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Miley, Barack Move Up Baby Name List

Posted by DFO

May 8, 2009 9:19 a.m. • 19 comments

US singer and actress Miley Cyrus, right, seen with her father US musician Billy Ray Cyrus, as they address the crowd, on their arrival for the British Premiere of the film ‘ Hannah Montana’, at a Leicester Square cinema, in London April 23. Barack and Miley moved up, but the classics still rule. Emma is the top baby name for girls, Jacob for boys. Miley, as in popular teen singer Miley Cyrus, moved up 152 spots to No. 127. But her stage name, Hannah _ as in Hannah Montana _ fell from No. 9 to No. 17. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan, FILE)

Question: Do you like the name your parents gave you?

19 comments on this post so far. Add yours!

marmitetoasty on May 08 at 9:38 a.m.
When I named my youngest Jacob almost 16 years ago there was no other Jacobs around here….. he is still the only Jacob in his school (11-16 year olds) but there is one Jacob now in our infant school and one in our village junior school…..

I gave me lads usable names…… so that if they was gonna be solicitors they could have a good strong manly name and if they worked down the mines they could have a shortened name lol

Benjamin - Ben
Thomas - Tom
Samual - Sam
Jacob - Jake

Me, I dont like my name and hated it with a purple passion when I was a child…… Melody…. jebus who the hell calls their kid that LOL

x
JeanieSpokane on May 08 at 9:45 a.m.
I like my name. Actually I go by my middle name and always have. And THAT is a real problem. All through my life I have had problems with legally going by my middle name. In 7th grade, they didn’t believe me and I spent the whole year being somebody I’m not: Donna. I am NOT a Donna. In college, all my registration forms would not allow a spelled out middle name. I had to go by Donna. Half way through college, I got married over Christmas break. I came back to new classes and we were seated alphabetically. Suddenly I was in the front row instead of the back, and the professor kept calling out this one girl’s name: Donna Bxxxxxx, and I was sitting there thinking, oh, isn’t that something, she has my new married name. Oh! It’s ME. I never did well in that class.
marmitetoasty on May 08 at 10:01 a.m.
We also use to tell our Jacob that his real name was ‘Merlin’ but cos it scared people we just call him Jacob instead lol…….. he, for many many years thought it was true lol and would often be heard telling his friends what his real name (or what he thought) was lol…… even at school he would tell the teachers his real name was Merlin lol

Sometimes ya just have to do this to your kids LOL

And Jeanie……. you so aint no Donna :)

x
BethB on May 08 at 10:10 a.m.
Funny stories you guys… I was supposed to be Elizabeth Ann. But my mother wanted me to be called Beth (after the Beth in “Little Women”) and not some other form of Elizabeth, so she named me Beth Mary at the last minute. Though she says I’m a Jo, not a Beth. I didn’t die young, that’s for sure. Weird, though, how much I love Joan of Arc (another one lost at a young age). I like the name. There are very few “just Beths” and even fewer non-Jewish Beths. It’s like having AB negative-type blood. I think I’ve met one other non-Jewish just-Beth in my life. And hey - there’s some Beth in me, I think. I’m not ALL Jo!
BethB on May 08 at 10:11 a.m.
And for non-readers of “LIttle Women” - Beth was the sweet one. Jo was the strident tomboy.
brentandrews on May 08 at 12:00 p.m.
Beth: “And for non-readers of ‘LIttle Women’”

Unfortunately that’s me, tho I can tell you who wrote it. However, in defense of my sensitive side, I love the Little Bear series of childrens’ books, and I can sing all the words to Taylor Swift’s Love Story, and cry while I’m singing, and still hold the old 4-Runner between the lines.

Love the name Beth. Like my sweet sister. Funny, I don’t recall if she was a “just Beth” or something else. I haven’t seen her in so long, sadly. Definitely not Jewish, though.

I always wondered about “Thomas,” as in Thomas Brent Andrews, because I never doubted. But mom knew more about Thomas than I did. Thomas would have made a good journalist. He wanted to see evidence, before he just went around spreading some story. He saw Christ’s wounds, and he believed and spread the word no matter what, in the face of terror, in the face of death, was martyred (killed by sages, interestingly) and became a saint. I don’t think they make saints anymore, not Presbyterian ones anyway because we are all saints and spiritual leaders, but someone once said about me, in High Times no less, “Self-described skate punk and anarchist Thomas Brent Andrews is hell-bent on changing the way law enforcement agencies do business by martyring himself for the cause…”

Now I’m hard on the heels of another story that could make me a martyr, or raise me to the ranks of the best American journalists - a hero like Thomas, writ small.

I think I’ve lived up to my name, almost.

Wiki: Thomas the Apostle/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_the_Apostle

Spokesman/HBO: A Review: “The Pot Plan” by Brent Andrews / http://www.spokesman.com/blogs/hbo/2005/sep/29/a-review-the-pot-plan-by-brent-andrews/
brentandrews on May 08 at 12:04 p.m.
Jeanie: “I am NOT a Donna”

But Jeanie, aren’t we all a little bit Donna?

Urban Dictionary - donna: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=donna
brentandrews on May 08 at 12:12 p.m.
Sorry, the whole reason I clicked here is to say how awesome Miley’s movie is, and that it’s one of those movies that you can take your kids to see with nary an embarassing moment, and that it will make you cry, if you ever cry at movies … and that if you’re a man wondering “Could I possibly sit through this movie,” you’d better believe you can, due to the awesomeness of the relationship between Billy Ray and Miley, which plays out so sweetly and will remind you of your own relationship with your daughters, and in addition … because it’s so full of teeny beauties you’ll think for a moment you’re walking the halls of high school again … and where can you get that anywhere else, in a safe, clean way I mean?

U gotta see the Hannah Montana movie, if you have ever loved a daughter. I loved it, really loved it, and now I can sing almost all the words to “It’s the Climb,” such a sweet and poignant song.
florined on May 08 at 1:39 p.m.
When I moved from elementary to junior high, I managed to switch to my middle name. It wasn’t a problem in college cuz in those days, the instructors used last names…Miss Smith, Mr. Jones, etc. (geez I’m old)

Even today, I’m plagued, though, by people who insist on using my formal first name, and their presumption really annoys me. My thought is that if they insist on presuming a first name basis, they should be sure they know what I use as a first name. Anything less is disrespectful. If I’ve ever been introduced to you, you’ll know me as Florine. If I’ve ever invited you to use my first name, I’ll suggest Florine. If neither of those things have ever happened, where do ya get off calling me by a first name? Old? Crotchety? Outdated? Weird? So be it.
JeanieSpokane on May 08 at 1:46 p.m.
Florine - you understand me. It totally annoys me to fill out forms today, in a New Century, 2009, and they STILL insist on a single digit middle initial. I once was told by a “clerk” to go to court and have my name change to Jean Donna. How stupid sounding is that! And once, a form came back pre-printed as Djean. ARGHHHH.

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