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Top 100 baby names 2005 (in U.S.)
MaineWriter:
For people who are into names, past and present, this website can be addicting:
http://babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/lnv0105.html
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Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: kelda_shelton on October 18, 2006, 03:56:15 am ---Kylie has just become known in the states but has been around for a long time. She was a child actress. I first knew her from the Hendersons Kids - an Oz kids programme where she rode about on a bike a fair bit.
But she became REALLY famous in 86 when she had a role in Oz soap Neighbours. her character was Charlene - a tomboy girl who became a mechanic and married the heart throb male teenage character called Scott Robinson (one Jason Donavon that now does lots of WestEnd musicals) . I cried at the wedding!! And I loved 'Suddenly' the song they played at the wedding and which became a hit. I must download it on to my MP3 player some time.
She was in the film the delinquents in 1989 which i deperately wanted to see but was never allowed as it was a 15 rating and I was 8!.
Anyway - Kylie then went on to be a HUGE pop star, but in the mid 90's she kinda dissapeared as a large pop icon but she came back in 2000 and blew us all away again.
She was also the green fairy in moulin rouge because Baz Lurhmann loves here!
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Thanks, Kelda. I had no clue that Kylie Minogue has been around that long. I knew she has recently had a bout with cancer, but I had no idea she had been a child star.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: moremojo on October 18, 2006, 12:33:31 pm ---Noticed that neither my first name, Barry, nor my middle name, Scott, made the top 100, but Eric, a name my mother came very close to calling me, is number 73.
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"Barry Scott"? Hey, that sounds classy!
(Be glad you're not stuck with "Jeffrey Lynn." :laugh: )
MaineWriter:
--- Quote from: moremojo on October 18, 2006, 12:33:31 pm ---Noticed that neither my first name, Barry, nor my middle name, Scott, made the top 100, but Eric, a name my mother came very close to calling me, is number 73.
I really like the name Samuel, and its shortened form Sam, and note that both made the list.
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If my daughter Hannah had been a boy, she was going to be Samuel Benjamin, which is a family name....
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moremojo:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on October 18, 2006, 01:29:17 pm ---If my daughter Hannah had been a boy, she was going to be Samuel Benjamin, which is a family name....
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I've long been fond of the name Benjamin too (which I notice is number 26); in fact, I remember as a child sometimes wishing I had been named Benjamin. So your daughter, had she been male, would have had the best of both worlds! ;)
But actually, I think everyone should take pride in their names, and I always coax people who hate their names to come to terms with them. And while on that subject, has anyone ever thought to revive some of the ancient Roman names? In the nineteenth century, one sometimes reads of an Octavia here and there, but, apart from a common form like Julia, Roman names seem scarce today, at least among women. I want to see someone revive one of my favorites--Scribonia.
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