The Baby Name Wizard

Tabitha: My mom named me after the little witch it seems.

Also, it looks like someone out there named Waverly has a sister named Snow White :)

just saw on a baby poll website someone who wants to name their kid Nevaeh Kandy, spelled just like that.

Oh my, those are horrible. And poor Sabrina!

I have a friend who's last name is B+low and she wanted to name her daughter Silver. We had a hard time convincing her that together it sounded like a stripper name, but she finally gave up on the name.

I have a soft spot for the entry for "Katresa", because it's what my mom would yell when she couldn't remember if she was calling me or my sister. It's delightful that it's actually a real name! (No entry yet for Trekate, the other version.)

"Please consider that your child will be forever stuck with this name and may forever hate you for sticking it on them. I know I did!!!"

"Someone else commented on how Olivia means "elf army", and I happen to be in the 18th percent range for height for teens my age." is the best part of that Olivia review, imho.

"I would love to be anyone's friend if they are named Kayla, i am always looking for new buddies!"

Demographics 101: "I can't believe this name is so popular, because I only know of 1 Alyssa in the entire school."

Or possibly my favorite ever, and I bet you this is an exchange between commenters here!

My husband won't consider Lydia, because of the unlikable Lydia Bennett in "Pride and Prejudice."

Your husband read Pride and Prejudice? Kudos on snagging a literate one.

Gosh -- have to agree -- very impressive! I'd be willing to concede just for the fact he'd read it and made the connection! Well done, you! :)

LOL - "Your husband read Pride and Prejudice?" - that was my first thought too!

I love the Namepedia, I have a folder of these.

"When we decided to give our daughter (who was born in 2006) the middle name Neveah, we had full-hearted approval from our friends and family, except one who asked me if that wasn't the name of a brand of lotion? Of course, she was referring to the beauty and body care product line Nivea, which I thought was quite amusing. I wonder...has anyone come up with a skin care line called Aevin?"

Response: "No. That has not happened."

My mom named me Melissa because she thought it was pretty and unique, and she'd never heard of anyone naming their baby Melissa. I was born in the mid-1980s. I know dozens of Melissas. I currently work in a two-person office, and my boss is also named Melissa.

Thanks, mom.

@danasurfside I put up a comment to you in the last thread about Vivian Jacqueline and gave you some alternates.

I enjoy reading people's explanations for why they chose an alternative spelling for a name. I find most creative spellings wildly unappealing, so I like to hear how people came up with them and what those spellings mean to them. It seems that some parents feel a sense of exhilaration and ownership when they feel like they have created something (a name, not a child!). Others, especially those using a more traditionally masculine name for a girl, seem to be very concerned about making the spelling read as feminine. Examples:

McKinley: "I named my daughter Mckinley, only I spelled it Makynlee, because I thought it was prettier that way, lol,"

Gracyn: "I made it up and I love it."

Irelyn: "Irelyn is a beautiful and unique name, My spouse wanted to name her Ireland but I convinced him Irelyn was more girly and sounds so pleasant."

If my dd would have been named Kimberley. I would have put that -ey because my name ends in ey. Also, there is a company named Kinsley. I always thought that would be a pretty name. A bit made-up gutsy for me but pretty for someone else. Boys names cannot be that creative for me.

The Nadalyne comment reads to me like an urban legend ala Lemonjello. Just as the Lemonjello myth is meant to disparage immigrant parents, this one seems to be meant to disparage the tech generation.

@ danasurfside: I really like Vivian Jacqueline.

This is a fun blog post. I've never really read the comments on individual name entries, but I think I'm going to have to start!

@Lysis - How does the Nadalyne comment disparage the tech generation? I'm sure I'm missing something there. (Also...email at 8?!)

this is why I love Laura's blog so much: she follows fairly serious posts with fun ones like this one! :)

Sooo funny. :)

These are all pretty funny/sad/funny.

I had a hard time even following the Nadalyne one. Seriously, I read it a few times before I got who said what to whom. zOMG.

TKB, yours are all excellent, too, between the short Olivia and the needy Kayla and the lack of Aevin. :)

i sat straight faced once while being introduced to an acquaintances son named Phoenix Blaze.

a separate name i have to tell of belongs to someone in my extended family, a little girl named Jubilee. this name announcement was quite surprising to my mother and me, but it definitely evokes a sense of happiness :). i want to get used to it, but since she lives in another state, her name is not a daily mention, so when I do hear it, a pang of surprise hits me.

I'm usually a traditional-retro namer (in lockstep with my generation, natch) but I love Jubilee! That's darling -- maybe because it makes me think of Queen Victoria's famous Diamond Jubilee.

This is a great post. I always chuckle when on names with alternate spelling people post "This is a stupid spelling. I wish my parents hadn't picked it."

Off-topic but my cousin had a baby girl last night and named her Adele Aurora. I think it's quite lovely :)

I don't get the Nadalyne one at all, but the others are good. Good work, Cheyanne's mom. And I love the Lydia exchange!

(I apologize for the length. I was inspired.)

Once upon a time there was lovely, sweet little girl, with horrible, evil parents. Although these ugly, disgusting parents always took her for vaccinations on time, started her college fund at birth, and worked diligently to get their daughter into the most prestigious preschools, we all know that they were actually vile, unworthy parents, because they named their darling daughter Gax.

When cute little Gax would go out strolling, her loathsome mother carefully adjusting her sweater to keep the cold at bay, and her abhorrent father explaining the myriad wonders of the lives of the insects they saw, inevitably a well-meaning woman stranger would approach and proclaim, “Oh, what a gorgeous little girl! Pray tell me, what is your name?” And our angelic heroine would flash a smile that would melt ice and respond, “My name is Gax!” And this wonderful civic-minded lady would stop at the sound of the name, blink, and run off, laughing maniacally at the name. And Gax, astutely understanding the concepts of ostracization, even at such a young age, would cry all the way home.

Poor little Gax one day approached her egregiously inept parents while they carefully examined the latest scientific reports regarding childhood nutrition. “Why did you name me Gax?” she pleaded. “Everyone thinks the name sounds bad.”

“Don’t worry, my darling,” her terrible mother replied as she charted out the levels of Vitamin B12 in Gax’s diet over time. “Everyone will love you, no matter what your name is.”

Yet dear, precocious Gax noted this was an insufficient answer. She wrote to Santa Claus every year, asking for a new name for Christmas, but every year, she only found educational toys and quality literature under the tree, never a sheaf of official name-change forms awaiting her signature.

And yet, none of this prepared her for her first day at school. Each student in turn was asked to introduce themselves. “My name is Henry!” proudly stated one boy. What a lovely, sensible name, Gax thought. “And my name is Cecelia!” added one girl. Yet another well-thought name, Gax observed. And then, it was our kind cherub’s turn, and she replied in a small voice, “My name is Gax.”

The classroom fell silent. Then, it broke out in laughter. All the little children guffawed at the absurd name. The teacher gasped for breath between chuckles as she pointed at our unlucky heroine. And in the horrendous outpouring of ridicule that innocent little Gax suffered, she ran out of the school, and ran back home, crying the entire way.

Gax did not stop at home, unwilling to wait for her cruel, uncaring parents to return from their scouting for appropriate extracurricular activities, grabbed her jacket and the first jar of food that she could reach and ran away, far away, hoping to find somewhere to escape that moniker her utterly repulsive mother and father saddled her with.

She ran far, far away to the north. It grew colder, and colder, and as night fell, she grew hungry. Much to her dismay, the one jar she had managed to abscond with was filled with nothing but smelly, sour green olives. She could not bring herself to eat a single one, nor, it turned out, even open the jar, for the lid had frozen shut in the bitter cold.

She despaired and feared what would happen to her when she found a bit of light emanating from an old tree stump. She was curious and carefully peered into the stump. Suddenly, a burst of light appeared, and right there, before her quite incredulous eyes, appeared an elf! “Hoi, salutations, and well met!” greeted the mystical creature, with a little green outfit, floppy red hat, and twinkly in his eye. “What might your name be?”

Embarrassed, our humble young girl replied, “My name is Gax.” She shrunk, ready for yet another round of ridicule.

“Gax? That’s a fine name,” the elf replied. He bowed, and added with a flourish, “My name is Dilly Salamander, at your service.”

Gax giggled lightly. “Dilly Salamander?” She stopped in consternation, worried that she might be creating the same sort of insulting aura that she had been subjected to many a time before.

Yet the elf, if it felt any jab, did not respond with less than a smile, responding, “Indeed, Dilly Salamander. It means ‘a spirit of the realm of elemental fire, with a refreshing herbal scent’!” To accent his point, he pointed at the end of his long pipe, and a flame appeared in its bowl.

“Mmmm…” Gax mouthed as she breathed in the warming, relaxing smoke from the flame. “Is that… oregano?”

Dilly smirked. “Not exactly.”

But the kind elf rushed Gax into the stump, adding, “But you look cold and hungry! Come, let me make you a fire. Is that a jar of food you have?”

“Yes,” Gax replied, dejectedly. “But it’s only a jar of yucky green olives.” She handed the jar to Dilly.

Dilly stared excitedly at the jar, caressing it like a rare treasure, as if every little fruit were a sparkling gem. “Oh my, olives! This is wonderful! Come, I must take you to my friends, we will feed you and keep you warm, and everything will be all right!”

He stamped his foot at the base of the stump, and a magical staircase descended deep into the ground. The stairway was festooned with pine garlands and blinking lights, and the sound of light work and singing rose from the depths. Dilly and Gax descended the staircase, and lo and behold, underground was a huge chamber, filled with elves, all toiling dutifully on that year’s Christmas toys.

Dilly raised the cherished jar of olives above his head and shouted, “Look what our good friend Gax has brought us!” Poor Gax cringed at the sound of her name, but all the other elves ignored the name, and stared agape at the olives. They stopped their work and ran excitedly toward Dilly, exulting, “We can have martinis!”

Dilly’s friend Sully Ethanol set to work, mixing martinis for all the elf workers. Fully Balanced and Pilly Victuals prepared Gax a delicious, wholesome meal made entirely from locally sourced organic produce, just as her foul mother always did. Everyone was relaxed and warmed by the sandalwood-scented fire in the hearth when who would arrive at an elfin workshop, but the one and only Santa Claus!

Everyone in the room expressed heartfelt felicitations, and he was quickly handed a double martini. He took a sip and marveled at the source of festive cheer, and at the nearly-empty jar of olives Gax had brought. And then his twinkling eyes turned and settled on our dear benighted heroine. “What do we have here?” Santa Claus laughed. “Why, it’s a little girl! What are you doing so far from home, little girl? Your parents must be very worried about you.”

“I ran away because everybody makes fun of my name. They tease me and laugh at me and point at me. My name is… Gax,” she sobbed.

Santa Claus gasped in surprise. There was a special place deep toward the bottom of his Naughty List, written in vulture snot and pond scum, reserved only for those most revolting of parents who give their children bad names. Once you were placed on this list, you would forever be Naughty, and receive coal and switches for the rest of your life. “What? Is this true, Trilly Dialect?”

Trilly looked up from his bank of satellite reconnaissance video feeds, from where he was carefully examining just how Naughty a particular young man and woman were getting, and replied, “Eet ees trrrue, Santa Clousa! Gax’s town hass becoom verrrry Naughty-Naughty seence Gax was borrrrrrn!”

“What, huh?” bellowed out Bully Demolish, a particularly bellicose and hirsute elf (it was generally believed he was part troll on his mother’s side). “Giving your child a bad name is one of the worst things anyone, anywhere can do, but making fun of people’s names is still very Naughty! Lemme at ‘em!” And all the elves, under the enjoyable influence of their martinis, rallied around Bully and Dilly, and pledged themselves to Gax, the sweet, caring, loving, kind precocious girl who brought them olives for their martinis.

And so Santa Claus gave the elves special dispensation to return with Gax to her hometown, and meet with everyone who had ever made her suffer on account of her name. They rolled into town on huge coal-fired, switch-operated siege engines. Bully Demolish went door-to-door with a team of kindly elfin thugs, their knuckles tattooed with proper behavioral techniques so that their quarry would be informed of how to be Nice as the words approached their eyes. Dilly Salamander gave an incredible performance with his lavender-scented incendiary grenades, leaving Gax’s school smoldering in a most refreshing manner. And no matter how well they executed their emergency plans, no matter how well-protected their emergency shelter was, Gax’s odious parents could not possibly escape the educational clutches of Trilly Dialect’s Secret Naught Police, from which they would never name anything again.

And good Santa Claus let out a jolly, “Ho ho ho!” He leaned down to look Gax in the eye, and with a festive wink, added, “You have been a wonderful girl this year! You have brought my elves olives for their martinis, and have led them in an extraordinary educational exercise against all the Naughty people in your town! I’m placing you at the tip of the top of my Nice List! And so, since you have asked for a new name every year, I hereby dub you… Olivia!” And all the elves cheered and sang and contemplated how incredibly beautifully sonorous Olivia sounds, and they all congratulated our dear heroine on her new, better name.

“Just sign here and your updated Social Security card will arrive in the mail in six to eight weeks. You will need to report this change to the custodian of your 529 savings plan!” Santa warned. Olivia, having been trained well in the importance of proper bookkeeping by her diabolic father, informed all the proper parties, and eventually graduated magna cum laude from a top-ranked university, without incurring student debt.

Olivia and Dilly remained great friends, and founded an aromatherapy candle business together. Between her MBA and canny business acumen, and his natural proclivities for R&D, they lived happily ever after.

And that, gentle readers, is why Olivia means “Bringer of Olives.” Or perhaps “Elf Army,” we aren’t really sure.

OMG Linnaeus! Ill have to read that later when I have time!

A poster on a board wants help with middle names: they've decided on fn ln: J@rek Kusp@ (koos-pa) and want a mn that flows well.
any ideas?

Linnaeus, call Samuel Jackson and see if you can get him to read your story (much as he did for "Go the F**k to Sleep"). Pitch perfect--bravo!

Loved it Linnaeus! You might enjoy the actual already published book entitled Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes. It is of a similar topic.

Elizabeth T-How about Augusto? Sebastian? or Oliver? I think it really needs to be a 3 syl name with emphasis on the 1st or 2nd syl.

that was wonderful Linnaeus!

@knp nli: Jarek Paul Kuspa

Cole: "one of my friend's name is cole. he is very smart and funny. the Spanish word col which pronounced just like the name means cabbage. so that is what i nicknamed him. he hates it but i think it suits him. LOL"

I hate to bother you all about my naming crises yet again, but I'm less than a week away from my due date and am still fretting about our lists. I'm so close to abandoning our "no more A-names" rule, but my husband isn't as convinced.

I was wondering if you thought that Ansel would be too rhyming with the last name D@chsel K3rr (pronounced to rhyme with Daxel Fir). Is the -sel at the end of the first name and the first last name too much? Also, if you met a family with three kids all named A-names, would you secretly (or not so secretly!) roll your eyes? I think I'm loving the A-names so much because they aren't allowed.

@knp - I would suggest James, George, Henry, Charles, and Marcus, off-hand. It's a striking name they've chosen and I feel like so many great names could fit well. Is there anything they are looking for beside just the sound?

some interesting names from my roster:
F@rren (male)
G3nesis (male, says he's named after the Bible)
W3nd-0rrie (says her mother was going to name her Wendy, but got the call that grandma 0rrie passed while she was in labor and so amended the name)

YAR- For me it is a little too rhyme-y , and 3 'A' names seems a little much. I do know a family though with 4 kids whose names all start with Br (Br!anna, Bryce, Brend@n, and Brooke) and their last name starts with a B as well.

@Linnaeus, hilarious! I loved it.

@YAG, I find Ansel a little too similar to the first ln, but I'm not convinced you couldn't do a third A name. I think it's more important you love the name than that you avoid a theme that will really only be an issue, if it is at all, while the kids live at home.

@knp, I love danasurfside's suggestion ^^ of Paul. That's one of my all-time favorites and it sounds great with Jarek.

This entry always makes me smile, because I have a cousin Zachary nn Zach. As a kid (and NE) it always bothered me when his name was misspelled..I'm not sure that he really cared!

From Zachary entry on Namipedia:

this is my boyfriend's name. it fits him perfectly. the one thing that bugs me though is that his parents and teachers spell it Zachary nickname ZACH but he and his sister and some friends spell it ZACK and it drives me crazy that he can't pick one. if i had to pick one for him, it would be ZACH because that's spelled like Zachary. If he wants to spell his name Zack, then his name should be spelled Zackary.

YAG-Could you remind us of the other two? If you'd rather not I understand. I don't think Ansel sounds out of flow with the LN (Axel would though). I wonder what some of the other choices you've narrowed down might be.

YAG, yes, a reminder of the other two and the short list would help. I love Ansel and I don't mind how it sounds with the last names (probably not ideal, but not bad either if it's your favorite name). I wouldn't fuss too much over 2 kids with the same initial, but when it gets to three it really does start to look like an intentional theme (even if it's not). I wouldn't have a problem with 4 kids who were A, A, X, A, but A, A, A right in a row might lead to a little internal eye-rolling. But then again, 3 cool names, regardless of how they start, would counteract the eye-rolling, so it could be a wash, and it would be a shame to ditch your very favorite name because of what some subset of the population would (incorrectly) think of your reasons for the sib set.

@ Yet Another Guest- unless the A theme bothers you personally, i say stick with it and do Ansel. however i may have missed what your other A names are or the options you are seeking. i favor ansel because of ansel adams.
Adams Dachsel Kerr? hmmm. the s on the end of adam makes it a bit interesting to me, but i digress. i love themes, not as much as the famed Duggar family. it bristles me that they spell Ginger as Jinger which looks like it should rhyme with finger. if they are so intent on J's after all, why not spell it Jinjer, at least the implied pron. would make sense. ok sorry, i rabbit trailed again. the theme i may do is C names for girls. I have already had advice against it, but my favorite names for girls begin with C.
* anyhow, perhaps you can help me, i had posted a poll on another site about Pierce James vs. Grant Jameson or Brooks James or Jameson. i put in Jameson because i felt it sounded too stunted to have Grant James, but people wrote jameson didn't flow. what are opinions on this site for those boys first names and what form of James would you do for the middle. if you don't care for the first name, we are most interested in 1 syllable first names. thanks!

danasurfside-Love Pierce Jameson with your LN. Grant Jameson is okay too. However, Brooks would not work because of the alliteration with your LN. If you do decide to ultimately go with a C theme then I might do Cecelia or Chloe for the girl and Cameron James or Christopher Jameson. Can I ask why you don't want a longer first name with your LN?

I think 3 A names would make me roll my eyes. I have 3 kids and the first 2 are C names. I deliberately didn't choose a C for the 3rd. I just couldn't take people thinking I had a theme!

I don't see anything wrong with having all names begin with the same letter as long as a name wasn't spelled creatively just to fit in. Amy, Adam, and Alice is fine, but Amy, Adam, and Alizabeth is not (like the Jinger example). Like danasurfside most of the names I like for girls happen to begin with C. If I found myself with a bunch of girls, I'd have no problem using all the C names.

So if you like A names, use them!

@ yet another guest -do you like Anders? don't know why i want to keep suggesting names with s endings for you. still don't know the other names of your children, so just going on A.

@ zr- i love one syllable names is why i don't pick longer names for the first names. also, i don't understand why James Boroughs is considered fine, but not Brooks Boroughs. the B's together i guess. perhaps i just like alliteration, never thought about it until now.

danasurfside-Yes, the alliteration bothered me. It didn't seem to flow as nicely. If you like it then great. That is also the reason I was picking longer first names. I like them better. One of my favorite names is Claire though. Some short boy names to match:
Ross
Max (or Maxwell)
Julian
Sam (or Samuel)
Ethan/Nathan
Andrew
Isaac
Luke (or Lucas)
Adam
Josh (or Joshua)
Ryan

@danasurfside - Anders is now a villain name like Osama: The fanatic killer and self-styled crusader this year in Norway is named Anders Behring Breivik.

disregard anders. Aidric, after the saint.

Does the attack in Norway really render Anders unusable? I'm not trying to downplay the atrocity of the act or the pain and suffering of the victims and their families, but if we removed from circulation names associated with all terrible circumstances we'd start narrowing our field pretty quickly.

If I met a baby today named Anders the killer Anders would not be my first thought. I'm actually not sure I'd make the connection, honestly (except, of course, now I would). Am I alone in feeling this way?

Sorry for being AWOL. No, the baby didn't arrive on the weekend, just busy trying to do last minute preparations.

My other son's names are @tticus and @vner. I'm not searching for an A-name as I've come up with a healthy list of my own (Ambrose, Ansel, Amos, Anders, Arlo; Alice, Agnes). I'm just trying to get the pulse of what people think of meeting a family with all A-names. At another site, most people thought we should name the third an A-name. I know that my impulse would be to internally roll my eyes if I met a family with all the same initial (hello, Duggars), but I also feel that they are known as a sibling unit for such a short time in their lives and it's more important to go with a name we love than anything else.

Some other names that I've been thinking about if the baby is a boy are:
Callum
Ivan
Calvin
Noel
Orson
Silas
Thane

Boy's middle name will be North. And please, if writing out the children's last name (D@chsel K3rr), please use the symbols, or just initials. It's very, very uncommon and I don't want this to be googleable. Thanks.

@Amy3 - I don't think Anders is unusable, unless you are in Norway. I'm sure the impact of that event and that name cuts much closer than for most in North America. In the media here, his last name was used to identify him rather than his first, so the association isn't nearly as strong.

Thanks, everyone!

Guest-2011: I don't expect Anders to be seen as a killer-name. Breivik, perhaps. But I bet it's all going to just fade away, like Timothy (McVeigh), or Ted (Kaczynski or Bundy). Heck, a kid could be named Lee, Harvey, or Oswald without invoking the JFK assassination.

YAG: Three A-names would be proof of a theme for me. Not a very strong theme, or one to worry about, but yes, it would be a theme.

Yet Another Guest: love the name Thane! i'm not a huge name junkie so haven't ever thought of it before, niice one! :)

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I enjoy reading the comments on Namepedia about names, everyone has a relationship with their name but it's not something you talk about a lot in every day life - esp. for someone like me who hasn't always had a love relationship with my name, it's nice to see other people who feel the same way.

Ditto the comments on Anders--unless I had some particular connection to Norway, where feeling may be different (or not, depending on how common Anders is there), I wouldn't tend to link Anders immediately with Breivik.

YAG--ooh, Orson! and Silas! Two of my faves there, so I have to cast my vote for them, although I pretty much love your whole list. As much as I adore Ansel, I think I'd personally rule it out unless it was far and away DH's and my joint favorite name. I mean, 3 A names isn't so bad, but I like the way Linnaeus put it--2 might be chance, but 3 would be "proof" (albeit faulty) of an intentional theme. I'd personally probably pick any of the names on your list over Ansel in your situation, except maybe Ivan, which to me is a little too similar/tongue-twistery with @vner.

@YAG, you've got so many great names on your list. I'm not a huge Thane fan, esp paired with North, and I agree with hyz that Ivan is too similar to @vner's name. Otherwise, you can't go wrong and I still don't think the A thing is a big deal. If people want to roll their eyes, let 'em. It's your family and none of their business.

I stopped by my son's class today and finally got to take notice of his classmates' names. Here are the ones I remember:

Enoch
Priscilla
Pershy (boy, pronounced Percy)
Savannah
Jada
Ava
Hudson
Josiah
Eric
Jabril (boy)
Ethan
Garrett
Lizet
Lizeth
Jeremy
Peter
Giselle
Aspen
Luca
Alan

A nice mix, I think! I did see one name on one of the other teacher's doors that threw me for a loop: Rickelme. I have no idea if this child is a girl or a boy. I'm very curious to find out!

allright, so i'm not the only one who doesn't think of anders in the same vein as say, adolph. anyhow, out of the name list provided by YAG, i really like Calvin, Callum and Silas. also, if you are interested in a suggestion- Zane is handsome. a little different than thane.

my daughters class has a :Devorah, Pierce, Jack, Najili, katleyn - there are many more, but those are the ones that have stuck with me so far.

Hello fellow namers, I've been MIA again. These small babies take up a lot of time!

@YAG - I would start to think that you have an A theme with 3 kids in a row with A names. I do think if you ultimately love an A name it's fine but I'd probably try to avoid it. I may have a similar problem in the future. A husband with an A name and now my daughter and half our list for boys and girls are A names. From your boy list I'll have to vote for Silas first (an absolute fave) then Orsen and Calvin. I thin Ansel is just too matchy with your last name, although I do like it as a name. From your A suggestions my favourite is Ambrose but I'm also partial Anders, Arlo and Amos.
What were your girl top picks?

Oh and I think Anders is totally usable still. Maybe not in Norway but anywhere else it's fine.

@Linnaeus, love the story!

We recently had a hospital stay with Miss Astrid and I thought I'd report back on the kids names I remember that were there when we were (age 3 weeks - 2 years):

Zoe
Amelia
Charlie
Alexander
Archy (yes spelt that way)
Clark
Lucas
Ashtyn (g)
Carmen
Lincoln
Rachel

There were triplets coming in the day I left and was dying to know there names.....