Names to help your choose 🙂
Notable New Zealanders 2018
Boys
Kristine Bartlett : Fought for pay equity for aged care workers and won!
Marlon Williams: Best solo artist and album of the year
Luke Willis Thompson: Won 30,000 photography prize
Girls
Thomasin Harcourt: Actress in “leave no trace.”
Pip Adam: NZ top literary prize for “The new animals.”
Zoi Sadowski- Synnott- Bronze medal snowboarding winter Olympics.
(credit: https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/379291/the-kiwis-who-made-a-big-impression-in-2018)
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Honor lives lost in 2018
Boys
Stephen Hawking: Greatest mysteries of the cosmos
Milos Forman: director “one flew over the cuckoos nest.”
Otis Rush: Chicago blues gutarist
Stan Lee or Stanlee: Comic book dynamo
William Goldman: Screen writer, adapted fantasy novel “the princess bride.”
Girls
Goldie (see above)
Margot Kidder: Supermans Lois Lane
Aretha Franklin: Queen of soul
Audrey Geisel: Dr Seuss widow
Kofi Annan: Former UN Secretary general
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Celebrity inspiration 2018
Boys
Ennis Howard
Santiago Enrique
Beckett Richard
Francisco
Miles Theodore
Sebastian Piers
Ariel
Forrest Bradley
Girls
Geo Grace
Vida Amber Betty
Monroe Sky
Minnie Theodora
Greta Lilia
Story Annabelle
Marvel Jane
Lulu Gray
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Looking at NZ top 100, 2017
Boys
Theodore (fastest rising boy name)
Everett, Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Benedict/Bennett
Heathcliff, Edwin, Alvin & Floyd
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Harvey
Grady, Emery, Wesley, Remy, Dewey,
Darcy, Rudy, Huxley, Rhodri & Wiley.
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Bodhi (NEW #77)
Daijo, Indra, Jihi, Jivan, Koan,
Loka, Zenji, Kiran, Ved & Akash.
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Oscar
Roscoe, Dexter, Tucker, Baxter, Samson,
Monty, Alfie, Murphy, Rufus & Gus.
Girls
Addison (re-enters #57)
Avery, Arden, Devon, Emerson,
Emery, Easton, Monroe & Murphy.
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Sadie (+36)
Edie, Maidie, Bridie or Birdie,
Heidi & Zadie.
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Luna
Vesper, Venus, Elara, Lyra,
Leda, Astra & Alya.
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Phoebe & Frankie
Xanthe, Penelope, Seraphina,
Ramona, Romilly, Polly
& Phaedra.
New Zealand Baby Names 