So did she.
Posted on 11/30/2004 9:56:16 AM PST by COUNTrecount
And What Name Will Phinnaeus Have for Mommy? By Paul Farhi Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, November 30, 2004; Page C01 Congratulations, Julia Roberts, and you, too, Mr. Julia Roberts, on the birth of your twins, little Hazel and Phinnaeus. But our joy over your Blessed Event is tempered by a couple of questions. To wit: Hazel? And, more important, Phinnaeus? Willis sisters Scout LaRue and Tallulah Belle share a fairly sedate last name. Rumer also has it. (Kevin Mazur -- Wireimage) We know we don't live in a "John" and "Mary" (or "Paul") era anymore, that the traditional honor-thy-ancestors naming consensus of previous generations has collapsed under the weight of all those Caitlins and Connors and Briannas. But Phinnaeus and Hazel? Hazel is retro by at least a couple of generations. The world stopped having Hazels around the time it stopped having Berthas and Gladyses and Mildreds. The last time Hazel was heard from was 1961, when Shirley Booth played a busybody maid of that name in a sitcom of that name. Phinnaeus is even more retro, as in Old Testament retro, and more obscure than such OT running mates as Methuselah and Obadiah. But that's probably the point. Celebrity baby names these days are very . . . different. We say this not to pass judgment, but to point out one more way celebrities are not like the rest of us. The list keeps growing. Demi Moore and Bruce Willis are the parents of Rumer Glenn, Scout LaRue and Tallulah Belle. Gwyneth Paltrow and Coldplay singer Chris Martin recently begat Apple. Sylvester Stallone sired Sage Moonblood and Sistine Rose. Courteney Cox Arquette and David Arquette are the proud parents of Coco.
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Years ago the San Francisco Chronicle would do a regular feature -- about once a year -- on the kids of hippies changing their name. You'd get names like Freedom, Loveandpeace, and Free Nelson Mandela changed to Joseph, Robert and Greg. My favorite quote was, "I'm an accountant now, I did it for professional credibility. People just won't take me seriously with a name like Sunshine."
I don't see a problem with Hazel, either. However, in the case of Coco, I think it's one thing for an adult to adopt it as a nickname (because she was said to have a voice like a rooster cowing, iirc), and another for parents to stick it on a child. Give the poor girl a name, not a nonsense sound.
It's a good name for a pet.
I kind of like Hazel for a name
Don't forget Michaela!
"Tu (daughter of Rob Morrow)"
Tu Morrow? On behalf of that poor kid, I will slap Rob Morrow if I ever see him...
And just to continue the theme- You've got actress Jill Hennessey (from "Law & Order" and "Crossing Jordan".)
Now, there seems to be nothing wrong with that name, at least until you discover that Ms. Hennessey has an identical twin sister named Jacqueline. Yes, the parents named the daughters "Jacq" and "Jill". Sigh.
I suppose you're right, although I doubt that Coco will cause a lot of teasing at school or elsewhere.
OTOH, in France, you must get permission from the local authorities before naming your child, or they won't approve the birth certificate.
One mother decided to name her daughter "Cerise," a rather pretty name, I thought. But, in French, it means "Cherry," also an OK name, IMO. The local clerk in charge of the issue refused to register the name, on the grounds that children should not be named after fruit.
Myself, I like simple names, ones with a long history of use...good solid names. But, that's just me.
Well, at least they named the BOY Phinneaus...perhaps when he's getting his *ss beat by his peers, he could say "They named me like a horse, 'cause I'm hung like..."
Oh, never mind.
Verne's original character is Phileas. I looked it up, too. However, if you google it, you will find Phineas used as well in many versions. And Phineas is how I remember it used.
I had next-door neighbors who named their two kids, Bobbie (the girl) and Darren (the boy). Mom actually used to call them if they were playing outside by yelling, "Bobbie...Darren." Pretty funny.
When I was a kid, my across-the-street neighbors' last name was Noel. They named their eldest son "Lowell." His mom used to yell his name to call him in, too. Lowell Noel! Pretty funny.
I once read a book with a character named Cerise.
Clinique. Just nuts.
We were very careful when naming our 3 boys, looking at initials, monograms, nicknames etc
My oldest's name sounds like a lawyer, lol.
They are all named after family, combinations from my dad, hubby's dad and brother, Daniel and Nathan Boone (great x 8 & 7 grandfathers), hubby's mother's maiden name (in honor of her dad, who hubby idolized) and a great great great uncle who fought at Vicksburg and lost an arm.
Trendy names are icky. And the made-up ones are worse. We really wanted their names to mean something, to have a family connection. I only regret not having a girl, because I've had her name picked out for almost 10 years: Sarah.
Oh well, maybe granddaughter?
Of course, since I have a common name, my mom used to yell, "Get in the house, you rotten kid." Otherwise the neighborhood streets would have emptied.
I'm glad we cleared that up :-).
"I once read a book with a character named Cerise."
"The Alley of Wishes?"
"Windfalls?"
So did she.
Neither sounds familiar ... it might have been a Victoria Holt or Phyllis Whitney novel :-).
Or
"Red as Blood"
"White as Snow"
Seems like a popular character name. I think it's a pretty name, too.
Tennessee Tuxedo will not fail!!
I wouldn't have guessed there were so many! I suppose in France, it would be like being named Apple.
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