1. Naming their daughter Michelina Raye
Wright was not a snap decision for proud parents
Raymond Wright and Jodi Martelli.
They wanted something that combined both of
their heritages — Italian and Irish — for the baby
girl born Monday night. After spending months
perusing baby-name books for something unique,
the Toms River couple finally picked a winner.
“We wanted a little boy nickname for a girl …
we like the girlie names with the boy nicknames,”
Martelli, 37, said. “We figured Mickey is like a lit-
tle Irish nickname, and a little boy nickname and
Michelina makes it a pretty Italian name.”
Thecouple’snamechoiceisinkeepingwiththe
newest trend in baby names, experts and parents
say. Instead of naming children after celebrities,
the new trend is for names that are traditional or
meaningful to the family.
Perhaps nowhere is that more evident than in
Monmouth County, where roughly one-third of
the top girls and boys names are Jewish Orthodox
WHAT’S IN A NAME?Parents seek meaning in baby monikers, experts say
Jodi Martelli
of Toms River
talks about
her new
daughter,
Michelina
Raye Wright,
and how she
and her fiance
chose the
name that
combines
both of their
heritages.
DOUG
HOOD/STAFF
PHOTOGRAPHER
By Gina Columbus :: @ginacolumbusapp
See NAMES, Page A2
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa — At
first glance, it looks like busi-
ness as usual here except for
the flags at half-staff, fluttering
in the customary strong winds.
A closer look finds a preoccupa-
tion on the faces of people who
usually go about life with big
smiles and warm greetings in
one of the numerous languages
spoken here.
Residents and visitors alike
struggle to find the appropriate
words to frame their thoughts
about the passing of civil-rights
legend, status-quo challenger
INSIDE
Nelson Mandela served as the
conscience of South Africa.
OPINION, A13
See GOODBYE, Page A3
Bob
Ingle
COMMENTARY
So hard
to say
goodbye
BRICK — Two men broke into a
home, bound and gagged the res-
ident and ransacked the place —
andwhilepolicearestilltryingto
determine why, neighbors say
they worry whether it could hap-
pen again.
Two men dressed all in black
and covering their faces with
scarves forced their way into a
Montclair Drive home on Thurs-
day, possibly using long guns,
said Capt. Robert Mazza, spokes-
man for the Brick police.
A 10-year-old inside the house
escaped to a neighbor’s house,
and police were called, arriving
at the home around 8:20 p.m.,
Mazza said.
There, they found the resi-
dent bound and gagged on the
floor but uninjured. Another
younger child also was inside the
house, Mazza said.
Brick
resident
bound,
gagged
See BOUND, Page A4
Police search for
two men in black
By Stephanie Loder
@Loder1
The surprise Japanese attack
on the U.S. Navy base at Pearl
Harbor on the morning of Dec. 7,
1941, led to the United States
entry into World War II.
NATION, A5
Remembering
Pearl Harbor
Employers are beginning to take
steps such as requiring breaks
and switching off employee
email at the end of the workday
to reduce worker burnout.
YOUR MONEY, A6
Battling
burnout
The Manalapan Braves football
team will try to win its first sec-
tional championship on Sunday
when it plays Hunterdon Central
at High Point Solutions Stadium.
SPORTS, C1
Sectional
championship
COMING SUNDAY
T H E H E R O I N E P I D E M I C
J E S S E ’ S J O U R N E Y T O S A V E L I V E S
Wintry one-two punch
predicted for New
Jersey NJ & REGION, A3

2. TOP NEW JERSEY
BABY NAMES
BOY
» Michael, 473
» Matthew, 395
» Jacob, 368
» Joseph, 347
» Anthony, 315
» Ethan, 303
» Ryan, 295
» Alexander, 280
» Liam, 279
» Jayden, 257
GIRL
» Isabella, 546
» Sophia, 534; Sofia, 124
» Emma, 468
» Olivia, 458
» Ava, 351
» Emily, 310
» Mia, 284
» Abigail, 227
» Victoria, 140
» Madison, 123
Source: Preliminary 2013
data from the New Jersey
Department of Health;
based on hometowns of
parents
names, like Chana, Chaya,
Esther, Rivka and Batshe-
va for the girls; and
Moshe, Chaim and Yosef
for the boys. The Mon-
mouth list, in fact, varies
markedly both from the
statewide baby names, as
well as the national list.
For New Jersey, pre-
liminary data from the
state Department of
Health has names like Mi-
chael and Matthew at the
top of the 2013 list for
boys, and Sophia and Isa-
bella for girls. The state
list data is based on the lo-
cation of the parents’ resi-
dences.
The national list, from
the pregnancy and par-
enting website BabyCen-
ter.com, has Jackson in
the top spot for a boy’s
name and Sophia for a
girl’s name — the latter
for the fourth consecutive
year.
The latest list of the
year’s most popular
names reflects a new gen-
eration of parents striv-
ing for meaning in the
names they choose, says
Linda Murray, global edi-
tor in chief of BabyCen-
ter.com. The website lists
names of 555,000 babies
born in 2013 to registered
moms.
“We saw a marked
change this year,” she
says. Parents “want a
name that feels important
tothem.Lookingbackinto
your own family tree is a
way to find a person
meaningful to you. We see
the search for meaning in
this generation really
starting to show up in the
baby-naming ranks.”
Not having a trendy
name was important to
Wright and Martelli. He’d
always liked the name
Sophia — until it seemed
that everyone else was
named naming their baby
Sophia, too.
“Wetakeour7-year-old
to soccer, to birthday par-
ties, and there’s like three
Sophias,” Wright said, ad-
mitting Olivia, Isabella,
Ava and Emma also were
on their brainstorming
list.
The San Francisco-
based site also surveys
mothersaboutthenaming
process. The online sur-
vey of 2,468 women, con-
ducted in October, in-
cludes 2,205 mothers and
263 women expecting
their first child.
Among survey find-
ings:
» 81 percent like clas-
sic names; 43 percent like
very unusual, unique
names.
» 80 percent finalized
their name decision be-
fore the birth.
» 63 percent dislike the
baby-naming trend of ce-
lebrity-inspired names.
» 54percentsaypeople
they know are the inspira-
tion for names: “My
grandparents or my part-
ner’s grandparents” led
the list at 39 percent.
Thatrelianceonfamily
is how Trevor Christman
and Elizabeth Bailey of
Little Silver decided on a
name for their son, Thom-
as Arthur.
Thomas is a middle
name for Bailey’s brother
and grandfather, and a
first name for her great-
grandfather. Arthur is the
middle name of both Bai-
ley and Christman’s fa-
thers.
“We thought of a mil-
lion names,” Bailey said.
“I think there’s a big trend
for unusual names and we
kind of wanted to be un-
usual and go with a classi-
cal name, and it’s a family
name too.”
“In the end, it (Thom-
as) ended up being unusu-
al … I feel like he’ll be the
only Thomas in his class,”
said Bailey, who re-
searched names and their
origins on
Thinkbabynames.com.
Wendy Higgins of Tin-
ton Falls went for both the
unusual, and the familiar,
when she named her first-
born daughter Kenley
Rose. The name means
“royal meadow,” she said.
“It was actually a
neighbor when I was 3
years old and lived in Vir-
ginia; this neighbor had
that name … a little girl,”
Higgins, 38, said. “We
talked about it real briefly
earlier in the pregnancy
andkindofdisregardedit,
but then came back to it.”
Higgin’s husband
browsed the Social Secu-
rity website to see names
that were too popular,
such as Emma, or already
taken by family members
— Grace, Emily and Oli-
via.
“ButIdon’tknow,Ijust
wanted a name where you
would picture the child
being happy,” Higgins
said. “It just seems like a
happy name to me, and it’s
different.”
Gina Columbus:
732-643-4010;
gcolumbus@gannett.com
Contributing: USA Today
Newborn Michelina Raye Wright’s name was chosen in keeping with the current trend for traditional and family names.
DOUG HOOD/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
NAMES
Continued from Page A1
OCEAN
BOY
» Joseph
» Anthony
» Michael
» Ryan
» Liam
GIRL
» Sophia
» Emma
» Isabella
» Olivia
» Emily
MONMOUTH
BOY
» Michael
» Chaim
» Moshe
» Joseph
» Nicholas
GIRL
» Chana
» Sophia
» Esther
» Emma
» Chaya
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Today is Saturday,
Dec. 7, the 341st day of
2013. There are 24 days
left in the year.
On this date:
1787: Delaware be-
comes the first state to
ratify the Constitution.
1796: Electors choose
John Adams to be the
second president.
1808: Electors choose
James Madison to be the
fourth president.
1842: The New York
Philharmonic performs
its first concert.
1909: In his State of
the Union address,
President William How-
ard Taft defends the de-
cision to base U.S. naval
operations in the Pacific
at Pearl Harbor in Ha-
waii, instead of in the
Philippines.
1941: Japan launches
a surprise attack on the
U.S. Navy base at Pearl
HarborinHawaiiaspart
of its plan to conquer
Southeast Asian territo-
ries; the raid, which
claimssome2,400Amer-
ican lives, prompts the
United States to declare
war against Japan the
next day.
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