
New York: Jacob, Ethan and Michael were the top boy names in 2010, while Isabella, Sophia and Emma were favorites for girls but celebrities are exerting a big influence of what parents chose to name their newborns. An analysis of 23 million page views of individual baby name pages on a baby names website shows that celebrities have a big impact on name selections. "Five years ago, I might have...

12:01 PM, Jul 27, 2011

New Delhi: With Victoria and David Beckham's daughter being called Harper Seven Beckham, we are taken back to a trauma celeb-kids seem have come to suffer. The burden of a name and years of merciless teasing from classmates and children at the playground. They are born with silver spoons in their mouths, but their parents with a lack of imagination (or perhaps too much of it) proceed to bless the...

07:37 PM, Jul 11, 2011

Vatican City: If you're Catholic and are expecting a baby don't even think of naming it anything like Crystal, Heather, Track or Chelsea unless you want to upset Pope Benedict. The pope, who baptised 21 children on Sunday at a traditional annual ceremony at the Vatican, said afterwards that every new member of the faith acquires the character of a son or daughter of the Church "starting from a Christian...

05:05 PM, Jan 11, 2011

Parents-to-be can now check baby name meanings in many languages. ...

08:37 PM, Nov 17, 2009