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    Best Baby Names from Cemetery Gravestones

    It's official! Weird Hollywood baby names like Apple and Pilot Inspektor are out, and old-fashioned names like Pearl and Gloria are in. Jack Osbourne and his fiance, Lisa Stelly, chose the first, and Maggie Gyllenhaal and husband Peter Sarsgaard chose the second.

    And now there seems to be a trend towards giving girls a traditional boy name. Jessica Simpson just named her newborn daughter Maxwell Drew. And Levi Johnson, father of Sarah Palin's grandchild, is going to name his soon-to-be-born baby girl after a gun: Beretta. Okay, guns aren't male or female, really. But they're kinda mannish to me.

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    The world has gone mad. However, if you like the idea of giving your baby girl a boy's name, there's a place you can get some great ideas.

    Your local cemetery.

    Hey, don't knock it. If you like old-fashioned baby names, you can't get much more vintage than those culled from a bunch of centuries-old headstones. Plus, the names are kind of spooky, too. Take a look at these 30 names we found at the graveyard.

    These are all traditional male names, but might they might just work for your little bundle of femaleness too. I mean, if you're into that kind of thing.

    1. Augustus

    2. Demas

    3. Washington

    4. DeRobigne

    5. Teunis

    6. Orison

    7. Horace

    8. Churchill

    9. Alford

    10. Simeon

    11. Lot

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    12. DeWitt

    13. Asher

    14. Abram

    15. Fletcher

    16. Anson

    17. Mellen

    18. Elias

    19. Gamaliel

    20. Brockholst

    21. Caleb

    22. Chauncey

    23. Ormsby

    24. Napoleon

    25. Ole

    26. Silas

    27. Fitz

    28. Cleveland

    29. Othnial

    30. Casper

    Would you give any of these to a boy -- or a girl? Have you ever gotten baby name ideas from a graveyard?


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    Written by Kiri Blakeley on CafeMom's blog, The Stir.

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