Celebrities: Having Babies, Naming Babies

I also don't like nicknames as names, but I've loved Frankie as a girl's name ever since I read Member of the Wedding, and debated whether to name my own daughter Frances so that I could call her Frankie.

I love it. Olive and Frankie is adorable.

Olive Wilde and Jason Sudeikis named their boy Otis.

I kind of love that.

That's a great name! Hits that sweet spot between unusual but still classic and not too weird.

I used to have zero feelings on Olivia Wilde or Jason Sudeikis, but somehow put them together and I really like them!

I don't know about Otis Sudeikis...not that it's bad, just not a combo I would use.

This is clearly a generational thing, because all I can picture when I hear "Otis" is the town drunk on The Andy Griffiths Show.

All I can think of is Ellen Tebbitts' tormentor.

Otis Spofford! That's who I think of too, hee.

I'm also unsure about "Otis Sudeikis," but I like the name overall.

I feel like he's going to become Otis S'dkis because of the identical ending syllables, but that's not the end of the world. Also, Otie is an adorable nickname.

The only Otis I know of is Otis Redding, so yay.

"Otisburg? OTISBURG?!?"

I think of Milo & Otis. But I don't remember if Otis is the cat or the dog. I like it. It's not super common, but it's an actual human (and animal) name.

laddical wrote:"Otisburg? OTISBURG?!?"

Yeah, that's the Otis I thought of too when I heard it.

Congrats to them.

I can totally see Otis being the next old-man hipster baby name. I think Homer tried to make a comeback at one point.

(I feel the same way about Hannah, which was my great-grandmother's name, and is suddenly everywhere again.)

"Otisburg? OTISBURG?!?" wrote:

That made me laugh hard.

Personally, I immediately think of Otis Day and the Nights. If I were ever around a kid named Otis, I would be forced to greet him with a hearty "Otis! My man!" every time I saw him.

Not terribly relevant, but "Miss Otis Regrets" has been running through my head for the past couple of days.

For some reason, the name Otis just always brings a faithful dog to mind. Not a bad name by any means though.

The Glen wrote:Not terribly relevant, but "Miss Otis Regrets" has been running through my head for the past couple of days.

Madam.

The Glen wrote:Not terribly relevant, but "Miss Otis Regrets" has been running through my head for the past couple of days.

To hear Ella Fitzgerald sing that song is a thing of great beauty.

Apparently Kerry Washington had a baby girl and named her Isabelle Amarachi Asomugha.  I love that name!

Isabelle is a lovely name, and I love the spelling choice!

whatthedeuce wrote:Isabelle is a lovely name, and I love the spelling choice!

It's the French spelling. :)  It's always been quite a popular name among French speakers, but I've been surprised to see how popular it has been with English speakers in recent years (in all its variations.) It's one of my favourite girl names.

Roger Federer seems to have named his twins both Leonard. One's Lenny, and the other is Leo. Course, this is his second set of twins, so in fairness his brain is probably blown.

One might be Leopold. But yeah, he should have been thinking about this beforehand. :)