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There were only three Kylies born in Queensland last year, five Lisas and seven Melissas. There were also less than 20 Michelles, Amandas, Nicoles, Kellys & Angelas.

By contrast, there were 13 Shilohs (thanks to Brad & Angelina) and 30 girls named Nevaeh (heaven, backwards).

image: Sydney Morning Herald

Am I the only person in the world who smiles when they think about 464 more babies living the life of Riley?

I found a list of new year baby names on about.com

I can understand Dawn (sunrise), Aurora (Dawn in Latin), Usha (Dawn in Hindi),  Renee (french for re-born), Nova (latin for new) Novella (New in french), Neville (french for new life),  Newman (old english for newcomer) Walid (Newborn in Arabic)

Not sure about Cork, or Champagne for that matter…  What’s next -Fireworks?

While I am banging on about re-arranging letters to come up with baby names (see yesterdays’s blog) I thought I would mention anagrams.

I found internet sites that list anagram baby names for twins. (I like Dean and Edna best, though Hamlet and Thelma come a close second).  I found sites that make an anagram baby name of your favourite word ( “romance” for example re-arranges to be “Cameron”). Some sites made mystic deteminations based on the fact that “Elvis” “Lives”.

I typed my name “Katherine’ into to the most advanced anagram tool/generator I found, are here are the results to choose from : her intake (that’s quite a lot!), neat hiker ( I don’t hike and am not neat!) take her in (to your hearts, of course!). I like the third best.

 My concluding thought?  many babes= baby names

Palandromic baby names are nothing new. Both Ava and Hannah are currently in our top 10 for girls, which ever way you look at them! (then there’s Anna, Elle and Bob to mention a few more!)

But I stumbled upon an article about pairs of palindromic baby names for twins…

It’s also possible to create new palindromes by flipping traditional names.  I was amazed to read that the name Semaj (James spelled backwards) has ranked in the U.S. top 1,000 for 7 out of the last 8 years.

(Online scrabble tile generator at Caption IT)