I like the name Prudence. In fact, Clovis' second-in-command is named Prudence.

I keep trying to convince friends who are expecting babies that Clovis is a charming name, and no one listens to me.

I seriously doubt that Temperance Baker was named for that kind of temperance -- although her parents might have been aiming for chastity. It was a much more general moderation word for centuries before it came to be applied to food and drink, and even then was about controlling your appetites. It didn't get the association with teetotalism until the rise of Temperance Societies in the 19th century.

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(even a Juan Carlos!)

That's my cousin.

Seriously. It is.

A name I just love but don't think I could use for my pasty white future child is Cesar. Love it so!

Pru has such a nice, comfy sound to it.

One of my voice characters is named Prudence Portnoy. She's the groupie girlfriend of Nigel Vapid, the keyboard player for the Cynical Pigdogs. She goes by Pru, but he calls her 'Puddy.'

I should say that in real life, I know a woman named Truly. she is as lovely as the name suggests.

I love "True", too, which is why it's the prefix for my LJ and Flickr accounts.

Whenever I think of "Truly" I always imagine "Truly Scrumptious" from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang which was always one of my favorite films as a kid.

Still one of my favorite films, actually.

Toot Sweet!

I love Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

I was so bummed when I finally read the Ian Fleming book and realized it was nothing like the movie.

I'm vaguely irritated by the "boys names ending in N" trend that seems to have cropped up - our goal was never to give D a name that our special little snowflake would have all to himself, but we'd decided years ago that our first child would be named Dylan, and now we look like sheep. We're not sheep! Just ahead of the curve!

Yeah, we're planning on avoiding any name that's in the current top 5 or anything like that. We want him to feel just a little special when he starts school. And yet, still we resist the temptation to use the Palin baby name generator. Something in the range #11 - #100 would do fine. (Currently my name is #3 in Victoria - it's having quite a resurgence - and my middle name is #2. Oh, BTW Cashmere, Olivia is currently the most popular girl's name in Victoria.)

Matilda is still nowhere to be seen in the top 1000

It's in the top 20 in Victoria. You're not out of sync, just misplaced.

Victoria has lovely taste in girls' names. (Victoria also is a lovely girl-name.)

I'm surprised there are so many boys there named Tea.