Beyonce Is Pregnant Again: The Top 10 #BeyonceBabyNames of 2013

America wants to be close to Jay-Z and Beyonce. Desperately close. Hashtag close. Because they are officially the last celebrities who have not turned their life together into a weekly show on Bravo, they've hoovered up the country's remaining supply of Camelot-style mythos and gravitas. And because it's 2013, the...

By Phoenix New Times

May 17, 2013

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America wants to be close to Jay-Z and Beyonce. Desperately close. Hashtag close. Because they are officially the last celebrities who have not turned their life together into a weekly show on Bravo, they've hoovered up the country's remaining supply of Camelot-style mythos and gravitas. And because it's 2013, the result is an intense desire to name their child with hashtags.

Beyonce is pregnant again, and #BeyonceBabyNames returned to Twitter with a vengeance on Friday, after a year and a half off. The best part about it is that right now it seems like half of the tweeters are making jokes and the other half just really want to give Beyonce an adorable baby name to use on Blue Ivy's sibling. Here are our 10 favorite examples (so far.) Feel free to use any of them yourself, in case Beyonce (for some reason) doesn't.

@thecut Lilac Agave #beyoncebabynames
— Azalia Ganji (@AzaliaGanji) May 17, 2013

This one almost sounds too much like a name. I'm going to need something a little more ridiculous, if you don't mind.

Fleshtone Amaryllis Knowles-Carter#beyoncebabynames RT @thecut: #beyoncebabynames
— Shopbop (@shopbop) May 17, 2013

Okay, there it is.

Meanwhile, Scott L. ("Proud geek, wino, runner, auto enthusiast, atheist, and raving liberal") locks down the part of the Venn diagram where #BeyonceBabyNames and #CharlesDickensCharacterNames meet.

Chartreuse Tumbleweed #beyoncebabynames
— Scott L. (@dslundberg) May 17, 2013

Purple Beanstock #beyoncebabynames
— Scott L. (@dslundberg) May 17, 2013

@stefanjbecket Red Vines OBVIOUSLY
— Katie Notopoulos (@katienotopoulos) May 17, 2013

This one was so immediately and obviously right that a bunch of people took credit for it.

Green Lantern #beyoncebabynames
—Simone de Boudoir (@ashe_phoenix) May 17, 2013

And I'm not sure who would sue whom for this one.

Haha #BeyonceBabyNames
— ✨NicThugDizzle♕ (@WhatItIsHoe_) May 17, 2013

Okay, this just isn't how hashtags work.

#BeyonceBabyNames Apple Spice
— ✨NicThugDizzle♕ (@WhatItIsHoe_) May 17, 2013

That's better. (Except that one's taken.)

President Jimmy Carter #BeyonceBabyNames
— Russ Bengtson (@russbengtson) May 17, 2013

Having read the Major Major Major Major section of Catch-22 I'm not sure this one is a good idea.

BEYOONNNNNNCCCCCCÉÉÉÉ!!!!! I'm so happy #cantwait #BeyonceBabyNames Sean Carter Jr!!!!!!!! @beyonce
— Natalie Atherton (@Natty_Atherton) May 17, 2013

Well, sure. Maybe!

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