The top baby names 2009 were announced last week by the Social Security Administration, and the big news is that Isabella unseated Emma as the top girls’ name. Jacob remains for its 11th year atop the boys’ list.
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This year was notable by a swell of great celebrity baby names, far outweighing the quirky, strange, and downright bad. What were the very best? According to a Nameberry poll of nearly 700 people, the winners are:
SERAPHINA ROSE ELIZABETH, name of the second daughter of Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck, for girls.
And for boys, JASPER WARREN, second son of Kimberly Williams-Paisley and Brad Paisley.
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A new Johns Hopkins study shows a dangerous link between low Vitamin D levels in teens and the risk of diabetes and heart disease.
After groundbreaking surgery that removed six of her vital organs, temporarily at least, seven year old Heather McNamara heads home to a family that couldn’t be happier.
The Girl Scouts don’t get this whole internet thingy and ban online cookie sales.
Today’s lesson on Sesame Street is subtraction and percentages as they cut 20% of its staff.
In return for not teleporting all of us into another dimension, the ten smartest kids in the country are named winners in the Intel Science Talent Search.
Meanwhile, after flopping at the box office, the Jonas Brothers head back to work with a summer tour.
Anne Heche has named her newborn son Atlas and nobody shrugged.
America’s favorite role models for unwed teenage parenting, Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston, decide to call off their engagement.
“That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”
Apparently, Shakespeare would not understand the current “baby naming” obsession. Today name selection is seen as an important part of a child’s life, even perhaps shaping their future.
And so, a once simple element swirling around the universe of giving birth, is now a complex and anxious process for new parents, as they are presented with a diverse array of choices and must face the fall-out from a bad decision.
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