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Birth announcement: Molly Róisín!

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Today is the Feast of the Most Holy Name of Mary — what a wonderful feast day for all of us here! And in honor of Our Lady, it’s perfectly fitting that this is the birth announcement I have for today:

Back in June I posted a “not-too-difficult Irish name needed” consultation for Jenny from Irish by Marriage — the baby has arrived! Jenny writes,

“Molly Róisín is a week old today. We are so thrilled with her name. Thank you so much for your help! It is the perfect balance of everything we wanted.”

Molly Róisín!! Ahhh!! It’s such a beautiful beautiful gorgeous Irish Marian name!! For those of you not familiar, Róisín is Irish for “little Rose” and the one Róisín I’ve known said her name ro-SHEEN so I assume that’s the universal pronunciation. Lovely!! One of my very favorites of the Irishy Irish names.

Congratulations to Jenny and her husband and Molly’s big sibs Caitlin and Sean, and happy birthday Baby Molly!!

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Molly Róisín

Birth announcement: Benedict Xavier!

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You guys! Birth announcements are rolling in! Wooo!!! Tonight I’m happy to announce the birth of a little guy whose mama I did a private consultation for a while ago, and his amazingly handsome name is … Benedict Xavier!

He joins a big brother, Finnian nicked Finn, and a big sister, Genevieve nicked Gigi, and he’s already being called Benny, and I’m just dying over the sweetness of this sib set!!

Congratulations to the whole family, and happy birthday Baby Benedict!!

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Benedict Xavier

Birth announcement: Olivia Rose!

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Can it be? THREE birth announcements in two days?? YES!!!

Jennie, whose consultation I posted last month, has given birth to her baby girl, and her beautiful name is … Olivia Rose!

Jennie writes,

“Just wanted to let you know our newest addition arrived last Friday morning. Miss Olivia Rose has been a perfect addition to our family and we are all thrilled.

Her name (and we hope her disposition will follow suit) means peace and beauty. Thank you for your suggestion of the name Olivia. It wasn’t on our original list of names, but we both ultimately fell in love with it and we think it fits in perfectly with our other children’s names.

One of your readers noted the connection of the name Olivia with Our Lady of the Olives. I had never heard of that particular Marian devotion before, and I am so grateful she pointed it out. Once I read about it, I was sold on the name Olivia.

We chose Rose as her middle name in honor of Our Lady, the “mystical Rose.” … We pray our little Olivia Rose always stays close to Our Lady and and that in turn, she keeps her closer to her Son.

Thanks again for your help.”

How beautiful is the name Olivia Rose?? And packed with such meaning!! I’m so so so excited that Laura’s comment, connecting Olivia to Our Lady of Olives (who I’d not known of before), helped Jennie and her husband be “sold on the name Olivia”!! This blog would be nothing without all of you!!

Congratulations to Jennie and Matthew and big sibs Hannah, Abigail, and Lucas, and happy birthday Baby Olivia!!

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Birth announcement: Edith Therese!

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Can a day get much better for name lovers than TWO birth announcements?? Today’s a happy day!! A mama I did a semi-private consultation for (semi-private because I did post one of her questions here to get your feedback) emailed me to let me know her baby has arrived — a girl! And she has been given the amazingly beautiful name of … Edith Therese!!

Mom writes:

“Pleased to announce that Edith Therese was born on 8/19 at 6 lb 11 oz and 21 in long. Had she been a boy we would have gone with Robert Boethius (nn Bo). We are so in love!!”

Ahhh I’m just dying over her name!! It’s so sweet!! And even though this birth announcement is all about Edith, I can’t help but swooning over their chosen boy name too. This Mama and Papa know how to NAME!! Congratulations to them both and happy birthday Baby Edith!!

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Edith Therese

Birth announcement: Adrian Leo!

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Remember the five-syllable firstname-middlename(s) combo consultation of a couple of weeks ago? The Little Mister has made his debut! And his amazingly handsome name is … Adrian Leo!!

His mama writes:

“It took us almost 24 hours to decide but we both absolutely love it now and are so glad we took our time and went with something not on the original list! Lol. The three we were down to were Aidric Sylvester, Adrian Leo and Liam Sylvester … Adrian is more traditional and familiar like our other boys, yet not so obscure that most people have heard it. And the way our Henry says it is precious! I love it more each time I see it written or typed!

In addition, it’s a family name.  My grandma’s 2 baby brothers were Adrian… the first died very young, the second had a family but died of a heart attack when in his 60s … Grandma was so touched when I called to tell her the name! And grandpa (Sylvester Leo) was hilarious and said he was so glad I didn’t use Sylvester. Said it’s an awful name and he has way too many syllables. He’s so cute!

Sorry for the book. Ha! Thanks again so much for your awesome input! Couldn’t imagine thinking through things without your help!! 🙂 🙂 “

How amazingly perfect is his name! What with all the family connection, and even getting Grandpa Sylvester in there via his middle name Leo. And Adrian Leo is SO saintly and papal and I canNOT stop swooning about it!

Great great job Mom and Dad! Congratulations to the whole family, and happy birthday Baby Adrian!!

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Adrian Leo

Famous Catholics: Campos-Duffy

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I’ve been meaning to update this post since I discovered little Campos-Duffy #7’s name back in the spring, and kept forgetting to do so … but today’s your lucky day!! 🙂 She’s the beautifully named … [drumroll] … Margarita Pilar!

I’m very interested that it’s the third time Sean and Rachel have used Pilar as a middle name, and the second time they’ve used Margarita (first as a middle, now as a first). Either way, it’s beautiful and saintly and heavy hitting! She’s one blessed (and beautiful!) little girl! (And other than Rachel’s Twitter, I think it’s very possible you’re hearing it here first, because even her Wiki page only notes the birth of a daughter, it doesn’t list her name.)

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Ok, so I don’t know a whole heckuva lot about Rachel Campos-Duffy and her husband Sean. I do know:
— They met on MTV’s Road Rules All Stars in 1998
— Sean’s a congressman (Wisconsin’s seventh district)
— He’s one of eleven children
— They gave their children super duper Catholic names:

Evita Pilar
Xavier Jack
Lucia-Belen
John-Paul
Paloma Pilar
MariaVictoria Margarita

They reportedly recently welcomed baby #7 (a girl!), but I haven’t been able to find out the new baby’s name. Anyone?

Read more:
Rachel Campos-Duffy Expecting Baby No. 7
Wisconsin congressman welcomes baby number 7
Rep. Sean Duffy and Rachael Campos-Duffy welcome seventh child into the world

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Birth announcement: Nathaniel John!

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I received another wonderful birth announcement from a private-consult mama! She writes,

“Just a quick note to let you know that our 5th baby has arrived and it was a boy! I’m horrible at guessing the gender lol. We had decided on Lydia Therese if it was a girl, but as he is a boy we went with Nathaniel John as planned.”

I love love love the combo Nathaniel John, so handsome!! He joins his very well named older sibs:

Tahlia Belinda
Angus Jack
Isaac Lachlan
Bethany Mary

Such great taste!! Congratulations to the whole family, and happy birthday Baby Nathaniel!!

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Nathaniel John

Birth announcement: Margaret Clare!

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A mama I’d done a private consultation for a couple months ago emailed me to let me know her little girl has arrived! She writes,

“We’re happy to share that on August 6th we welcomed our happy, healthy and beautiful daughter Margaret Clare into the world!

We really debated between naming her Margaret and Isabel, but after 26 hours of labor that ended in a c-section, we thought maybe the patron saint of childbirth and pregnant women (St. Margaret the Virgin) would be fitting. We also debated on the spelling of Clare but eventually settled on the spelling like St. Clare of Assisi.”

What a beautiful, meaningful name!! Congratulations to the proud parents, and happy birthday Baby Margaret!!

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Margaret Clare

Birth announcement: Uebbing Baby Quattro!

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I don’t know what I did with my life before Instagram (despite my recent bellyaching about it — I’ve come around) and Twitter and Facebook — how does one stay abreast of important happenings without them?? Like: birth announcements! Social media (here and here and here) has informed me that Jenny Uebbing has had her baby — a boy! Luke Maximilian! On the feast of St. Maximilian Kolbe!

If you remember from my consultation for her, Luke was on her longtime boy list but she’d said,

“meh. I’m fading on this one. But I’ve loved the name since I first saw Star Wars at age 12, and what child doesn’t want that kind of honor associated with his moniker? Plus, the Gospel of St. Luke is my fav“

and I’d said,

“Luke is hard to beat! The Gospel and the Skywalker are of course amazing reference points (reasons why it’s one of my faves too!), and it’s such a good match as a brother to Joseph and John Paul“

and I’m soooo delighted that she and her hubs decided to go with it, and I love love love it paired with Maximilian, and ON HIS FEAST! Can it get more perfect!

And a million thanks to Baby Luke for coming today, because I’d wanted to post about St. Max, but I did the Holy Name of Jesus post earlier (momentarily forgetting what today’s feast is) but now I have a great reason to post for his feast, and birth announcements are the very best posts of all.

Congratulations to Jenny and the whole Uebbing family, and happy happy birthday Luke!!

Birth announcement: Mary Jane!

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Do you all know the blog Catholic All Year? Kendra’s the blogger and she’s got a lot of good stuff to say, but I didn’t even realize until recently that she was nearly due with her eighth baby (I didn’t even know she’d had a seventh!) so clearly I haven’t been as faithful a reader as I thought I was.

I did a little digging and found some posts that discuss her kids’ names (they’re awesome — totally retro. Like Betty and Anita retro): the first six, number seven, and number eight — Mary Jane, who was born twelve days ago, and WOW what a birth story. (I first found out the good news on Kendra’s Instagram, where she’s graciously been posting daily baby pics because whooooo doesn’t love that?!)

Congratulations to the Tierney Family, and happy birthday Baby Mary Jane!!