{"id":14237,"date":"2017-02-24T15:32:29","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T15:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14237"},"modified":"2017-02-24T15:35:49","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T15:35:49","slug":"baby-names-inspired-by-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/baby-names-inspired-by-places\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Names Inspired by Places"},"content":{"rendered":"

Baby names that are inspired by places are hotter than Ibiza!<\/h2>\r\nGet inspired by this article written by our friends at BabyNames and learn everything about names inspired by places.\u00a0<\/strong>\r\n\r\nAnd as with all trends, they are popular with celebrities. Alicia<\/a> Keys\u2019 son is called Egyp<\/strong>t, Chris<\/a> Hemsworth\u2019s daughter is India\u00a0<\/strong>and Ashlee<\/a> Simpson has a little Bronx<\/strong>.\r\n\r\nCo-creator of \u2018Nameberry\u2019, Linda<\/a> Rosenkrantz, says that using place names for babies is not new. \u201cFlorence<\/a> <\/strong>Nightingale was named for the city of her birth in 1820 \u2013 but it is certainly more prevalent now than ever,\u201d she said in an interview with Fitpregnancy.com<\/a>.\r\n\r\nWhile naming your baby India<\/a> <\/strong>or Paris<\/a><\/strong> isn\u2019t a particularly revolutionary idea, we can trace this spike in popularity back to the 90s, where a wave of celebs named their children city, state or country names.\r\n\r\nBono named his daughter, born in 1991, Memphis<\/strong>. Alec<\/a> Baldwin and Kim<\/a> Basinger\u2019s daughter, Ireland<\/strong>, was born in 1995. And of course you can\u2019t forget Brooklyn<\/a><\/strong> Beckham, the eldest child of the Beckham family, born in 1999.\r\n\r\n\u201cSome parents just like the exotic, attractive images evoked by names like Paris<\/strong>, Sienna<\/a> <\/strong>and India<\/strong>, while others pick a name with more personal meaning \u2013 the location of their courtship, marriage proposal or ceremony, where their child was conceived,\u201d Rosenkrantz continued. \u00a0\u201cMost people who pick the popular Brooklyn, Trenton, Camden, Georgia<\/a>, Austin<\/a><\/strong>, probably feel no particular connection to those places.\u201d\r\n\r\nWatch the video below for a list of the best places to name your baby after!\r\n\r\n