Friday, July 27, 2007

celebrity baby names

my brain is pretty fried tonight - one more day and the owl of learning flies, well, drives back to nyc for a few days of fun and frolicking. the editors of the times online probably don't have the same excuses, but, well, here are some of the baby names they have highlighted for our edification:

Apple: Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow

Astrella Celeste: Donovan and Linda Lawrence (also parents to Oriole Nebula)

Audio Science: Shannyn Sossamon

Blue Angel: U2's The Edge and Aislinn O'Sullivan

Bluebell Madonna: Geri Halliwell

Camera: Arthur Ashe and Jeanne Moutoussamy

Diezel Ky: Toni Braxton and Keri Lewis (also parents to Denim Cole)

Fuchsia: Sting and Frances Tomelty

Gulliver: Gary Oldman and Donya Fiorentino

Jermajesty: Jermaine Jackson and Alejandra Genevieve Oaziaza (previously married to Jermaine's brother Randy)

Kal-El Coppola: Nicholas Cage (Kal-El is Superman’s original birth name)

Moxie CrimeFighter: Penn Jillette (also father to Zolten)

Pilot Inspektor: Jason Lee and Beth Riesgraf

do these meet what i have always considered the benchmark, i.e., the names chosen by paula yates for her daughters, and frank zappa for many of his children?

Fifi Trixibell: Bob Geldof and Paula Yates (also parents to Peaches and Pixie)
Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily: Paula Yates and Michael Hutchence

Moon Unit: Frank Zappa, also father to Dweezil and Diva Muffin

i was always worried that if i had any brothers, they would have had some of our german family names, and would be cursed with millstones like julius, leopold, georg and ignatz (hang on a sec, am i related to the marx brothers?!). Sisters might have had to be named sofie (pronounced 'zoffy') or erna or hedwig (r.i.p.). i do have cousins named after astronomical bodies. it could have been so much worse than 'ravaj'!

at least van nest polglase made his name stand for something ...

to see the rest of the selections from the times, look here.

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