This, according to Laura Wattenberg, author of the babynamewizard blog and the baby name guidebook of the same name, has been the Year Of The Un-Name. The year when the coolest names weren’t names at all, but Words-As-Names.
So why 2010? Gwyneth Paltrow named her baby Apple six years ago.
Weirdest Celebrity Baby Names
It’s not that unconventional personal branding is so new. What’s different now is that people don’t even think it’s weird anymore. Pop stars used to have single names (Cher, Madonna) because it was unusual. Now they do it because it’s something people associate with pop stars.
This year’s top name isn’t a pop star’s per se. It’s attached to a member of that relatively new breed of people who are famous for being famous: Reality TV stars. Yes, The 2010 Baby Name Wizard Name of the Year is…
The Situation.
Weirdest Celebrity Baby Names
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