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And if It's a Boy, Will It Be Lleh? - New York Times cute article for the moms/dads and moms to be/dads to be that we know.

Erh. No. This DOES NOT mean that we are/planning to/will have (or any possible permuation that you can think of) kiddies.

This is what happens when you're surfing the NYT for your morning fix of news, and clicking away from story about how some senators are hissy about how they weren't chosen to be briefed abt the CIA appointee, you see this Neveah thing: It's had a meteoric rise among the girls' names in the US from 2001.

Parents were apparently totally taken by this one Christian rocker, who went to the MTV awards with his daughter - and said this is my kid, Neveah - Heaven spelled backwards.

*roll eyes*

By the way, Neveah is 70th most popular girls' name.
Heaven is ranked 245th.

Yes. Am going to this land.

Sheesh.

But what is fun is this Interactive Graph at babynamewizard.com and the Lists of Popular Baby Names which you can search by year.
So you can search, say in 1971 when you were born, which was most happening name then; then groan in amusment about the other names...