baby names
Via wthr
A high school baseball coach promised his team that if they won 14 games in a row, they could name his baby. They were not doing well this season so he must have thought it was a long shot. Well, they did it and they want to name him Benjamin Smalls, after two characters from The Sandlot.
This video was made just before they won that 14th game:
It seems like mom still has some veto power but they'll be pretty disappointed if she chooses something else now. In fact, apparently David Evans, the writer of The Sandlot dropped by to wish them well.
The Social Security list of the top 1000 baby names of 2014 has a few nerdy surprises. Sure we have your regular old Noah and Emma taking the top spots (boring), but in the nerdy, media-obsessed America of today there has to be some fan-girly namesakes in there.
Here are ten geeky names that are gaining ground in popularity.
Via Time
The parenting site BabyCenter.com gathered data from more than 340,000 parents in the world, it said, though the findings are unofficial.
Along with Lux, Instagram filter names Ludwig, Amaro, Reyes, Hudson and Kelvin have also increased in popularity for boys, while Juno, Valencia and Willow jumped in popularity for girls.
BabyCenter.com, the pregnancy and parenting site also said names of planets and characters on the hit TV show Empire were trending this year. The name Royalty also jumped 88% in popularity for girls.
Here is BabyCenter.com's top 10 most popular names for both genders this year:
