It’s that time of year again! It’s our FOURTH ANNUAL Best Celebrity Baby Names of the Year, where we look back at some of the best, the funniest, the weirdest, and the craziest celebrity baby names that arrived during 2009.

This annual review is co-sponsored by our sister site, Baby Names Garden, which is absolutely the best destination on the web for truly original baby names information, and over there you can find the full report on Best Celebrity Baby Names 2009.

2009 was another great year for celebrity baby names — including the unusual (Ione Skye named her daughter Goldie Priya); the strange (Brandon Flowers named his son Gunner): the spiritual (Joy Enriquez brought us Heavenly Joy); the traditional (Tom Cavanagh and Maureen Grise came up with James Joseph); and the truly “out-there” (from Sparrow James Midnight to Bandit Lee and Petal Blossom Rainbow)!

It was no easy task picking our choices for the Ten Best Celebrity Baby Names of 2009. So much to choose from. But in the end, we went for the creative, the unique, and the most memorable we could find. Here’s our list of the top ten — and you can find full details about each name at the official 2009 Celebrity Baby Names page.

1. Sparrow James Midnight, son of Nicole Richie and Joel Madden

2. Petal Blossom Rainbow, daughter of Jamie and Jools Oliver

3. Mars Merkaba, daughter of Erykah Badu and Jay Electronica

4. Mason Dash, son of Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick

5. Atlas, son of Anne Heche and James Tupper

6. Bandit Lee, daughter of Lyn-Z and Gerard Way

7. Gunner, son of Brandon and Tana Flowers

8. Louisanna Ray, daughter of Leelee Sobieski and Adam Kimmel

9. Seraphina Rose Elizabeth, daughter of Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck

10. Bardot Vita, daughter of David Boreanaz and Jaime Bergman

Get the whole story, and even more names from 2009, at the Celebrity Baby Names Page.

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Actress Maya Rudolph (Away We Go) and husband/director Paul Anderson made it two, in early November, with the arrival of daughter Lucille. The couple also have a 4 year-old daughter named Pearl.

Singer Joy Enriquez and music producer Rodney Jerkins may have thought they were being original when they named their new arrival Heavenly Joy on November 17 in Los Angeles, but that name can’t hold a candle to Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily, daughter of the late Paula Yates, British writer, and the late Michael Hutchence, singer with the Aussie rock band Inxs.

Singer Lisa Loeb and husband Roey Hershkovitz chose Lyla Rose for their daughter who arrived the Sunday after Thanksgiving. Yet another instance of “Rose” as a middle name. The name Rose is going to get an inferiority complex if someone doesn’t pick it for a first name soon. It’s the fourth time this year as a middle name, according to our celeb baby name database, including Jennifer Garner’s Seraphina Rose; Maxine Bahn’s Madison Rose; and Roger and Mirka Federer’s amazingly similar Myla Rose.

Star of the hit show Scrubs, Judy Reyes, and boyfriend/director George Valencia, had an exciting Thanksgiving, with the arrival of daughter Leila Rey.

Joey McIntyre, youngest member of the off-again/on-again aging pop group New Kids On The Block, and his wife Barrett, welcomed their second son, Rhys Edward, on December 13. The little guy joins big brother Griffin in the McIntyre household.

And, what I think is the coolest celebrity baby name in this particular round up: say hello to Mason Dash, newborn son to reality star Kourtney Kardashian (seen here celebrating her 29th birthday in Vegas) and her boyfriend Scott Disick. I’m not sure what it is about Mason Dash that sounds so cool, but it does. It’s not like Mason is so original, and even Dash has been done before, but there’s something about the way those two names go together that I love — Mason Dash. You just know the kid is going to have an interesting future…

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