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Father’s Day Names: Dads of the rich and famous
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  It’s Father’s Day, and once more this year we commemorate the holiday with a list of some notable names of the paternal parents of celebrities of various times and places, with some truly unusual examples, as in Archulus (Truman Capote) and Belmont (Humphrey Bogart).  It turns out that quite a  number of past (and...
Presidents Day Names: The Veeps’ Turn
Apr 17, 2025
  When Presidents Day rolls around, on our site and others, a lot of attention is paid to the influential names of our past presidents—Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Tyler, Taylor, Truman, Lincoln, Kennedy et al—and sometimes the names of their wives and children as well.  And so I thought that this year it...
Boys’ Names: Naming a son the Pinkett-Smith family way
Apr 17, 2025
  This week Appellation Mountain’s Abby Sandel follows the lead of Jada Pinkett (with son Jaden) in showing us how to find boys’ names honoring a female namesake.   Jaden Christopher Syre Smith turns 13 next month.  Smith is Hollywood royalty, the son of actors Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith, and his name is...
NASCAR Baby Names: Racing Towards the Right Name
Apr 17, 2025
  This week, AppellationMountain‘s Abby Sandel finds baby-name inspiration racing around the Daytona International Speedway.   Did you see newcomer Trevor Bayne win the Daytona 500 last week?    Me neither.    NASCAR might seem like an unlikely place to look for baby name inspiration.  But if moms suggest ideas while dads exercise veto power,...
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