1. Girls’ name: Isabella.
This name can be shortened to Bella, which is Kirsten Stewart's very famous "Twilight" character.
"Twilight" may have inspired another top baby name with Jacob, which is Taylor Lautner's werewolf character who fights for Bella's heart.
When it comes to the trendiest baby names for 2012 a look to the world of celebrities will be as far as you'll need to go to find that perfect moniker. From Marilyn Monroe to Pippa Middleton celebrity baby names are popping up everywhere and the influence of global celebrity-dom can be heard in nurseries across the country.
For soon-to-be parents Chris and Beth Maki of Vancouver, choosing a name for their baby, who will be born next month, was one of the hardest decisions they had to make. Though the pair finally chose a traditional name that had family significance, they admit a few celebrity names did creep into their early brainstorming sessions.
“When we first started thinking of names for our baby there were a couple that we liked that definitely came from some well-known celebs,” said Beth Maki. “I've always liked the name Kate which was great because of the new Duchess, but as her fame grew we decided that we didn't want our daughter to have an overly popular name.”
Though most names came from Tinseltown, Maki said that a few homegrown names also ranked up there among their favourites including the name of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's wife.
“I really like the name Laureen,” said Maki. “It's just different enough to make it uncommon, but my husband vetoed it because he's an NDP supporter. He just couldn't get over the politics of the name.”
According to Pamela Redmond Satran, creator of the popular online baby name site Nameberry.com, celebrity-inspired names are making a huge comeback this year fuelled in large part by big-name movies and even bigger celebrity births.
“Celebrities have a huge baby-name influence and it's getting bigger all the time,” said Satran. “Celebrities influence via their own names, such as Angelina and Jude; their children's names, such as Pax (Brangelina) and Violet (Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck); and even the characters they play — Atticus (Finch), Gatsby (the Great), and Twilight characters from Bella and Edward to Jacob and Jasper are all rising in popularity.”
Another popular trend for 2012, and one that celebs like Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin made popular back in 2004 when they named their first daughter Apple, is choosing names derived from nature, plants and even animals.
“We see people reaching further for individual or so-called unique names, either by spelling a familiar name in a new way or turning a word or a place or nature or animal name into a first name,” noted Satran. “Bay, Maple, Bear, True, West or North - these are all fair game as names today.”
Vowel driven names are also making an unexpected surge, though Satran suggests staying away from a few overly used examples of this trend.
“Names that start with vowels continue to be big, with lots of new A-starting names coming up like Asher, Asa, Arianna, Adelaide and Abraham,” she said. “The only A names that aren't fashionable are those we heard too much of in the recent past, such as Anne, Andrea and Allen.”
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