WORLD RELIGION
MOST POPULAR BABY NAMES OF 2007
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SPORTS NICKNAMES
200
'Sunnis say he named no successor; Shi'ites say he picked his son-in-law'
Muhammad
200
'Girls' No. 1:
Like a Dickinson,
a Post or
a Litella'
Emily
200
'Proverbially, to work hard is to "keep your nose to" this'
grindstone
200
'"Upon such sacrifices, my Cordelia, the gods themselves throw incense"'
King Lear
200
'The Baseball Hall of Fame's
Iron Horse'
(Lou) Gehrig
400
'Though Kali, a goddess of this religion, is fearsome & fierce, she's worshipped in Bengal as the Supreme Mother'
Hinduism
400
'Boys' No. 2:
Collins,
Kidd,
"Row The Boat Ashore"'
Michael
400
'According to the nursery rhyme, if you were born on a Tuesday, you're full of it'
grace
400
'"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet"'
Juliet
400
'The NFL's
Pacman'
(Adam) Jones
600
'The Druze, who permit no conversion or intermarriage, live mainly in Syria & this neighboring Mideast country'
Lebanon
600
'Girls' No. 7:
de Havilland,
Newton-John
(I really can't think of another Newton-John, can you?)'
Olivia
600
'One of the 7 deadly sins, it's from the Latin for "to swallow"'
gluttony
600
'"Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more"'
Brutus
600
'Retired NBAer
The Glide'
(Clyde "The Glide") Drexler
800
'From the Spanish for "way of the saints", it came with the Yoruba to Cuba'
Santeria
800
'Boys' No. 4:
Reynolds,
Logan,
Tree National Park'
Joshua
800
'A period of pregnancy, or a time for the development of an idea'
gestation
800
'"The play's the thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king"'
Hamlet
800
'The Ice Man
of 1970s tennis'
(Bjorn) Borg
1000
'As you might expect, this influential Christian mystical thinker was born in Sweden, in 1688'
(Emanuel) Swedenborg
1000
'Boys' No. 7:
Burgess,
Eden,
Wayne
(he of the "Mad" variety)'
Anthony
1000
'It's the London borough famous for a royal observatory'
Greenwich
1000
'"The Thane of Fife had a wife; where is she now? What, will these hands ne'er be clean?"'
Lady Macbeth
1000
'The NBA's
Agent Zero,
aka Hibachi,
aka The Black President'
Gilbert Arenas
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