of them, like Mick Jagger’s kids have kids of their own. Yeah, I’ve been going overboard looking for everyone, no matter how seemingly fogotten (like Annie Potts from “Designing Women” and of course Abe Vigoda). I’ve uncovered all sorts of bizarre names!

Here are a few of my faves: Seven Sirius (Erykah Badu & Andre 3000’s son), twins Eli One (a boy) and Eli Two (a girl)– belonging to Elephant Man (the rapper), Chudney Lane (Diana Ross’s daughter), Harry Thunder (this sounds obscene, thanks to Terry Gilliam), and of course few can top Jason Lee’s own Pilot Inspektor. It seems like everyone has either a Lily, a Lola, and/or an Isabelle/a. See? Isabella is now in the top 10 for us regular folks. It all started with the movie stars.

I’d like to see them reviving names like Myrtle and Irving. I bet if Britney Spears and J-Lo or whoever’s knocked up in hollywood these days started naming kids Mavis and Hubert, eventually everyone would follow suit. Violet, one of my favorite names, has already been used a couple of times in recent years… old lady names are apparently “in” (Julia Roberts has a Hazel). This means if I want to find unusual names, I’m going to either have to make them up myself, or start getting into names like Sharon, Barbara, Sally, and Judy.

Anyway, that’s enough ranting for me. Ask me the name of any celebrity’s baby. Go ahead, ask! Unfortunately, I’ll probably know what it is. DAMN YOU, BRAIN! I wish I could retain some important or useful knowledge for once!