Name of the Day: Paris
February 17
Paris Whitney Hilton was born on February 17, 1981 in NYC. The great-granddaughter of Conrad Hilton, — founder of Hilton Hotels — Paris is considered one of the original celebrities in the genre “famous for being famous”.
Paris was especially influential in the world of fashion trends throughout the early 2000s, known her for lavish lifestyle and love of the color pink.
Unsurprisingly, Hilton put a glamorous touch on this sophisticated French place name. Paris peaked as a girl’s name in 2004 at #157, at the height of Paris’s fame, and singer Michael Jackson named his daughter Paris in 1998.
Today Paris has paved the way for a number of newly fashionable place names to enter the name lexicon, including Paris’s own children’s names London and Phoenix — but Paris itself has fallen to #488.
Paris interestingly originated as a boy’s name — the name of a prominent male character in Greek mythology. Paris infamously ignited the Trojan War when he ran away with Helen, the wife of the king of Sparta. Paris is also the name of a male character in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.
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Name of the Day: Cole
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