Pepper's Notebook puts her name front and center, written in flowing script across a soft watercolor apple blossom design.
Behind the Name says Pepper comes from the English word for the spice, which is prepared from the dried berries of the pepper plant. The word derives from the Latin piper and ultimately from an Indo-Aryan source. It lists the name for girls and boys. In popular culture, Pepper is the nickname of Virginia Potts in the Iron Man comic books and films, created in 1963. Wikipedia describes Pepper as a given name, nickname and surname.
Behind the Name finds no related names for Pepper, so there is no family tree. Wikipedia lists the name both as a given name and as a nickname, and its page shows many people who were nicknamed Pepper, including athletes and musicians.
Wikipedia’s list of people with Pepper as a given name includes Pepper Schwartz, born in 1945, an American sociologist and sexologist, and Pepper Keenan, born in 1967, an American rock musician. It also names Pepper Winters, a Hong Kong-born American romance novelist, and Pepper Ottman, an American politician in the Wyoming House of Representatives since 2021. Among nicknames, it lists the jazz saxophonist Pepper Adams (1930 to 1986) and the catcher Pepper Paire (1924 to 2013), who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
Pepper never appeared in a Social Security top-200 decade table, from the 1880s to the 2010s. Behind the Name’s US chart shows it for girls in only one year, 951st in 1975. That makes it one of the rarest choices in a notebook, and it fits a lively personality.
Wikipedia’s Pepper page lists Mrs. Pepper, a female character in the children’s series Blue’s Clues, and Pepper, the title character of the 1975 film The Great Waldo Pepper. The Iron Man connection is the most famous of all, since Pepper Potts first appeared in a 1963 comic.
Any Pepper, of any age. The 6" x 9" size is roomy enough for proper writing and small enough for a handbag or school bag. With 160 plain lined pages there’s no fixed layout, so it can be a diary, a gratitude journal, a study notebook, a recipe book or a home for to-do lists. Notebooks tend to multiply in drawers, but one with her name on the front is instantly hers.
There’s something about seeing your own name in print. It makes a notebook feel like it belongs to you, which is a good reason to fill it. It also means Pepper can pick hers out of a pile in a second, at school, at work or on the kitchen counter.
How big is Pepper’s Notebook? About the size of a trade paperback book: 6 x 9 inches (15.2 x 22.9 cm), 160 lined pages.
Where do I buy it? It’s sold on Amazon in the US, Australia and the UK. Amazon prints and ships each copy and handles delivery and returns.
Do you have other names? Yes, the same apple blossom design comes in hundreds of girls’ names. Start at all name notebooks or our personalized name notebooks guide.
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