Trivia: 03/18/12 What's In A Name?

TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE

QUOTE: "The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name."

HINT: (1858-1919), 26th President of the United States, a leader of the Republican Party and founder of the short-lived Progressive ("Bull Moose") Party of 1912.

RANDOM TIDBITS

The name Madison was virtually unheard of as a first name for girls until Daryl Hannah's character used it in the 1984 movie Splash. In the film, she adopted the name after seeing a sign for Madison Avenue in New York.

According to Social Security Administration records, 1,022 girls born in America between 2000 and 2005 were given the not-so-unique name of Unique.

Because boxer George Foreman never knew his father, he made the decision to name all five of his sons George Edward Foreman. The heavyweight champ wanted them to always remember the patriarch of their family.

After it was announced that Gwyneth Paltrow had named her daughter Apple, Peaches Geldof (daughter of Sir Bob) wrote an open letter to London's Daily Telegraph pleading with celebrities to stop giving their offspring "ridiculous" names. Peaches, who has sisters Fifi, Heavenly, and Pixie, revealed that her "weird" name has always haunted her.

Four children in the United States are named Espn after the cable sports channel. In at least three of those cases, the mother admitted she'd let the father choose the name.

On a 2000 episode of MTV's Cribs, Sonny Sandoval revealed that his daughter's name was Nevaeh ("heaven" spelled backwards). After word spread across the Internet, the name began to gain popularity, and by 2003, it was number 150 on the list of most popular names for newborn girls in the United States.

QUOTE: "The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name."

ANSWER: Theodore Roosevelt.