In Florida, Sanjae Obama Fisher was born at 8 p.m. EST at Hollywood’s Memorial Regional Hospital to Patrick and Sasha Hall Fisher. In Arkansas, Benjamin Barack Kimbrough was born at 2:35 p.m. CDT on Election Day to Walter and Adria Kimbrough. Walter Kimbrough is president of Philander Smith College, a historically black school in Little [...]

The New York City Department of Health announced their annual list of most popular baby names on Wednesday. Move over Ashley and Michael – Isabella, Sophia and Daniel are now the names of choice for New York City parents. Ashley and Emily had been the NYC’s top girl names for more than a decade, and [...]

Mark Ciptak, a supporter of Republican presidential candidate John McCain and running mate Sarah Palin, named his newborn daughter after the duo. The baby’s name, Sarah McCain Palin Ciptak, came as a surprise to her mother. Ciptak and his wife Layla had agreed to name the girl Ava Grace, but he instead filled out the [...]

Continuing with tradition on Mother’s Day, the federal government has released the most popular baby names for 2007 Rank Male name Female name 1 Jacob Emily 2 Michael Isabella 3 Ethan Emma 4 Joshua Ava 5 Daniel Madison 6 Christopher Sophia 7 Anthony Olivia 8 William Abigail 9 Matthew Hannah 10 Andrew Elizabeth Note: Rank [...]

Clint sent us a unique name : Pheiress. “It combines the name Paris, as in Hilton, and the word Heiress. I was hoping you could come up with a meaning. Make it a real good one that will stick and that people would want to name their baby. If not then it actually means just [...]

We received an email from Seva Lara regarding her granddaughter’s name: Calisandra. Calisandra – origin Greek – Cali (most beautiful) and Sandra (helper and defender of mankind). Cali is the diminutive of Calista, the mythological arcadian who was transformed by Zeus into a bear and thrown into Heaven to become the Great Bear Constellation and [...]

Sean and Sarah were the most popular babies’ names registered in Ireland last year. According to the Central Statistics Office (CSO), there were 994 boys named Sean in 2006, followed closely by Jack. There were 698 girls named Sarah, followed by Emma, Katie, Aoife and Sophie. The top five boys’ names have all been the [...]

Commissioner of Social Security, Michael J. Astrue, recently announced the top baby names in the USA for 2006. Based on more than 4.2 million Social Security applications for children born last year, parents have picked Emily and Jacob as the most popular baby names for the eighth year in a row. The top 10 boys [...]