With the exciting news that Kardashian-West baby number 4 is very shortly on the way, of course, speculation is rife as to baby names that could usurp the amusing (and pretty) names of previous children, North, Saint and Chicago.

Revisiting the topic of Kardashian-West baby names, we, at Theory of Names, wondered if Kanye-Kim might instead reflect on their Irish honeymoon for inspiration and use an Irish place (or Ireland-related) name as an exotic Christian name alternative. Applying the Theory of Names methodology and principles, some of the options we came up for baby boy, number 4, were-

Kerry West

Galway West

Ulysses (the James Joyce book) West

Buncrana West

Tempo West

Antrim West

Armagh (pronounced arr-maa) West

Malone (after Molly) West

Clear (after Cape Clear) West

Dingle West

Enya (the Singer) West

Maeve (after Queen Maeve) West

Shelbourne (the Dublin hotel) West

Shamrock West

Which is your favourite? What exotic, beautiful name would you pick?

Well, well, well…

To mark the occasion of Donald Trump’s American election success, we better refresh our readers on the names of Donald J’s siblings, wives and children.  It’s obvious from a name design perspective that he/she prefers our “American Classic” variety, and unwittingly, makes good use of the Theory of Names design principles-

Donald J. (for John) Trump

Parents – Fred (a Bronx, New Yorker) and Mary (Scottish Immigrant)

Siblings – Freddy (deceased), Robert, Elizabeth, and Maryanne

Ist Wife – Ivana Zelnickova

Children by Ist Wife –

• Donald Trump Jr., married to Vanessa Hayden (children – Kai, Chloe, Donald, Tristan, Spencer)
• Ivanka Trump, married to Jared Kushner (children – Arabelle, Joseph and Theodore)
• Eric Trump, married to Lara Yunaska

2nd Wife – Marla Maples

Children by 2nd Wife –

• Tiffany Trump (22 years old)

3rd Wife – Melania Knauss

Children by 3rd Wife-

• Barron Trump (10 years old)

Quite a clan!!

 

 

We were taken with the recent name change in Award-Winning beauty salon, Edvard & Pink, in the prestigious Dundrum Town Centre shopping mall, in Southside Dublin.

In a recent interview with the Irish Times, owner and beauty therapist, Anita Murray, said, “we saw the trend for male grooming take off over recent years and our old name (“Pink Beauty Emporium”) was not a great name for male clients .  So we went for a more unisex name.”

We agree – a great business name is good for business.  Like beautiful baby names – if the name’s  memorable and attractive they like, and they say it more.

Sounds like a win-win.

Today, Wednesday 6 September, sees the UK publication of the second Agatha Christie approved Poirot book, written by best-seller author, Sophie Hannah; entitled “Closed Casket.”

What caught our attention was the wonderful name of central character, Lady Athelinda Playford, whose mansion in Clonakilty, Co Cork, attracts, presumably, an unsolved murder-mystery or two.

Clearly, Ms. Hannah has a knack for designing beautiful, kitsch-classic names, as did Ms. Christie (more on this in later posts).   The photo by the way, is SH (not LAP or AC)…

Unless its the Theory of Names e-book…

What Revolution…?

Of course, we are referring to the revolution in Surname Supremacy, one of the key ideas proposed in our forthcoming e-book on Theory of Names.  And specifically, we are referring to the outstanding community display of Tribal Surname Flags and Coats of Arms in the Eyre Square, city centre area of Galway (on the west coast of Ireland).

 

 

For those in the know, the Tribes of Galway (Treibheanna na Gaillimhe) were fourteen merchant families who dominated the political, commercial, and social life of the city of Galway between the mid-13th and late 19th centuries. They were the families of Athy, Blake, Bodkin, Browne, D’Arcy, Deane, Font, Ffrench, Joyce, Kirwan, Lynch, Martin, Morris and Skerritt. The Tribes were merchant families who prospered from trade with continental Europe and dominated Galway’s municipal government during the medieval and early modern eras.

You live and learn…

Actress Megan Fox (the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles star) clearly has a talent for unorthodox baby name creation.  It’s a key area we cover in depth in a chapter on Exotic Name Development in our forthcoming book on Theory of Names (proposed publication date, October 2016).  

According to celebrity site People, Megan and husband Brian Austin Green welcomed son Journey River Green on Thursday August 4. Journey joins big brothers Noah Shannon, three; and Bodhi Ransom, two; as well as 14-year-old Kassius, Green’s son from a previous relationship.  All in all, it’s an almost perfect example of what we call “whole family-name concept”, whereby the names of both parents and children achieve almost perfect design symmetry and musical harmony-dissonance.  In other words, the entire family names sound great (beautiful) and are memorable.  Some achievement!

We’re on a roll with this Brix Smith, Mark Smith, “The Fall” thing, as we joyfully progress through the recently published Brix Smith Start biography.  As we really like/ love the design of the plain old, straight-ahead “Mark Smith” and/ or ” Mark E.” names, we put our little grey cells to beautiful, middle name options arising from application of Theory of Names.  Here’s some of the classic/ exotic combos we came up with-

Mark Egogo Smith

Mark Earnest Smith

Mark Edgar Smith

Mark Elephant Smith

Mark Egg Smith

Mark Elephant Smith

Mark Ebenezer Smith

Mark Elijah Smith

Mark Experience Smith

Mark Easton Smith

Mark Eccleston Smith

Mark Eadwig Smith

Mark Effie Smith

Mark Erskine Smith

Mark Edwina Smith

Mark Eastman Smith

So what’s your favourite Mark E. name?  His real middle name – Edward.

Could have done better, we think.  But we would say that.