ABC television presenter, Virginia Trioli, and her husband, journalist Russell Skelton, recently welcomed their son, Addison Marcello Skelton.
Virginia has been a journalist in print, on radio, and on TV for many years; she has won two Walkley Awards. Since 2008, she has been co-host on ABC News Breakfast.
Russell is a contributing editor to The Age newspaper, and has been reporting on Indigenous issues since 2005. He has won the Grant Hattam Quill Award for investigative journalist, and a United Nations Association Peace Award for his reports on Aboriginal disadvantage. Russell has children from a previous relationship.
Virginia and Russell were married in 2003 in Italy.
Addison is a bold choice for a boy, as it is a Top 100 name for girls in Victoria, where the Skelton family live. I’m pleased to see that gender take-backs can occur at any point, if parents only have the gumption to do so.
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I’d be changing that name when i grew up
Addison is the common name for Addison’s disease.
Helen Reddy suffered from it ,amongst other others, including President Kennedy of the U.S.A.
Strange choice to name your child after a disease.
Amelia is the medical term for being born with a limb missing, but it’s still a popular name for girls.
Addison is neither a boy’s name nor a girl’s. It is a surname, as are so many names bestowed on defenceless children by the foolish these days.
People have been using surnames as first names since at least Roman times (eg Julius), so it can hardly be said to be something which occurs only “these days” (whenever such days are said to have begun).
congratulations you have finally made it!!!
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Congrats on your son 🙂 and r u coming back to abc breakfast ? Miss u 😦
What person calling their daughter ‘Addison’ would think they were giving the child a girl’s name? Think of it’s origin – SON of Addis. Any name with the suffix ~’son’ was originally intended to identify the son of a particular man, not the daughter. In those days, females were regarded as lesser citizens, hence there is no Maryson or Elizabethson, nor is there Johnsdaughter or Thomsdaughter. The naming of their child is not only the affair of that family, but they are more correct than those using it as a girls’ name.
Actually there are quite a few surnames based on female names – Elea at British Baby Names has a recent entry with a few of them:
http://www.britishbabynames.com/blog/2012/05/metronymic-surnames.html
I love Addison on a boy. I once met a 14 year old boy named Addison. He started to go by Adam when his name blew up as a girls name. I guess he started being teased for it.
I wonder what happens if you are born into a name that’s already popular for girls? School seems to scupper many a parent’s name plans, I’ve noticed.
My son is Erryn and he’snever had a problem with it at all. He’s 30 this year!
Good point! I’m around your son’s age, and went to school with several boys named Erin; I never thought of it as a girl’s name (no matter how spelled).
The actor Erryn Arkin is also 30 this year.