Baby Names
Mayor Bloomberg’s Daughter Just Figured Out An Excellent Answer To ‘Whose Name Does The Baby Take?’
There are several options, all good. The baby could take the father’s surname, or the mother’s surname. The baby could have a hyphenated surname. Depending on the names in question, the baby could even have one surname as a first name, and one surname as a surname. That worked well when Carol Channing married Alexander Carson and they had a son named Channing Carson. (“Carson Channing” would also have worked.) But former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg‘s daughter Emma Bloomberg recently had a daughter with her husband, Chris Frissora, and they opted to name their baby Zelda Violet Frissberg.
I love everything about that. Zelda Violet is a fantastic and very cool baby name, and I like the hybrid surname they came up with. It’s a cool way to combine both names without a hyphen, and “Frissberg” sounds like a pretty normal surname anyway.
Bloomberg and Frissora say that “Frissberg” has been their “couple name” for a while now. I think most long-term couples wind up with one of those, like Bennifer or Brangelina. (My friends always just called my partner and I “Elizanick.”) The couple name seems to have ported over pretty nicely to Zelda’s surname.
I suspect this would not work so elegantly with all surnames, but in this case it turned out pretty nice. Would you ever consider giving your baby a hybrid surname? Let know in the comments.
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