Reese Witherspoon and other celebrities mad for geography-themed baby names

Of course Reese Witherspoon named her new son Tennessee James Toth. In the ever-competitive field of celebrity baby naming, the preferred way these days of imbuing your offspring with an air of down-home authenticity or jet-set panache is a name lifted from the atlas. The trend may have started some 20 years ago with Bono?s daughter Memphis but has picked up speed lately ? to the point that Beverly Hills kindergarten rosters will soon sound like troupes of scrappy vaudvillians or the platoon from an old war movie.

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