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Tristyn Bloom
Matthew Cantirino
Anthony Esolen
Gene Fant
Greg Forster
Matthew J. Franck
Collin Garbarino
Robert P. George
William J. Haun
Leroy Huizenga
Katherine Infantine
Joseph Knippenberg
David T. Koyzis
Robert T. Miller
Matthew Milliner
David Mills
Mark Movsesian
William Mumma
Nathaniel Peters
R.R. Reno
James R. Rogers
Russell E. Saltzman
Matthew Schmitz
Kevin Staley-Joyce
David Talcott
Anna Williams
A friend sends along a link to a New York Times article about naming: “Giving one’s offspring odd, random or deliberately misspelled names is a form of mistreatment that also hurts the rest of society.”
Remembering his fascination with American naming habits, she adds, “I am sure Fr. Neuhaus is chuckling up there.”
May 24th, 2010 | 9:11 pm
For a while, there was a lady writing for the New Zealand Herald whose first name was…
Sioux
Sheesh!
May 24th, 2010 | 9:43 pm
I work in a hospital which, some years, sees the birth of more babies than any other facility in the state.
If only I could name names . . .
Kamilla
May 25th, 2010 | 8:25 am
It’s all about the denial of history. Whatever came before us, we reject. And, as Tom Wolfe wisely wrote, “start from zero!” Because what we come up with is BOUND to be better than what those backward predecessors had to offer.
May 25th, 2010 | 8:42 am
That last “Brittname” looks like something a horse would say.
May 25th, 2010 | 9:31 am
Yes, and Ashley, Ashlee, Ashleigh . . . . enough!
May 25th, 2010 | 1:45 pm
Amen, amen, amen. I work for a call center and all I can say is unless you spell your name the common standard way – Michelle- don’t get all bent out of shape that no one assumes it is Meshyle!
May 25th, 2010 | 2:13 pm
This is what we baby name addicts refer to as kree8tif spellings.
You may of course spell kree8tif however you like.
May 25th, 2010 | 5:40 pm
Nothing more boring than a long line of children with the same basic names, spelled the same basic ways. Nothing more fascinating than variety and creativity. If I don’t mind occasionally spelling my name for people who ask (and in 60 years I have spelled my name quite a lot), why on earth should anyone else mind?
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