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"Nameberry.com editors Pamela Satran and Linda Rosenkrantz -- who penned the books Baby Name Bible and Beyond Ava &amp;amp; Aiden-- are blogging for UsMagazine.com about why celebs choose the names they do, and what they mean.Amanda Peet&amp;apos;s newborn baby girl Molly June&amp;apos;s name is somewhat more conventional and in step with current styles than that of her big sister, Frances -- called Frankie -- Pen.\r\nBLOGS: Read more &amp;quot;What&amp;apos;s in a Name?&amp;quot; columns&amp;#xA0;Molly (born April 20 in NYC), which started life as a short form of Mary in the Middle Ages, peaked in the U.S. in 1991 at No. 74 on the annual Social Security administration list.&amp;#xA0; It&amp;apos;s been flirting with the No. 100 mark ever since, never zooming up to megapopularity but not dropping from sight either.&amp;#xA0; Likeable and down-to-earth, mild yet saucy, Molly makes a safe but hardly attention-grabbing choice.\r\nPHOTOS: Meet Hollywood&amp;apos;s new moms!&amp;#xA0;Big sister Frances Pen&amp;apos;s name is a bit more off the beaten track.&amp;#xA0; While Frances has the same gently old-fashioned quality as Molly, it&amp;apos;s definitely quirkier, a name that&amp;apos;s been sliding down the popularity ladder for several decades now and that&amp;apos;s in danger of slipping off the Top 1000 radar completely.&amp;#xA0;Frances is more ladylike -- some might say stuffy -- than Molly, though nickname Frankie has a similar friendly feel.&amp;#xA0; &amp;#xA0;Frances&amp;apos;s middle name, Pen, is definitely unusual, a nod both to dad David Benioff&amp;apos;s writing profession and Peet&amp;apos;s mother Penny&amp;apos;s first name.&amp;#xA0;New baby Molly&amp;apos;s middle name June, on the other hand, is a once-dated choice (think &amp;apos;50s supermom June Cleaver) that&amp;apos;s finding new favor, especially in middle place, with hip parents.&amp;#xA0; In fact, June is taking over as the middle name du jour from Rose and Grace.&amp;#xA0;Molly, originally spelled Mally and sometimes varied to Mollie, has roots in both the Irish and the Jewish cultures.&amp;#xA0; Molly Bloom was the wife of Leopold Bloom, the Irish Jewish hero of James Joyce&amp;apos;s Ulysses.&amp;#xA0; Molly Goldberg was an early (Jewish) television personality, while the Molly Maguires are an Irish secret society of workingmen and Molly Malone is an Irish song.&amp;#xA0; In the U.S., Good Golly, Miss Molly was a Little Richard hit and Molly Ringwald a celebrity bearer of the name.\r\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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