Celebrity Baby Names

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If the worst thing she's doing to her kid for publicity is feeding her yummy, yummy cake, I think the kid'll be okay.

I guess you're right, worse than a sunset, but hey, I'm sure that poor kid wasn't really allowed to eat some of that cake for fear of spoiling her designer dress !
Topic : I think Bluebell Madonna is an OK name. Definitely not the worst as far as celebrity baby names are concerned.

Harold Perrineau's kid, from the interview over in the Lost thread:

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TV Guide: Was she in labor at the hospital when you got back to L.A.?

Perrineau: No, I got home and then for another week, the baby would not come! We were like, "Seriously, dude, I was in Hawaii rushing like a madman!” I was talking to the baby, my wife was walking around, practically hiking, but the baby just would not come out! [Laughs] So we went to the hospital a week later and induced. A beautiful little girl came on May 7. Wynter Aria — I thought it was a nice name. It's poetic, and she's a little poetry in our life.

Heeee.

From the new VF magazine (Angelina, obviously):

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“Where does the name Shiloh come from?,” I asked.

“It’s a biblical name,” she told me, “but we didn’t name her for that. It was a name my parents almost named their first child—there was a miscarriage: Shiloh Baptist. Because my father had been shooting in Georgia and that was the most southern name [my parents] could come up with. It’s a name I always liked. I used to go under it in hotels: Shiloh Baptist. I’d gone under it when [Brad] called hotel rooms where I was staying.”

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From the new VF magazine (Angelina, obviously):

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“Where does the name Shiloh come from?,” I asked.

“It’s a biblical name,” she told me, “but we didn’t name her for that. It was a name my parents almost named their first child—there was a miscarriage: Shiloh Baptist. Because my father had been shooting in Georgia and that was the most southern name [my parents] could come up with. It’s a name I always liked. I used to go under it in hotels: Shiloh Baptist. I’d gone under it when [Brad] called hotel rooms where I was staying.”

That's...sort of ooky.

"Hey honey, you are named after a dead baby and the pseudonym I used when your dad called me for booty calls!"

I love Angelina, but she's pretty infamous for her oversharing.

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That's...sort of ooky.

Yeah just when I think she's over her daddy issues, bam. Not that she should be over them, Voight was a real fucknut of a father, but it's a little sad/strange.

While I am not trying to justify Angelina Jolie's choices, it should be noted that when child mortality rates were incredibly high, people would often re-use a name after a child had died.
FDR and his wife lost a child named Franklin Delano Jr in infancy and then named another child that came along later the same thing.

Though the booty call/hotel name thing is a little peculiar.

Shiloh Baptist?

I think I've been to that church. Also, I hope the rumors of Castor and Pollux for the twin girls are not true.

Did any one see The Soup this weekend? Miller Lyte got a shout-out.

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Shiloh Baptist?

It was the 60s. Nuff said.

Eh, I don't find the reuse of Shiloh to be creepy. It was basically going to AJ's older sibling, and it wouldn't be creepy if it was after a sibling that died as a child. I'm glad they ditched the "Baptist" part, though. That's a religion, not a name.

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While I am not trying to justify Angelina Jolie's choices, it should be noted that when child mortality rates were incredibly high, people would often re-use a name after a child had died.

My grandfather's sister died when she was 8 years old, so my great-grandparents gave her name to the daughter that was born a few years later. It's not all that uncommon, and I don't find it creepy. It's a nice tribute, I think.

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While I am not trying to justify Angelina Jolie's choices, it should be noted that when child mortality rates were incredibly high, people would often re-use a name after a child had died.

My grandfather's sister died when she was 8 years old, so my great-grandparents gave her name to the daughter that was born a few years later. It's not all that uncommon, and I don't find it creepy. It's a nice tribute, I think.

Heh. My great-grandparents did the same thing, and when WWII broke out my grandmother's (then underage) brother enlisted in the army with the dead brother's birth certificate. It seems to be a practice that's been fazed out in the last couple generations or so as child mortality rates have decreased, but it's not the first time that I've recently heard of people doing that.

My poor brother-in-law was named after his deceased sister. With a no-doubt-about-it girl's name. I have no idea what the parent's were thinking.

My mother is named after her deceased Aunt. The poor girl died when she was only two, I think. I don't find that part weird. It was a little strange to be walking through the cemetary and see my mother's name on a gravestone though.

Jack Black's new babys name is Thomas:

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The Kung Fu Panda star also has his own baby news to spill, and Vieira admitted to Black that she misspoke earlier – claiming his newborn son has been named Jack.

"Not true," Black said. "It's Thomas. I said we named the baby after me, but I didn't say that my actual name is Thomas." Thomas's big brother Samuel turns 2 this month.