Mike Myers’ recent choice of the name Spike for his infant son got me to thinking. Did other former SNL cast members make equally offbeat, out-of-the-box choices? Saturday Night Live is at this point a certifiable institution. The show has now been around for 36 years, and over its long run has featured many of [...]

Old Man Names are the new Old Lady Names. They’re the next frontier of vintage names, we mean. Old lady names – from Beatrice to Violet, Florence to Eleanor – have been mostly cool and rarely crusty for several years now. As with other fashionable categories – Old Testament names for boys, say, or Irish [...]

Soap star Eden Riegel is in the trenches of new motherhood – and loving it! The actress, 30, gave birth to her first child, Jack Oscar Miller, on May 21. And although she’s leaving “The Young and the Restless” “somewhat unexpectedly,” the new mom is enjoying a “nice break” with her sweet son. The first-time [...]

There are few things more thrilling in life than having your first baby. But newbie baby namers are prone to making some mistakes that more experienced name choosers are able to avoid. If you’re choosing a baby name for the first time, don’t make one of these seven common mistakes: 1. Believing that the names [...]

Here’s an idea: Why not make your child an award winner from the get-go, and give him or her a name with the bonus point of a ‘best of’ association? We’re all familiar with Oscar and Tony and Emmy, but there are lots of other award names that aren’t as well known, most representing a [...]

During a home visit with a social worker, in her second trimester of pregnancy, Kalia Yang stares at a chart that shows how many packs of cigarettes an unborn baby is exposed to if the mother smokes: Sixty-seven packs – or 1,350 cigarettes – if she smokes five cigarettes a day in the course of [...]