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Title: HER NAME IS RAMONA!
Post by: j.U.d.E. on October 04, 2006, 04:56:49 am
!! C ~ O ~ N ~ G ~ R ~ A ~ T ~ U ~ L ~ A ~ T ~ I ~ O ~ N ~ S !!

Maggie Gyllenhaal, 28, and fiancé Peter Sarsgaard, 35, welcomed their first baby together tonight
in New York City, reports Just Jared. Baby Ramona arrived two weeks ahead of her due date.

Stephen Gyllenhaal (Maggie's father) confirms the news via email through his publisher - the proud
grandpa says Ramona made her debut at 8 pm.

[Source: http://www.celebrity-babies.com]

j. U. d. E.
Title: Re: HER NAME IS RAMONA!
Post by: opinionista on October 04, 2006, 05:31:33 am
Wow. I'm certainly happy for them. However, bad choice of name IMO. I don't like it at all! But I'll bet she's a beautiful baby.  :D
Title: Re: HER NAME IS RAMONA!
Post by: Kelda on October 04, 2006, 05:56:03 am
You can imagine jake being a doting Uncle can't you!?
Title: Re: HER NAME IS RAMONA!
Post by: MaineWriter on October 04, 2006, 06:59:01 am
Ramona? It was the 257th most popular name in the 1940s, and 241st in the 1960s, but dropped out of the top 1000 in the 1990s. Maybe they are hoping for a celebrity comeback or something. It makes me think of the "Ramona" books (Beezus and Ramona? something like that).

L
Title: Re: HER NAME IS RAMONA!
Post by: David on October 04, 2006, 07:03:23 am
Ramona?    Mona for short!    :)      Makes me think of the character "Mona Ramsey" in the book & film series :  "Tales of the City" by Armistead Maupin. 
Title: Re: HER NAME IS RAMONA!
Post by: Daniel on October 04, 2006, 07:55:25 am
Quote from: MaineWriter on October 04, 2006, 06:59:01 am
Ramona? It was the 257th most popular name in the 1940s, and 241st in the 1960s, but dropped out of the top 1000 in the 1990s. Maybe they are hoping for a celebrity comeback or something. It makes me think of the "Ramona" books (Beezus and Ramona? something like that).

L

Beatrice and Romana
Title: Re: HER NAME IS RAMONA!
Post by: delalluvia on October 04, 2006, 08:02:48 am
Ramona is eech.   :P  Mona is cool.

Beatrice is only cool if you're the daughter of the Duchess of York.   :)
Title: Re: HER NAME IS RAMONA!
Post by: MaineWriter on October 04, 2006, 08:37:04 am
Quote from: Daniel on October 04, 2006, 07:55:25 am
Beatrice and Romana

I should trust my aging memory. It is Beezus and Ramona:

In Beezus and Ramona, Beezus, who is just turning ten, finds four-year-old Ramona an exasperating little sister who invites her nursery school friends to an unplanned party, takes one bite out of each apple in the box, and spoils her birthday cake—twice.

I read that Heath and Michelle named Matilda after the Matilda in Roald Dahl's book. Maybe Maggie and Peter are Ramona fans. Beverly Cleary wrote five Ramona books. Beezus and Ramona was the first. For more, see:

http://www.beverlycleary.com/index.html

Leslie
Title: Re: HER NAME IS RAMONA!
Post by: Daniel on October 04, 2006, 08:53:54 am
Yeah, Beezus was what everyone called her... I forgot that somehow... probably because she got to the point where she didn't like it anymore. I got "Ramona the Pest" when I was in fourth grade.
Title: Re: HER NAME IS RAMONA!
Post by: ednbarby on October 04, 2006, 09:10:36 am
I think Ramona is very pretty.  I like old-fashioned names.  It's sure as hell better than all those surname/unisex names they're giving girls these days, and a million times better than a fruit.

I work with a woman named Ramona who goes by Mona, as a matter of fact, and we were talking about a month ago about how no one ever names their girls names like ours anymore.  I should call her and tell her someone finally did.  :)

Will came four weeks early.  If she's small, I hope they won't be too concerned.  It means nothing.  Will weighed 5.0 pounds at birth and was only 18 inches long.  He had to be in the NICU for four days because his blood sugar level wouldn't stabilize so they had to give him glucose by I.V.

At 4 1/2, he's off the charts tall for his age (45 inches) and of average weight.  He's gonna be taller than his daddy, who's 6 feet tall, if the formula they use at 2 years old is accurate.

Hope it all went as smoothly as possible for her.  Your first is so scary because unless you have a scheduled C-section, you just have no idea how it's going to go, and that unknown factor is daunting.  It's so nice that her family was all around her.  My brothers and parents had zero interest in being with or near me when Will was born.  Granted, I was 36 and had been married for 11 years, and they already had multiple grandchildren.  My mother would have been there come hell or high water.  As it turned out, Ed's sister and parents are the ones who were there.  I still think of them as my true family and I always will no matter what happens.

ANYway..., welcome to this place, Ramona.  You've been born into an extraordinary family.  (And for what it's worth, I think your name is lovely.)

~ Barb, from her hit song "On And On"
Title: Re: HER NAME IS RAMONA!
Post by: serious crayons on October 04, 2006, 10:03:48 am
Hey, I think Ramona is a nice name! But then, I love names that are slightly outdated and obscure.

My 12-year-old son has a name that I'd never heard on anybody younger than 65. Then I met a kid in the neighborhood with the same name, about four years younger than my son. I figured his parents must have heard me hollering down the street while expecting their baby and thought, "Hmmm ...!"

I assumed Heath and Michelle picked Matilda because it's a classic Australian name, as in Waltzing.

Barb, you posted while I was writing. Great minds!  :)
Title: Re: HER NAME IS RAMONA!
Post by: Brokeback_Dev on October 04, 2006, 10:04:34 am
Mona was Mary's best friend in the sit com the Mary tyler Moore show...remember Mona from NYC?
Title: Re: HER NAME IS RAMONA!
Post by: chefjudy on October 04, 2006, 10:05:35 am
 :) CONGRATULATIONS!! to the happy parents and family - we know this child has some excellent genetic material!!

I did not know that Maggie was due so soon - silly me, I thought it was a future event like months away.  Hope everything went well for Mom and child. :D
Title: Re: HER NAME IS RAMONA!
Post by: serious crayons on October 04, 2006, 10:10:42 am
Quote from: brokeback_dev on October 04, 2006, 10:04:34 am
Mona was Mary's best friend in the sit com the Mary tyler Moore show...remember Mona from NYC?


Sorry, but that was Rhoda.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071040/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071040/)

But there's a famous painting of a woman named Mona. Her last name is Lisa.
Title: Re: HER NAME IS RAMONA!
Post by: opinionista on October 04, 2006, 10:19:51 am
Just for my own education, why is Ramona considered a classic, literary name? I keep reading that here. As far as I'm concerned it is just the femenine for Ramón, a very common spanish name. Ramón - Ramona. Curiously, not many anglosaxon boys are named Ramón, are they?
Title: Re: HER NAME IS RAMONA!
Post by: MaineWriter on October 04, 2006, 10:26:35 am
Quote from: opinionista on October 04, 2006, 10:19:51 am
Just for my own education, why is Ramona considered a classic, literary name? I keep reading that here. As far as I'm concerned it is just the femenine for Ramón, a very common spanish name. Ramón - Ramona. Curiously, not many anglosaxon boys are named Ramón, are they?

Natali, the Ramona books are hardly literature! LOL

Ramon has been continuously popular as a boy's name in the US, more so than Ramona, and was no. 364 in 2005.

L
Title: Re: HER NAME IS RAMONA!
Post by: serious crayons on October 04, 2006, 10:29:46 am
I just went to a baby name site and looked up my son's name and found its use has actually been rising -- in the 2000s it is more popular than it has been since the 1890s.

I guess I was hollering louder than I thought!
 
Title: Re: HER NAME IS RAMONA!
Post by: ednbarby on October 04, 2006, 10:43:57 am
It's so interesting to me how very, VERY subjective names are.  I never got so much advice on one thing while I was pregnant as I did on names.  People would say, "What do you think you're going to name him?"  I'd say, "We've already decided on Will."  And most would say, "You know what name *I* like?"  (I'd think, "No, but I'm sure you're gonna tell me.")  Nine times out of ten, they'd say a name and I'd think "EWWWW."  Which was probably what they were thinking about Will.  Every now and then someone would say, "Oh, I LOVE that name!"  But that was the exception.

Funny thing - our son's name is his given name.  It's not short for anything.  We figured we should just name him what we wanted to call him to avoid any confusion.  But what do we get now?  "Oh, Will.  Short for William, right?"

 ::)
Title: Re: HER NAME IS RAMONA!
Post by: serious crayons on October 04, 2006, 12:40:48 pm
What I hate is when you're pregnant and people ask what names you're considering and THEY'RE the ones who go "EEEEWWWWW!!" Or "Oh. Um ... well, that's an interesting choice." Or "For god's sake, don't name him (whatever)!"

That last comment is what I heard from my relatives -- speaking practically in unison -- when I mentioned we had briefly considered my great-uncle's name. And they were more closely related to my great-uncle! Well, they were probably right, though, and we didn't go with it. The name was Otis.

Here we are, hijacking yet another thread in order to talk about our own kids. We really do need to start that parenting thread, as Mel suggested!   ::)
Title: Re: HER NAME IS RAMONA!
Post by: nakymaton on October 04, 2006, 12:49:11 pm
Hey Katherine, do you want to start it here or in Anything Goes?

And congrats to Maggie and Peter. And the name "Ramona" makes me nostalgic for 4th grade... well, if anything could make me nostalgic for 4th grade.
Title: Re: HER NAME IS RAMONA!
Post by: serious crayons on October 04, 2006, 12:57:09 pm
Quote from: nakymaton on October 04, 2006, 12:49:11 pm
Hey Katherine, do you want to start it here or in Anything Goes?

I'd say Anything Goes, having just hijacked the Blackout thread over there to talk about my kids.

I wonder if her full name will be Ramona Gyllenhaal-Sarsgaard? Lots of A's! (Maybe they should have gone with Ramonaa.)
Title: Re: HER NAME IS RAMONA!
Post by: Shakesthecoffecan on October 04, 2006, 01:14:26 pm
Bless her little heart, best wishes for her in her long, long life. I like to see old names like hers rekindled, but I doublt we'll ever see the revival of Beulah.
Title: Re: HER NAME IS RAMONA!
Post by: ednbarby on October 04, 2006, 01:29:15 pm
Quote from: latjoreme on October 04, 2006, 12:57:09 pm
I'd say Anything Goes, having just hijacked the Blackout thread over there to talk about my kids.

 :laugh:
Title: Re: HER NAME IS RAMONA!
Post by: cmr107 on October 04, 2006, 02:39:50 pm
I think Ramona is a pretty name. My roommate is playing a woman named Ramona in our current musical. Is it really an old-fashioned name? It seems more modern to me, but I don't really know much about names.
Title: Re: HER NAME IS RAMONA!
Post by: ednbarby on October 04, 2006, 02:43:32 pm
Quote from: cmr107 on October 04, 2006, 02:39:50 pm
I think Ramona is a pretty name. My roommate is playing a woman named Ramona in our current musical. Is it really an old-fashioned name? It seems more modern to me, but I don't really know much about names.

To me, any name is old-fashioned that doesn't follow some current trend, like the surname thing or going with one of the top 5 most popular names, most of which sound something like Kaitlin or Nicholas.
Title: Re: HER NAME IS RAMONA!
Post by: Lumière on October 04, 2006, 02:51:51 pm
I don't mind old-fashioned names at all!  Ramona is a cute name ..

Good for Maggie and Peter!!  :D
Title: Re: HER NAME IS RAMONA!
Post by: RouxB on October 05, 2006, 01:25:25 am
At least they didn't name her Calvina

 O0
Title: Re: HER NAME IS RAMONA!
Post by: mvansand76 on October 05, 2006, 06:17:07 am
Yeeeaaah! I read it in the paper today, so happy for them, gosh that must be one hell of a baby with two intelligent and beautiful people as its parents. And Jake as its uncle!  :)

What about that name though?
Title: Re: HER NAME IS RAMONA!
Post by: MaineWriter on October 05, 2006, 06:28:28 am
Quote from: RouxB on October 05, 2006, 01:25:25 am
At least they didn't name her Calvina

 O0

LOL...

How about Peter + Maggie = Peggie. That would have worked.

or Maggie + Peter = Mater. Make that the middle name and make the first Alma. Alma Mater, what do you think? And then it has a Brokeback connection, too.

Okay, maybe Ramona is not so bad after all.

L
Title: Re: HER NAME IS RAMONA!
Post by: katecaton on October 17, 2006, 05:11:36 pm
Quote from: MaineWriter on October 04, 2006, 06:59:01 am
Ramona? It was the 257th most popular name in the 1940s, and 241st in the 1960s, but dropped out of the top 1000 in the 1990s. Maybe they are hoping for a celebrity comeback or something. It makes me think of the "Ramona" books (Beezus and Ramona? something like that).

L
I read these as a kid "Ramona The Pest" was my fave.  :laugh:
Title: Re: HER NAME IS RAMONA!
Post by: welliwont on October 23, 2006, 08:27:32 pm
Quote from: MaineWriter on October 04, 2006, 10:26:35 am
Natali, the Ramona books are hardly literature! LOL


Quote from: katecaton on October 17, 2006, 05:11:36 pm
I read these as a kid "Ramona The Pest" was my fave.  :laugh:

I beg to differ, I think Ramona the Pest, and all the rest of the author's books certainly are fine literature, I'd be willing to bet that millions of kids loved all the books written by that literary genius who is Beverly Cleary.

In my own family, it was the Ramona books, and nothing else, that gave my sister the taste for reading.  She had invisible learning problems (this was in the sixties) she *hated* and struggled mightily all through school.  She couln't read well, she couldn't spell, and more.  The best thing that happened to her in school was findiing the Ellen Tibbits book and Ramona The Pest on the school library shelves.  She brought them home and she started to read for pleasure for the first time in her life.  I will never forget the change they made in her life.  She actually started to read books at the ripe old age of 12.  She turned into a reader only  because of Beverly Cleary.

To me those books were a godsend, not to be snickered at.  If Tom Sawyer is Literature, then why not Ramona The Pest?

Jane
Title: Re: HER NAME IS RAMONA!
Post by: Ellemeno on October 25, 2006, 03:42:36 pm
Quote from: JakeTwist on October 23, 2006, 08:27:32 pm
I beg to differ, I think Ramona the Pest, and all the rest of the author's books certainly are fine literature, I'd be willing to bet that millions of kids loved all the books written by that literary genius who is Beverly Cleary.

In my own family, it was the Ramona books, and nothing else, that gave my sister the taste for reading.  She had invisible learning problems (this was in the sixties) she *hated* and struggled mightily all through school.  She couln't read well, she couldn't spell, and more.  The best thing that happened to her in school was findiing the Ellen Tibbits book and Ramona The Pest on the school library shelves.  She brought them home and she started to read for pleasure for the first time in her life.  I will never forget the change they made in her life.  She actually started to read books at the ripe old age of 12.  She turned into a reader only  because of Beverly Cleary.

To me those books were a godsend, not to be snickered at.  If Tom Sawyer is Literature, then why not Ramona The Pest?

Jane


Jane, that's a very inspiring story.  Thanks for telling it.