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Sesame Street Baby Names

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Amanda Barden
on November 4, 2009
in Baby Name Suggestions & Lists and Celebrity Baby Names
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Happy 40th Anniversary Sesame Street! I’m sure many of you have happy memories of watching Sesame Street when you were growing up and now you’re passing the tradition on to your children. Maybe there’s an even bigger Sesame Street tradition you can pass on to your children…in the form of a name.

 

Here’s a look at Sesame Street character names (and the names some of the actresses, actors and puppeteers). While names like BIG BIRD, JUGHEAD and MR. NOODLE won’t work, there are plenty of interesting options that are worth considering. Enjoy!

 

 

FEMALE CHARACTER NAMES

ABBY Cadabby

ALICE Braithwaite Goodyshoes

ALICE Snuffleupagus

BETTY LOU

BUFFY

CELINA

DEENA Monster

DOROTHY

Dr. GINA Jefferson

GABRIELLA “GABI” Rodriguez

Granny FANNY Nesselrode

INGRID

JANE Tuesday

KAMI

LEELA

LEXINE “LEXI”

LILLIAN “LILLY”

LINDA “LYNNE”

LULU “LOUISE”

MARCIA Middlewell

MARGARITA

MARIA Rodriguez

MOLLY the mail lady

OLIVIA Robinson

PEARL Monster

PHOEBE

POLLY Darton

Prairie DAWN

Rodeo ROSIE

ROSITA

RUBY

RUTHIE

TARAH

WANDA Falbo

ZOE

 

 

MALE CHARACTER NAMES

ALOYSIUS Snuffleupagus

Bad BART

BARKLEY

BERT

BRUNO the Trashman

DAVIE

ELMO

ERNIE

GORDON Robinson

GROVER

HARVEY Kneeslapper

HERBERT Birdsfoot

HIROSHI

HUMPHREY

JAMAL

JOEY

KERMIT the  Frog

KOTY

LEONARD “LEO” the Wolf

LUIS “LOU” Rodriguez

MARCO

MEL “MELVIN”

MIGUEL

MILES Robinson

Mr. HAROLD Hooper

MURRAY Monster

OSCAR the Grouch

OSVALDO the Grouch

PLACIDO Flamingo

RAFAEL

RALPH

ROBIN

SAM the Robot

SAVION

SIMON the Soundman

SOLOMON Grundy

STEVIE

SULLY

TOM “THOMAS”

VINCENT “VIN” Twice

WALLY

WATSON

WILLY

WOLFGANG the Seal

 

 

FEMALE ACTRESS/PUPPETEER NAMES

ALAINA Reed

ANNETTE Claud

BUFFY Sainte-Marie

CAMILLE Bonora

DESIREE Casado

FRAN Brill

IRRA Verbitsky

KYLA Taub

LEXINE Bondoc

LORETTA Long

SONIA Manzano

STEPHANIE D’Abruzzo

TARA Schaeffer

 

 

MALE ACTOR/PUPPETEER NAMES

BRIAN Meuhl

CASEY Kasem

CHRISTOPHER Cerf

EMILIO Delgado

GABRIEL Velez

JIM Henson

JOEY Mazzarino

JOU JOU Papailler

KERMIT Love

KEVIN Clash

KHALID Moultrie

MICHAEL EARL Davis

RICHARD Hunt

ROSCOE Orman

SAVION Glover

TOBY Tobson

WILL Lee

 

SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_characters_in_Sesame_Street

 

 

I actually didn’t watch Sesame Street when I was growing up, so maybe some of you readers can let me know what your favorite characters (and names!) are. Post a comment and let me know!

 

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Bram Stoker’s Guide to Baby Naming (just in time for Halloween!)

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Amanda Barden
on October 31, 2009
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I remember being in high school and not being able to put Dracula down. I took it everywhere I went and stayed up late until I’d finished it…and was very sad when I came to the end. You know that feeling when a book is so good that you just don’t want it to be over? That’s how Dracula was for me.

 

Halloween seems like a good time to dust off this classic vampire tale and get some name inspiration.

 

Dracula debuted in 1897. So those of you interested in turn-of-the-century names should enjoy this list. It should also appeal to people interested in Irish names because Bram Stoker was born and raised in Dublin.

 

Here you go:

 

FEMALE CHARACTER NAMES

LUCY Westenra

WILHELMINA “MINA” (Murray) Harker

 

 

MALE CHARACTER NAMES

ABRAHAM Van Helsing

ARTHUR Holmwood

JOHN Seward

JONATHAN Harker

PETER Hawkins

QUINCEY Morris

 

 

LUCY and MINA would be quite stylish names today. Even WILHELMINA has an antique charm to it. It makes sense that these names sound interesting to our ears right now because names take a few generations to sound fresh again after a period of popularity. You can see a pretty steady cycle for the name LUCY here in the US. In 1897 it was the 61st most popular name for girls. It dropped in popularity a little bit each year until the 1970s where it hit a low of 588. Then LUCY started climbing again. In 2008, it was at 112. I suspect it will continue growing in popularity over the next few years and then start to decline again.

 

WILHELMINA was most popular in the US in the 1880s — peaking at 215 in 1884. It actually hasn’t been in the Top 1000 since 1954. Talk about a name ready for a comeback! I remember a Days of Our Lives storyline in the 1990s with a character named WILHELMINA played by Lisa Rinna. The character went by the name Billie. There was also a storyline about a cosmetics company called Princess Wilhelmina. WILHELMINA is a bit of a mouthful, but there are a lot of cute nickname potential here — Billie, Mina, Minnie, Willa, Willie.

 

MINA was popular in the 1880s and stayed on the charts until 1944. Then it dropped off entirely until 2002. I can see MINA continuing to increase in popularity because it is short and sweet, has a very feminine ring to it and has that nickname quality that is popular with some parents.

 

The boys’ names are fairly traditional. None of them would sound especially out of place on a playground today. Nor would they have sounded out of place 50 or 100 years ago. QUINCEY is the most unusual of the names (more commonly spelled “Quincy” here in the US). It has never been a “popular” name, but it has also never been so uncommon that it would surprise someone to hear it.

 

What do you think of these names? Any fellow Dracula fans out there? Write and let me know.

 

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♥  Amanda

 

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Baby Name Inspiration from the 2009 Fall TV Lineup

Published
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Amanda Barden
on October 27, 2009
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Television is a great for source of interesting names. Writers are a creative bunch and when they want a character to stand out, sometimes they use a name to help their cause — think CHANDLER from Friends. Sometimes the names are so interesting that they cross over and become popular with parents — think SAWYER from Lost.

 

Now that the Fall 2009 TV season is in full swing, it’s a good time to check out some of the character names from the new shows. There just might be some great names for parents-to-be on the hunt for something new and interesting. Here’s the list I put together of some of the memorable character names I found. And since some of the actor’s names were just as interesting, I added those to the list, too.

 

Let me know what you think. If I missed one of your favorites, add it to the list.  

 

 

ACCIDENTALLY ON PURPOSE

 

Characters

BILLIE

 

DAVIS

FRANKLIN

ROLAND

 

Cast

CAITLIN Keats

LENNON Parham

OLYMPIA Lettry

 

POOCH Hall

 

 

THE BEAUTIFUL LIFE

 

Characters

MARISSA

RAINA

SONJA

VIVIENNE

 

COLE

ISAAC

 

Cast

ELLE Macpherson

 

CORBIN Bleu

NICO Tortorella

 

 

COMMUNITY

 

Characters

ANNIE

BRITTA

 

ABED

PIERCE

 

Cast

GILLIAN Jacobs

YVETTE Nicole Brown

 

CHEVY Chase

 

 

COUGAR TOWN

 

Characters

ELLIE

JULES

 

GRAYSON

TRAVIS

 

Cast

BUSY Philipps

CHRISTA Miller

 

IAN Gomez

 

 

EASTWICK

 

Characters

BUN

IVANKA

PENNY

ROXIE

 

GUS

RJ

 

Cast

IVANA Milicevic

MIA Hays

 

CHRISTIAN Alexander

JOHANN Urb

TORSTEN Voges

 

 

FLASHFORWARD

 

Characters

JANIS

ZOEY

 

BRYCE

CHARLIE

DEMETRI

LLOYD

SIMON

STANFORD

 

Cast

GABRIELLE Union

GENEVIEVE Cortese

LENNON Wynn

PEYTON List

 

DOMINIC Monaghan

LEE Thompson Young

 

 

GLEE

 

Characters

MERCEDES

QUINN

SANTANA

 

ARTIE

FINN

NOAH

 

Cast

JESSALYN Gilsig

JAYMA Mays

 

DIJON Talton

IQBAL Theba

 

 

THE GOOD WIFE

 

Characters

ALICIA

KALINDA

 

CARY

 

Cast

JULIANNA Margulies

MAKENZIE Vega

 

ARCHIE Panjabi

GRAHAM Phillips

 

 

HANK

 

Characters

TILLY

 

GRADY

SPENCER

 

Cast

JORDAN Hinson

 

KELSEY Grammer

 

 

MELROSE PLACE

 

Characters

ELLA

RILEY

VIOLET

 

AUGGIE

CALEB

 

Cast

ASHLEE Simpson-Wentz

 

COLIN Egglesfield

SHAUN Sipos

 

 

MERCY

 

Characters

CHLOE

SONIA

VERONICA

 

ANGEL

VALENTINO

 

Cast

HELENE Taylor

MARGO Martindale

TAYLOR Schilling

 

DIEGO Klattenhoff

PATCH Darragh

 

 

THE MIDDLE

 

Characters

EDIE

FRANKIE

GINNY

 

AXL

BRICK

 

Cast

EDEN Sher

FRANCES Bay

 

ATTICUS Shaffer

 

 

SGU STARGATE UNIVERSE

 

Characters

CAMILE

TAMARA

 

DALE

ELI

EVERETT

 

Cast

ALAINA Huffman

ELYSE Levesque

MING-NA

 

JAMIL Walker Smith

 

 

THREE RIVERS

 

Characters

GOEL

MIRANDA

SOPHIA

 

KUOL

MICK

RYAN

 

Cast

JUSTINA Machado

ALFRE Woodard

PUJA Mohindra

DEVIKA Parikh

 

MAC Brandt

 

 

TRAUMA

 

Characters

MARISA

SELA

 

CAMERON

REUBEN

 

Cast

AIMEE Garcia

ANASTASIA Griffith

RUBY Lopez

 

JAMEY Sheridan

SCOTTIE Thompson

 

 

V

 

Characters

ANNA

ERICA

 

DALE

JACK

TYLER

 

Cast

LOURDES Benedicto

MORENA Baccarin

 

LOGAN Huffman

MORRIS Chestnut

SCOTT Wolf

 

 

THE VAMPIRE DIARIES

 

Characters

ELENA

 

DAMON

LOGAN

STEFAN

 

Cast

KATERINA Graham

KAYLA Ewell

MARGUERITE MacIntyre

NINA Dobrev

 

 

WHITE COLLAR

 

Characters

JULIANA

JUNE

 

CURTIS

NEAL

 

Cast

DIAHANN Carroll

 

EVANS Forlidas

JABARI Gray

 

 

Do any of these names inspire you? Or do you try to stay away from names that might rise in popularity? Post a comment and let everyone know!

 

Subscribe to the RSS feed so you don’t miss any of my future baby name posts.

 

Follow me on TWITTER to get up-to-the-minute celebrity baby name news, interesting names I come across and so much more! I’m @babynameauthor!

 

♥  Amanda

 

If you have baby name questions for me, email me at amanda@amandabarden.com.

Your question might appear in a future edition of Ask Amanda.

 

 

 

For more information on baby names and their meanings check out

BABY NAMES MADE EASY: THE COMPLETE REVERSE-DICTIONARY OF BABY NAMES