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[darabelle.livejournal.com]

Fashion designer Stella McCartney has given birth to a daughter, Bailey Linda Olwyn Willis. The baby, born on Dec. 8 in London, weighed 7 lbs., 14 oz. This is the second child for McCartney, 35, and her husband of three years, former magazine publisher Alasdhair Willis, 36. They have one son, Miller, who turns 2 on Feb. 25.

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[serendipitous13.livejournal.com]

I think it's really sweet that she used Linda for a middle name.

[twinklieetoes.livejournal.com]

awww i love Bailey... not sure about Owlyn though lol

[smileygoldfish.livejournal.com]

I like Bailey, but a heard a mother call her about 12 year old daughter that the other day to get her attention and it just didn't sound good to me. Like it wa forien name for an older girl

[museofmyself.livejournal.com]

I love her son's name, Miller. But Bailey? Ick. Congrats to her anyway! :-P

[xanya.livejournal.com]

I don't really like the name Bailey, but I'm happy for her because, well, I love all Beatle children. She's always seemed like a good sort, as well. Love that she used Linda as the middle name!

[heure-actuelle.livejournal.com]

i prefer Bailey for a boy. but, Linda is my name and i like that she did it after her mom. so i can dig Bailey Linda.

[cluckydude.livejournal.com]

Aren't all names cultural?

::gagging along:: Bailey is a dog's name. Olwyn I like, but I have never heard before.

[ewaeva.livejournal.com]

I don't consider trashy names to be cultural unless there is a culture of trashy people I have never heard of.

LOL!!! I love it.

[lacuna.livejournal.com]

Olwyn is a Welsh name. I've known a couple of Olwyns, though they've tended to be middle-aged, and I think it's really pretty.

[elsh.livejournal.com]

LOL at Irish or Icelandic or Dutch...those aren't remotely related for sounds in languages or names! XD

[elemmennope.livejournal.com]

At first I was reading Willis as part of the given name, not the surname. I was having trouble deciding if this was girl or boy. Bailey, Olwyn, and Willis all seemed masculine to me, but Linda feminine. Olwyn just makes me think of Owen.

Not a fan of Bailey at all, girl or boy. It seems like a very clunky unhip name for a fashion designer to choose. Oh well, congrats to her.

[purple-gaze.livejournal.com]

I can't stand Bailey because it means ""bailiff" and I don't like job names and because I associate it with the alcoholic drink. Ugh.

I think Linda is a touching tribute, and it's balanced to use it as a middle name so the kid has their own first (if only that wasn't Bailey!)
I love Linda's Spanish meaning of "beauty".

I love Olwyn as it's the name of a dear friend of mine although she spells it Olwynne which appears more feminine to me,
though apparently -wen is the correct Welsh feminine suffix and -wyn is Irish. Also the legend behind it sounds lovely: http://www.behindthename.com/php/view.php?name=olwen

Miller is nice. As a surname. Again I don't get the job names trend, especially as a sib set.
I'd rather call my kids something that means more than a job title lol.

[krosp.livejournal.com]

Yay, someone else who hates occupation names!

[elsh.livejournal.com]

Bailey as a name for a girl is sort of a guilty pleasure of mine. However, if it really means Bailiff....yuck. That kinda changes that for me. Not a terrible name, I suppose.

[hitzpink.livejournal.com]

I was just thinking about Bailey this morning. I hate it, especially on a girl. It somehow manages to sound both harsh and infantile at the same time. It's just so ugly. =/

[mountain-nest.livejournal.com]

Miller Willis??

[sotypical42483.livejournal.com]

Bailey is by far one of my LEAST favorite girls names EVER. It sounds like a dogs name and it just sounds so HARSH. I cannot for the life of me imagine a grown woman named BAILEY. Gag!!!! Awful! I can barely even picture it on a little girl. I hate it so so so much. I hope she goes by Linda.

[elemmennope.livejournal.com]

As pointed out on another message board I visit, this child's initials are...

BLOW