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Waltzing with … Skyler
Tomorrow school goes back in three different states and territories (Queensland has already been back a week), which means that the summer holidays are drawing to a close. While in the northern...
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Multicultural Men – Boys Names from Around the World from the Bonds Baby Search
Aasil (Arabic) Adnan (Arabic) Adriano (Italian) Akil (Arabic) Alakai (Polynesian) Aleksandr (Russian) Amon (Hebrew) Andre (French etc) Andrei (Russian) Anuj (Indian) Aras (Lithuanian) Ardem (Armenian)...
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Global Girls – More Names from Around the World from the Bonds Baby Search
Akira (Japanese et al) Amara (Igbo et al) Amaya (Spanish et al) Anamaya (Indian) Annalisa (Italian) Annika (Swedish) Anushka (Russian) Anya (Russian) Aranya (Indian) Arya (Indian) Astrid (Scandinavian)...
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The People’s Choice of Girl’s Names
I have been trying to add Featured Names from those in the search terms, when possible. To celebrate the start of spring, I’m choosing ten names for each gender that people have used as search terms to...
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Famous Name: Abel Tasman
Last Wednesday, September 12, commemorated the founding of the colony of Tasmania. Although it doesn’t seem to be celebrated in Tasmania, I thought we’d look at the man who gave his name to the state....
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Should She Change the Spelling of Her Daughter’s Name?
Laura has a five-month-old daughter named Lijsbeth, which is a traditional Dutch spelling of the name Lisbet, and is pronounced LEES-bet. Few people have been able to pronounce Lijsbeth’s name, and...
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Celebrity Sibset: Kate Langbroek
Dave Hughes and his family have been on the blog twice now, so I thought we should look at his radio partner, Kate Langbroek (surname sounds like Langbrook). Kate and Dave do the breakfast shift...
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Questions About Names
This is a sample of the many random questions about names which get searched to reach the blog. I do try to answer them in posts if I can, but these are ones which I can’t see any way of subtly...
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Names of Fictional Characters for Boys
Asterix Asterix is the hero of the Asterix comic books by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo. The comic book series follows the adventures of a village of Gauls resisting Roman occupation. They manage to...
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The People’s Choice of Girls Names – 2
Here are ten names for girls which have been often searched for to reach my blog. I chose names that aren’t in the Top 100, and come from a range of origins. Anouk Dutch and French short form of Anna....
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Suburbs of Adelaide and Hobart Which Could Be Used as Girls Names
Beulah Beulah Park is an affluent suburb of Adelaide, named after a village in Wales. The name Beulah is from a Hebrew word translated as “married (woman)”. In the Old Testament, the prophet Isaiah...
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Girls Names from International Destinations
Aberdeen The third largest city in Scotland, often called The Energy Capital of Europe because of its North Sea oil reserves, and Scotland’s most important city economically. Another of its claims to...
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Boys Names from International Destinations
Arden A region of Warwickshire in England, once thickly covered in trees and known as the Forest of Arden. It has strong Shakespearean connections, as William Shakespeare’s home town of...
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Fresh Surname Names For Boys
Surname names for boys that aren’t popular in Australia and have never charted here, yet are rising internationally. These names only chart for boys at present, giving them a solidly masculine feel....
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Rare Boys Names From the 1950s
The most popular boys names of the 1950s were Peter, John, Robert, and David, but what were the least popular names? Here are ten names which were only chosen once in any year between 1950 and 1959 in...
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