Aaron Rodgers may have been named the MVP of the Super Bowl, but is his accomplishment important enough to influence the name of your unborn child? Nine months after the Saints win last year, New Orleans experienced a baby boom unlike any it had ever seen. Hospitals reported a 25 percent increase in births over the past year, and more tots named Drew and Payton (the names of the starting Read more

The pope doesn't like my name; should my parents have cared? In second grade, I was pulled out of (but later allowed back in) the First Communion practice line when the teachers realized that I wasn't named after a saint. I had to laugh when I saw my moniker in the list of those to avoid in a recent Reuters report. It seems that the pope upset some Italian parents and fed the press when he said Read more

Sarah Palin isn't your average mom, but when it came to picking baby names, she went with things near and dear to her heart. In her TLC series, the mother of five said she named her oldest daughter after Bristol Bay where the family fishes and her youngest girl for Alaska's small commuter planes. While the children's names — Track, Bristol, Willow, Piper, and Trig — are unique, they weren't Read more

There were so many Michaels and Daniels in school when I was growing up that most of those boys were also known by the first letter of their last name. When there were duplicates, the children went by their full names. That, or they decided on a nickname — Mike, Mikey, Dan, Danny, initials, etc. If someone called out one of the common monikers, several kiddos turned around. Some people find Read more