We often get this question about our daughter’s name ” Vivian.  Huh. Is she named after a relative?” (Read: Your daughter has an old lady name, you must’ve named her in honor of a great-aunt).  And once I got “Vivian? Did you name her after Julia Roberts character in Pretty Woman?  NO! we did not name her after the hooker with a heart of gold.

I love the name Vivian cause it means “full of life”. Brings to mind someone who’s vibrant, vivacious, your best friend. We call her Viv, Vivvers, the Vivinator, Vivi Lou (cause she’s Vivian Louise - two old lady names!) And it’s lyrical. I just keep thinking about roll call in grade school. Her name makes our hard to pronounce last name a little easier to pronounce when said together. Vivian Krhin (Cur-Hin emphasis on the h)

So, today I walked into work and a colleague said, “You’ve started a trend, Brad and Angelina just named one of their twins Vivian.”  No, I had not heard that, as you see I live under a rock  am so out of touch with pop culture with two little ones.  So I had to google it, of course. Dangit! They did. They named their girl twin Vivienne.  Spelled differently but still…now I expect future. “Oh, did you name her after Brad and Angelina’s baby?”  Of course this  probably most irks me because I still stand firmly on Team Aniston.  (I know, I know, get over it…)

So now there is a spotlight on the name and a resurgence will cause her to be one of eleven Vivian/enne’s in class. Here’s what babynamewizard.com already said about the name.

Let’s start with the most surprising of all the Jolie-Pitt baby names: Vivienne.  Surprising because it’s perfectly traditional.  Vivienne is simply the French feminine form of Vivian, modestly common in the U.S. during Vivan’s heyday in the 1910’s-20’s.  In fact, many more Viviennes have been born in the U.S. than in France over the past century.  Vivian is already a comeback name and the Spanish/Italian Viviana is hot too, so Vivienne simply fits in comfortably.

Sigh. That’s fine, all baby names are fair game. It’s a beautiful name and maybe the world needs more best friends named Viv.

Anyone else have a baby name that skyrocketed ? Or did something happen to give your baby’s name a stigma?  I know parents of a Katrina and parents of a Monica that were bummed.

Congrats to our fellow Emmy nominee, WCCO’s Jason DeRusha, and his wife Alyssa who welcomed baby boy Sam yesterday, just hours after a party-packed Saturday evening. According to Jason’s DeBlog, big brother Seth was at the hospital waving and blowing kisses at the new baby.

Well, Jason did say that if Cribsheet beat him for the regional Emmy for Online Personality this year, he’d have to do more baby blogging to win next year…Quick work, Jason ;)!

Meanwhile, Kay and I were ogling the dresses at the Real (i.e. the Primetime) Emmys Sunday night. Kay favors the dusky pink drapy number worn by Kate Walsh and I think I’d go for the midnight blue halterneck gown on Rashida Jones. Drat….where are those personal trainers?? They should have been here weeks ago..

We haven’t had any celeb baby news on Cribsheet in a long while. Since I got all caught up in the US Open on Father’s Day, I just have to share Tiger’s belated Father’s Day present that came the next day. She more than makes up for losing by one stroke. (Do you think Buick just dropped him as a spokesperson because his daughter’s middle name is Alexis instead of Abuick? sorry folks……couldn’t resist….)

And btw: where have I been? Raising a toddler or something? Obviously not reading the tabloids or watching E! I didn’t even know Julia Roberts was pregnant. Either that or she’s been very private. Here’s a bit more on her 3rd child.

My Wednesday nights have been feeling a little empty since the Project Runway finale. It was the perfect non-guilty pleasure escape to watch after baby had gone to bed. So I was happy to hear the updates that the stylish pregnant bumps we’d been watching are now out in the world. The prolific contestant, Laura Bennett, just had baby #6 and Heidi Klum, had #3 on Thanksgiving. Now another Runway celeb is preggers - read more here.

On a slightly related note, I wonder what Laura, 43, and Heidi, 33, would have to say about this article in today’s Star Tribune. Meghan Daum’s piece for the LA Times is about mothers under 25 having a better chance of raising centurians.