Fruit For Thought: Apple, Cherry, Fig & Pumpkin — Names In Forbidden Fruits Film

🍏Apple, 🍒Cherry, 🌳Fig and 🎃Pumpkin are not only names of fruits — but the names of four friends (and ✨witches🧙‍♀️🧙🏼‍♀️🧙🏽‍♀️🧙🏻‍♀️) in new 🎥film Forbidden Fruits: 

      

The names of these characters as fruits are very clever 🧠 and really fun. 🤗 I like some more than others 🤷🏾‍♀️ but as a whole, I love 🥰 the idea 💡 of their names matching in a sense. 👌🏾  

These fruity, cutesy names aren't however just made up names for a movie — they're all 😮 very real first names used for 👶baby 💗girls in real life:

📛🍏Apple: "When people talk about unique baby names, Apple is often one of the first examples they mention. Apple made international headlines when Gwyneth Paltrow chose this wholesome fruit name for her daughter. Many have called it ridiculous, but we have to admit, we find it appealing enough to list as one of our top cute baby names," says 📛Nameberry🍒

📛🍒Cherry: "Sweet Cherry remains remarkably underused - at its peak in 1948. The unsavory slang meaning no doubt goes a long way towards explaining its fall from grace," says 📛Nameberry🍒

📛🌳Fig: "Fig was the unlikely name of a beautiful character in Curtis Sittenfeld's Man of My Dreams. Better bets: Plum or even Apple. Still, you might consider Fig as an unusual nickname for any more formal F-starting name, from Frances to Fiona," says 📛Nameberry🍒

📛🎃Pumpkin: "A common name for orange-colored cats. Fun fact: the word pumpkin is derived from the Greek pepōn, translating to "large melon,"" says 📛Nameberry🍒 

💭If I could personally ⏪re-name📛 the characters (I'd keep 📛🍒Cherry ✔ & 📛🎃Pumpkin ✔) but for the rest — I'd pick the names of my 👍🏾👍🏾favorite fruits: 📛🍑Peach and 📛🍊Tangerine (or 📛Nectarine). 😍

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛🍏Apple: 👍/👎 OR 💚💚💚💚💚/10 

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛🍒Cherry: 👍 OR   / 10  

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛🌳Fig: 👎 OR 🤎/10 

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛🎃Pumpkin: 👍 OR 🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡/10 

Women Disclose Male Names They Find Unattractive & Attractive

The Zen Parent compiled an 😏intriguing 📄list entitled: 'The 15 Most Unattractive  Male Names 📛According to Women & The 15 Most Attractive' 

TZP explains the origin of their list as, "Out of the thousands of male names floating out there, we've turned to the internet to discover 15 of the most unattractive and attractive male names according to women. From the way it sounds, to the way it feels, to the generations it's associated with, there are a lot of factors that women seem to consider when debating whether a name is attractive or not." 

Adding, "While you may have your own set of favored and unfavored male names, let's see how many of them made it on this list. How many do you agree with?" 

Without further ado...

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📃THE 15 MOST 😬UNATTRACTIVE MALE 📛NAMES:

 (with ☔IRN📛 rating: 👍🏾/👎🏾)

1. 📛Gus 👎🏾

2. 📛Darold 👍🏾

3. 📛Frank 👍🏾

4. 📛Arnold 👎🏾/👍🏾

5. 📛Alfred 👍🏾

6. 📛Bob 👎🏾

7. 📛Chad 👍🏾

8. 📛Bart 👍🏾

9. 📛Howard 👍🏾

10. 📛Mitch 👍🏾

11. 📛Greg 👍🏾

12. 📛Byron 👍🏾

13. 📛Hank 👎🏾/👍🏾

14. 📛Burt 👎🏾/👍🏾

15. 📛Fred 👎🏾/👍🏾

📃THE 15 MOST 😍ATTRACTIVE MALE 📛NAMES:

 (with ☔IRN📛 rating: 👍🏾/👎🏾)

1. 📛Luke 👍🏾

2. 📛Colin 👎🏾/👍🏾

3. 📛Theo 👎🏾/👍🏾

4. 📛Daniel👍🏾

5. 📛Oliver 👍🏾

6. 📛James 👍🏾

7. 📛Eric 👍🏾

8. 📛Jacob 👍🏾

9. 📛Jonathon 👍🏾

10. 📛Gabriel 👍🏾

11. 📛Charlie  👎🏾/👍🏾

12. 📛Marco 👎🏾/👍🏾

13. 📛Nathan 👎🏾/👍🏾

14. 📛Noah 👍🏾

15. 📛Christian 👍🏾

☔IRN📛 will present a list of its own most attractive and unattractive male names in the near future — so stay tuned. 👀

Madd About Maxx

I'm not a sports fan but recent 📰news about NFL 🏈football player 📛Maxx Crosby made me do a double 👀👀 take — due to the two '✖✖'s in his name. 

How did Crosby gain an extra 'x' in Maxx? A bio tells the origin of, "Crosby's first name is indicative of just how big he was at birth. He weighed in at 11 pounds, 9 ounces at birth. His mom had already decided on a name for him. He was to be Max. And with his XXL birth size, she made him a Maxx."

That is such a great 📛name 📖story. 🤗 I was never aware that there were Maxs with two 'xx's in their names until now. 🤯 📛Maxx is a variation of 📛Max. Max derives from "the formal" 📛Maximilian" — which comes from 📛Maximus: a "Roman family name that was derived from Latin maximus 'greatest.'" Max's rank is pretty great at #175 in the US Top 1000. 📛Nameberry🍒 warns: Max has long been among the most popular dog names (Max is #4 for boy💙 dogs🐶)." Max also "coincides with the informal word max, short for maximum." 

I love 😍 the name 📛Maxx. Now, 📛Max the original is a nice enough, cool 😎 little name (I've always liked the longer 📛Maximilian / 📛Maximillian / 📛Maximillion 💰 however) but — the two '✖✖'s are definitely what make Maxx more magnanimous and yes — greater. 🏅 

⭐FAMOUS & 📝NOTEWORTHY 📛MAXXS:

📛Maxx Hamilton (💙son of Olympic skater Scott Hamilton)

📛Maxx Williams 🏈 (former NFL football player)

📛Maxx Danziger 🎶🥁 (drummer in band Set It Off)

📛Maxx Morando 🎶🥁 (drummer in band Liily & 💍fiancé of 🎤singer Miley Cyrus)

📛Marco "Maxx Paradox" Ciro Pastore 🎤 (singer)

♀️Female Version of 📛MAXX:

📛Maxxine 

💭I didn't know a Maxxine with two ✖✖'s existed! 😮 But I love 😍 it! Maxxine a bit more extra & risque than the original, sophisticated Maxine — which makes it all the more appealing to me. 👌🏾 

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛Maxx: 👍 OR 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙/10

Brian Austin Green Reveals His Real Name

⏪90s 📺90210's 💓heartthrob David Silver aka Brian Austin Green — recently shared that Brian Austin Green isn't his real name. 😮

I used to be a huge 90210 fan 🙋🏾‍♀️ so this 📛name 📰news really piqued my interest. 👀 🧐What could his real name be then? Something so shockingly different? 😨 Or just the ↪first↩ and ↪middle↩ name swap of being: Austin Brian Green perhaps? 🤔

Turns out it's much more simpler. Brian Austin Green's real name is just: 📛Brian Green.

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He was not given a middle name by his parents as a boy. 😕 

He gave himself a middle name as a man. 🙂

📛Austin. The name 📛Austin means, "great, magnificent" in Latin and is the shortened form of the name 📛Augustine (derived from the name 📛Augustus). Austin is at #107 in popularity 📈 on the US Top 1000. Austin is also a surname.📛 As well, 📍Austin is a city in Texas.

On the podcast 🎙Pod Meets World🌎 he is featured on, he tells his name story: “My mom had a whole name planned for me when she was pregnant and I had really broad shoulders as a baby, so she had a real hard time in labor. And my dad—who smoked a lot of pot at this point in life—while my mom was in the middle of labor, he came forward, and he was like, ‘Can we name him Brian?’” Joking that his mom’s reaction was, “Name him, whatever the f--- you want. Just get him out of me,” Brian continues, “That was literally the only name he came up with. He came up with no middle name, no anything. So, it was just Brian Green.”

⏩Fast forward to Brian as a young man and entering his acting career. He explains, “All of a sudden, SAG is going, ‘Yeah, there's another Brian Green in the union so you have to come up with a middle name,’” Brian recalled, later adding, “I don't think you can be in the union with the same name as somebody else. You have to have some sort of thing that differentiates so they can keep track of checks when they come in. They can monitor, they can do all the stuff that they, as a union, do."

Brian remarks on his hunt for a middle 📛 name, "Brian Green is not a very easy name to come up with a middle name for, where the whole thing flows very well. We almost named me Brian Peter Green after my mom's dad, but then my initials would have been P, so it was Brian P. Green, and they’re like, 'that’s probably not a good start.' That'll make or break a career so, we went through a bunch of names, and we ended up going through the map and Austin fit."

📛Austin certainly was the perfect fit. 👌🏾 I can't imagine Brian Peter Green 😬 as Brian Austin Green's name instead  —  it does not have that certain something that Austin has. 🤷🏾‍♀️ 📛Austin 🌟 is the name that makes Brian's entire name stand out. 

I like the name 📛Austin a lot — it's an attractive, rugged yet smooth name — and Brian Green certainly made the right choice ✅  in choosing Austin as his middle 📛 name. 👏🏾

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛Austin: 👍 OR 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙/10 

NAME OF THE DAY: Patrick

🎉Happy 🍀St. Patrick's Day! I will obviously be diving into the name in which the good time 🍻 yet holy ✝ holiday is named after: 📛🍀Patrick 

😇Saint 🍀Patrick's real name is thought to be: 📛Maewyn Succat. "🍀St. Patrick, who lived during the fifth century, is the patron saint of Ireland and its national apostle. Born in Roman Britain, he was kidnapped and brought to Ireland as a slave at age 16. He later escaped but returned to Ireland and is credited with spreading Christianity among its people," History.com explains. The name 🍀Patrick was "derived from his time in Ireland." 

🍀Patrick is called 🍀Pádraig in Irish and is from the Latin name 🍀Patricius, meaning "nobleman." Behind the Name says, "In England and elsewhere in Europe during the Middle Ages 🍀Patrick was used in honour of the saint. However, it was not generally given in Ireland before the 17th century because it was considered too sacred for everyday use. It has since become very common there." 

It certainly has: 🍀Patrick ranks at #16 in Ireland  for most popular boy's names in 2024. In the United States (📍California & 📍Minnesota is where the most 🍀Patricks can most be found), 🍀Patrick is at #221 in popularity. 📛Nameberry🍒 asks, "Why has 🍀Patrick slipped from its high of Number 30 in the 1960s?" And answers, "Partly to blame might be its androgynous nicknames, Pat and Patsy. But with more and more parents calling their sons by their full names, this becomes less of an issue."

📛NB🍒 believes naming a boy 🍀Patrick after St. 🍀Patrick, "would give a son with this name a widely -- and raucously -- celebrated holiday," as it is "long tied to a hyper-Irish image." 📛NB🍒 also feels that that the name 🍀Patrick "is enjoying something of a renaissance as a stylish classic, as it has long been considered in England. 🍀Patrick has escaped overuse in recent decades."

I have no problem with the name 📛🍀Patrick — I like it. 👌🏾 I agree with 📛Nameberry🍒 that it's a classic name. I don't agree with calling it "stylish" 🤷🏾‍♀️ but it certainly is an old-fashioned name — serious in one sense — yet a fun name all around because of all the inspiring Irish history of 🍀St. Patrick's Day behind it. 

📌Traditional Irish 📛names for boys and girls going 'extinct' revealed as popularity dwindles

📌Ireland's most popular 📛names for babies born in 2025 revealed

📌Trending 📛Names in Ireland (Presented by 📛Nameberry🍒) 

⭐FAMOUS & 📝NOTEWORTHY 📛🍀PATRICKS:

📛🍀Patrick Swayze 🕺🎥 (late actor)

📛🍀Patrick Stewart ❌🗯🎥 (actor)

📛🍀Patrick Schwarzenegger 🎥 (actor and son of actor Arnold Schwarzenegger)

📛🍀Patrick Dempsey 🎥 (actor)

📛🍀Patrick Wilson 🎥 (actor)

📛🍀Patrick J. Adams 📺🎥 (actor)

📛🍀Patrick Ewing 🏀 (former NBA basketball player)

📛🍀Patrick Mahomes 🏈 (NFL football player)

📛🍀Patrick J. "P.J." Kennedy  (former U.S. politician) 

📛🍀Patrick Buchanan  (former U.S. Presidential advisor)

📛🍀Patrick Henry  (American Statesman & Revolutionary War Patriot) 

📛🍀Patrick Christys 📰📺 (journalist)

📛🍀Patrick Weninger 🕵️‍♀️ (former CIA officer)

📛🍀Patrick Tsang 🎙️/💼 (keynote speaker & chairman)

📛🍀Patrick Ta 💄 (makeup artist)

📛🍀Patrick Teahan 🧠/📺 (therapist & YouTuber)

📛🍀Patrick Maren 📗 (author)

📛🍀Patrick Long 📗 (character in YA The Alice book series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor)

📛🍀Patrick Jane 🧠📺 (t.v. show main character on The Mentalist)

📛🍀Patrick Logan 🏡📺 (t.v. show character on Desperate Housewives) 

♀️Female Version of 📛🍀PATRICK:

📛Patricia

💭I like the female version of 🍀Patrick just fine. I do like it more when another name is attached e.g. Patricia Ann. It gives it an even more feminine flair. 

  

📌STATS ON THE NAME 📛🍀Patrick:

 https://www.mynamestats.com/First-Names/P/PA/PATRICK/index.html

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛🍀Patrick: 👍 OR 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚/10

NAME OF THE DAY: Emerald

St. 🍀Patrick's Day is right around the corner — the infectiously fun, green 💚 themed holiday where on 📅March 17, "everyone is Irish" — originating obviously in Ireland "where St. 🍀Patrick’s Day has been a religious feast day since the 17th century and a public holiday since 1903."

Ireland is nicknamed "The Emerald Isle" because of the country's greenery — initially referring to Ireland as such in the celebrated poem 📃'When Erin First Rose' by William Drennan.

So to get into the spirit of St. Paddy's Day approaching 🎉 I will talk about the lush name: 📛💚Emerald

💚"Emerald is of Persian origin meaning "green,"" 📛Nameberry🍒 explains. 💚"Emerald is the intriguing color and jewel name of the deep green stone treasured as far back as ancient Egypt — it's supposed to open one's heart to wisdom and to love and be good for strengthening relationships — which could make for an interesting, unusual name, particularly with the popularity of so many Em-starting names. 💚Emerald is the birthstone of May, making it extra appropriate for a girl born in that month." 

👶Baby 💙boys have also been named 💚Emerald. I don't like 💚Emerald however as a 💙boy's name unless perhaps it's the middle 📛name.

📛NB🍒 reports that 💚Emerald ranks #707 in the US Top 1000. 📍California & 📍District of Columbia are where the most 💚Emeralds live in the United States. 

A variant of 💚Emerald is 📛Esmeralda (means 💚"emerald" in Spanish).

I really like the name 📛💚Emerald — it's very beautiful (whether chosen for a 🌈color or 💎jewel name — or to honor one's Irish heritage) and has a certain, sparkling✨ charm to it.

⭐FAMOUS & 📝NOTEWORTHY 📛💚EMERALDS:

📛💚Emerald Fennell ✍ /🎥/ 🎭 (screenwriter / director / actress)

📛Caroline "Caro 💚Emerald" Esmeralda van der Leeuw 🎤 (singer)

📛💚Emerald Zellers 👸 (former Miss Arizona Teen USA)

📛💚Emerald Ignacio aka "DriftGirl"  / 👠 (car racer / model)

📛💚Emerald aka Green Esmeraude   (anime character in Sailor Moon R)

📛💚Emerald Sustrai   (cartoon character in web series RWBY)

📛💚Emerald Empress   (collection of several supervillains in DC Comics)

📛💚Emerald Star⭐ 📗 (title of the third novel in Hetty Feather series by Jacqueline Wilson)

📌STATS ON THE NAME 📛💚Emerald:

https://www.mynamestats.com/First-Names/E/EM/EMERALD/index.html

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛💚Emerald: 👍 OR 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚/10