Name quotes #113: Oscar, Mackenzie, Bailey
It’s time for another batch of name quotes! From a recent Daily Mirror article about schoolteachers Lainey Clarke and Ben Hubbard, who live in Buckinghamshire with their newborn…plus two spirits named...
View ArticleName quotes #114: Aubrey, Stamford, Kyuss
Here’s a batch of quotes for the final month of 2022! From an article about Dutch soccer player Denzel Dumfries, who helped the Netherlands knock the U.S. out of the World Cup tournament over the...
View ArticleName quotes #115: Keyden, Yizhar, Herbert
To kick off the new year, let’s check out a new batch of name quotes! First, the story behind Edson — the birth name of late soccer legend Pelé — from the book Why Soccer Matters (2015): When Dondinho...
View ArticleName quotes #116: Troy, Rowdy, Kendrick
From a recent Anaheim Ducks video-tweet in which former football player Troy Aikman addressed his namesake, hockey player Troy Terry (b. 1997): How cool are we to have the name Troy, first of all. Now...
View ArticleName quotes #117: Carroll, Sydney, Tosca
Time for the latest batch of name quotes! From a recent Daily Mail article about an Englishman named Pele Johnson (who was born in September of 1970 — not long after the 1970 World Cup took place in...
View ArticleName quotes #118: Meeno, Ronaldo, Crusoe
April is here, so it’s time for another batch of name quotes! From a 2011 interview with former child actor Meeno Peluce: My parents split the country when I was conceived. They traveled across Europe...
View ArticleName quotes #119: Ivan, Eva, Kelly
“Ivan Ivan Ivan” (typo) Welcome to May! Here’s this month’s batch of name-related quotes. From a 2022 article in Sporting News about young Czech hockey player Ivan Ivan: Ivan Ivan, a Czechia forward...
View ArticleName quotes #120: Abba, Barbara, Charisma
Here’s the latest batch of name-related quotes… In a 2013 interview with OK! magazine, actress Charisma Carpenter was asked whether or not she was named after an Avon fragrance: That is absolutely...
View ArticleName quotes #121: Doran, Dax, Rex
Ready for more name quotes? Here’s the latest batch… From a recent essay by Stanford student Doran Goldman: My parents got the name “Doran” from a big book of baby names with storks carrying babies...
View ArticleName quotes #122: Fingal, Cecil, Madison
Greetings everyone! Here’s this month’s quote post… From a 2017 article about the off-Broadway play They Promised Her the Moon (which tells the story of pilot Geraldyn “Jerrie” Cobb, the first...
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