Mermaid Baby Names Nursery Ideas

Mermaid Baby Names
Nursery Ideas

The Little Mermaid Poster

Girls' Names:
Anemonie Fairie Tale Theater sister of Pearl 1987
Annette Kellerman, swimmer/actress portrayed by Esther Williams in Million Dollar Mermaid 1952
Aquamarine 2001
Ariel princess in Little Mermaid (animated) 1989 film and stage production. Ariel is the youngest daughter of King Triton and Queen Athena. Her older sisters' names are Attina, Alana, Adella, Aquata, Arista and Andrina.
Ariel marries Prince Eric and they have a daughter named Melody.
Coral Fairie Tale Theater sister of Pearl 1987 Donna McKechnie and Laraine Newman
Delores De Lago was the name of Bette Midler's famous mermaid.

Lena mermaid princess Little Mermaid (animated); 1992 
Lenore (Ann Blyth) in Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid 1948
Lorelei Beach Blanket Bingo 1965
Madison (Daryl Hannah) Splash 1984  
Miranda Trewella (Glynis Johns) in Miranda 1948
Mora the Mermaid Night Tide, Dennis Hopper 1961
Ondine 2009 film (selkie)
Oona mermaid princess : Sofia the First: The Floating Palace, 2013. There's also a connection to Oona O'Neill Chaplin, wife of Charlie Chaplin. His granddaughter, the actress is also named Oona.
Pearl (Pam Dawber) Fairie Tale Theater 1987 Helen Mirren, Treat Williams also
Rusalochka 1976 Russian animated film
Syrena Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides 2011
Tris Little Mermaid (animated); 1992 sister of Lena 


Boys' Names:
Cody Thirteenth Year 1999 Disney Channel Original Movie
Finn Not a merboy or merman name far as I know, but from a character on the show, Glee. Sounds aquatic and is said to be popular.
Jamie The Secret of Roan Inish (1995) part human part Selkie

The Little Mermaid Walt Disney Art Print POSTER

Mermaid-Like:

Selkies transform from a seal to a human
Swan maidens transform from a swan to a human
** very basic definitions

Do you know of other mermaid movie names? I like these names because many of them are simply traditional names.

Sofia Coppola is set to direct a live action film of The Little Mermaid. I wonder if her name will be Ariel.

Planning a nursery? 

An aquatic or nautical theme is popular. You can easily make it gender neutral, and if your little one wants a room to transition into a big girl or big boy room parts of this theme can grow with your child. Whether your home has a coastal decor or you want your child's room to reflect the wonder and calmness of the sea, sand and sunshine there are so many ways to do it.

Themes may include:
Fishing, undersea diving, mermaids and other mythological sea creatures, famous literature such as Peter Pan, Moby Dick, Atlantis, specific animals dolphins, whales, swans or even frogs and turtles. Kiss a frog?

  Selection of gorgeous
Turquoise, Capiz Shell, Aqua Blue Chandeliers
Includes a genuine Currey and Company lighting
Three Light Chandelier, Cupertino/Turquoise Finish

Depending on your expertise some people make desks and other furniture out of salvaged materials or hand-me-down items. Old driftwood, old boat parts can become part of a book case or desk. Make sure it's built correctly and the right types of paint and finish are used for a child's room. Love the idea of reusing and recycling heirloom items.

I got a decal for my niece for Christmas; great selection. I prefer these to permanent built-ins or wallpaper. These can be placed elsewhere and removed easily without damaging the wall or paint underneath. 

Mermaid Wall Decals; Customize

A friend got a bunch of round circles of different sizes just plain "polka dots." They placed them randomly from the wall to the ceiling by the crib so it looked like bubbles. That was so cute!

There was a chandelier in the center of the room and a mobile over the crib that looked like a chandelier.

Depending on your child's age, interest and abilities, consider adding the following:

Port hole
Treasure chest
Rope ladder
Shells, shell shapes, scallop, nautilus
Fish shapes
Dive masks
Fishing poles
Shipwrecks 

Chandeliers can resemble the ship in the sky from Peter Pan or Pirates of the Caribbean. They can be fantastical bubbles in a little girl's room.

The colors blue, green, teal, gold, sand/khaki are basic and traditional but they can be starting points. 

In Douglas Fairbanks' 1924 silent film, The Thief of Bagdad, they used multiple large chandeliers that mimicked jellyfish for their undersea motif. Set designer William Cameron Menzies created an elaborate fairytale world by taking the entire environment, walls, windows, lighting. Have something sheer beside something that's opaque. 

A bed might fold up out of sight like a Murphy bed. Maybe it's a canopy bed that looks like a scallop shell?

Bedding, sheets, quilts and fabric to make quilts and blankets yourself is available. My sisters are knitters and make beautiful sweaters, socks and blankets for the new babies in our family. We have another one on the way! 

Remember chalkboard paint comes in different colors now. We saw one family had an artist create caricatures of their daughters as mermaids on the wall of the room. You might want to do this on canvas in a frame, otherwise it will have to be painted over eventually. But the girls were so excited when they walked in and saw it on the wall of their new room!

Frigate Hanging Lamps 
See more Frigate Lamp-In-A-Box Lamp
*Note, you can change border color from black to a lighter color
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Hey Stella: Stella Dallas, I Found Stella Parish, How Stella Got Her Groove Back; Barbara Stanwyck, Kay Francis, Angela Bassett, A Streetcar Named Desire; Is your name in a movie?

Have a mermaid movie party

If no film title is given above, the name and movie title are the same

Have a Mermaid Movie Party Ann Blyth Glynis Johns

Ladies from the Mermaid Pool of 1948

Have a mermaid film festival in your living room. Just add water. This also ties in

Mr Peabody and the Mermaid
William Powell shopping
He only wants bikini tops,
She doesn't wear the bottoms.

with the man in the bath themed festival. Seems more than a few mermaid movies show the ladies in a bathtub...

Have discussion afterward, comparing the storylines, how makeup, ideas of relationships between men and women, even how technology has changed over the years. How about the idea of the ideal/fantasy woman, often seen in a mermaid film.

There are mermaid movies in many genres: horror, animated, pirate, comedy; for kids, teen and adults. If you've got friends who are film buffs, there are rare films, those from every time period. 

What to serve: Sushi, fish tacos, anchovy pizza, oysters. Or maybe you'd prefer to stay away from fish altogether in deference to the mermaids, fish and sea creatures in the films? Use fish-shaped cookie cutters to shape the sandwiches, etc. Serve goldfish cheese and pretzel crackers.

Go for the gold with Berry Blue jello, include delicious fruits suspended within.
Decorate with seashells, starfish. 

Suggest people wear watery colors like blue and green. Make your guests want to pull out those camera phones. :-)
We've got friends who like to go all out for parties and those who don't.

Here are a couple movies, light comedies with familiar stars. Both movies can be streamed. Miranda and Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid.  

The films are relatively short, at about 89 minutes each. 

Glynis Johns 24x36 B&W Poster Print

It's the mermaid in the British film, Miranda (Glynis Johns) who takes the most control of the situation. 

She can speak from the start. She holds her man (Griffith Jones as the married Dr. Paul Martin) captive until he agrees to show her the city. 

It was filmed in Cornwall, England.

The mermaid's tail by Dunlop Rubber Company, a company that also does/did make tires, garden hoses and Wellies (rain boots). In 1948 Dunlop invented the self-sealing tire, which reduced the risk from blowouts. 





Googie Withers plays the doctor's wife and Margaret Rutherford is the nurse who looks after Miranda. 

According to The Telegraph, Withers, who was born in Karachi, was given the nickname Googie by her Indian nanny. "A Hindi word, meant (according to who was telling) dove or crazy." Googie, as an aside, is the pet name George Burns had for his wife, Gracie Allen.

Glynis Johns made films from the 1930s-90s, One of her best-known film roles was that of Winifred Banks, the children's mother, a suffragette, in 1964's Mary Poppins. David Tomlinson, who is Charles in Miranda will go on to play her husband, George Banks, Mary Poppins' employer and father of the children. 

So the movie Miranda offers an unexpected pre-Poppins present.

Dr. Martin brings Miranda home under the guise of her being a patient who cannot

Bette Midler
Delores De Lago
Mermaid Doll

walk. I had to smile at the mermaid's being transported in a wheelchair. It reminded me slightly of Bette Midler's Delores DeLago mermaid character as memorialized in the concert film Divine Madness. She's also available in doll form. 

You may remember the controversy that was stirred up recently when Lady Gaga performed in a show as a mermaid who traveled on stage in a wheelchair. Was it a rip-off of Midler's idea? Some in the press labeled the brouhaha MermaidGate.

Miranda never sprouts legs. She is consistently either carried by Dr. Martin or a series of other men, including Nigel (John McCallum, Ms. Withers' real life husband) who is painting a portrait of Miranda.
 
She captivates the men so much that they sometimes argue over who gets to carry her off. In the final scene, Miranda is shown on a rock, holding a little merboy on her lap. This movie has a sequel, Mad About Men in 1954.

Also married is Arthur Peabody (William Powell) in Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid.

William Powell Ann Blyth
8x10" Photo

Peabody names her Lenore (Ann Blyth). She is young and naive. Aside from some soft singing, she never learns to speak. She is sweet and naive without being sappy.

His character is just turning fifty, Blyth was 19 when she made the movie. 

At the age of 17, she had already gained notoriety and an Oscar nomination for playing Veda Pierce Forrester in Mildred Pierce with Joan Crawford, who won an Oscar for her role in the film.

This movie is one of the last dozen that Powell will make in his long career of making movies 1922-1955. His final movie will be Mr. Roberts in 1955. Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid is one of the first dozen films that Ms. Blyth made.

Blyth's makeup including the elaborate fish tail was overseen by makeup artist Bud Westmore, who was the uncle of Michael Westmore.

Michael Westmore can now be seen as a mentor on the Syfy channel competition show, Face Off. The program is hosted by his daughter, McKenzie.

They are members of the House of Westmore, the famous family in film make up. The Westmores have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

I've seen this photo in many different places and cannot track down its original source.
Ann Blyth with Glenn Strange who was playing Frankenstein's Monster in another Universal film, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein.
Also in that movie were Lon Chaney, Jr. as Lawrence Talbot/The Wolf Man and Béla Lugosi as Count Dracula.  The story I've read most often is that Blyth and Mr. Strange met when they were both made up for their day's work and thought the photo would be funny.

Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid is also different from Miranda in its middle-age-crisis plot. "What's a few grey hairs?" he says. The character, we'd expect, speaks for many men when he holds the silent mermaid close and speaks of how he wishes for some peace and quiet. Lenore never speaks, she never walks.

Fishing trip in Libeled Lady William Powell, Myrna Loy, Walter Connolly 8x10"
The 1936 film also starred Jean Harlow and Spencer Tracy

His wife is played with a bit of shrewness at the start. But that's evened out in the end when her anxiety about her husband is relieved. Powell was in his mid-50s when he made this film and clearly there was attention to how the relationship with the mermaid was portrayed. 


In real life, as with fellow actors such as Cary Grant and Bing Crosby, Mr. Powell often dated younger women and his wife was considerably younger. Bing Crosby was 30 years older than his last wife Kathryn. Grant, too was decades older than his wives.

This film has one of the best leg biting scenes since Rosalind Russell bit Paulette Goddard's leg in The Women, 1939. As much of this story is told in flashback, and told to a psychiatrist at that, we're left with the idea that it may be something of a fairy tale. Was it just a really rough entry into Mr. Peabody's fiftieth year? Was there really a mermaid down there in that pond?

Irene Hervey is Mrs. Polly Peabody. She was the real-life wife of actor Allan Jones, and mom of singer Jack Jones. We'll assume that she heard the Theme of The Love Boat sung once or twice. For a time, Jones and Robert Young ran The Bel-Air Stables. In a 1939 short MGM film, Hollywood Hobbies, the Bel Air Stables get a visit and Irene Hervey is featured.



If this movie is at all connected to the characters of Mr. Peabody & Sherman, who first appeared on the animated TV series, Rocky and His Friends and The Bullwinkle Show in the 1950s, I can't say. I know that William Powell liked dogs. But it would be a pretty silly stretch.... 

1948 was a very big year for mermaids. Also from this year was Tarzan and the Mermaids starring Johnny Weissmuller. There were no actual mermaids in this movie.



It was recently announced that Sofia Coppola plans to direct a live-action version of The Little Mermaid for Universal Pictures and Working Title Films.

The 1948 Summer Olympics, were held in London, England. After a 12-year hiatus because of World War II, these were the first Summer Olympics since the 1936 Games in Berlin. The United States won more Gold Medals overall in swimming events that year with eight. No mermaids competed in the Olympics.


The Art of Theatrical Makeup for Stage and Screen
I read that Mr. Westmore was writing an autobiography

Related Pages of Interest:

William Powell and Carole Lombard married 1931-1933; their sapphires, My Man Godfrey. Pre-Jean Harlow and Clark Gable
Men in the Bath Film Festival Movies

Have a Mary Poppins Interactive Movie Party

I'm going to talk a little more about mermaids and Mermaid Movies in another post.  Until then, Bette Midler, as Delores De Lago, can sing Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy!




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