Lettice, Beach and Everest: the most popular baby names of 2014?
Nature and places set to be big baby name trends for the upcoming year
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American baby name website Nameberry, has monitored what names prospective parents in 2014 are searching for most and has found a lot of nature-inspired monikers.
The top 10 for girls includes names inspired by plants: Ivy, Hazel, Violet and Freesia. More unusual is Lettice – an English variation of Letitia that sounds suspiciously like lettuce.
Parents expecting daughters are also looking to geography for the names: Nile after the river in Egypt, Columbia from the female personification of America and Oceana that means simply ‘ocean’.
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Parents-to-be have been looking at the atlas to get inspiration for boys’ names too. Everest is inspired by the Earth’s highest mountain, and Santiago is the name of a city in Chile.
Less grandiose, is Gower – the name of a particularly beautiful peninsula in south Wales.
Staying on the seaside theme, Beach is also rising in popularity.
What do you think of this latest baby name trend?
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MadeForMums Writer - Jessica Gibb
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