Thanks to technology, parents can turn to blogs and Web sites (including the Yahoo! Baby Names Answers site) to seek help from others (often strangers) when it comes to naming their babies.
How did you decide what to name your baby? Did you seek advice online? Have a survey on your blog? Randomly choose from a baby name book? Did you wait to meet your child before selecting a name?
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We asked in a lot of places and check baby names sites. And we did a list of the names we liked, and from there it was easy.
We did have a name picked out for a girl when we found out we were expecting. We stuck with that name for the entire 9 months. The minute our daughter was born we realized the name did not fit her spicy personality and changed it.
We have twin boys and we struggled for months on what to name them. After about our 3rd sonogram of seeing them labels on the pictures as baby A and baby B we decided their names should reflect that so we started looking for A and B names we liked. We decided on Aiden and Bryson. It was also nice because our oldest is Conner so we now have AB&C.
My first child, a girl, was named after my best friend, Jolene. She was killed in a car wreck when we both were 12. I promised myself my first born girl was going to be named “Jolene”. That was almost 21 years ago, and my daughter is now 10.
My husband is Scottish, so we looked for Scottish names for our son. He wanted a traditional name, while I insisted on an “original” name. We couldn’t agree, so we looked online. We both chose a handfull of names, and put them together for a first and middle name. We compared the lists, and had two matches. So we let our daughter choose his name. That’s how our little Tobias “Toby” Nathaniel got his name.
Hi Lori,
You asked for helpful baby names web sites in your recent article — I have a baby name blog (http://www.nancy.cc/) which I try to make as helpful (or at least as interesting) as possible.
-Nancy
Hi Lori,
Another site which may be useful for expectant parents is http://www.TheRightBabyName.com
The Right Baby Name provides tools for assessing potential names on a number of different and personalized criteria, including ethnic, religious, and social “fit”, perceptions and “goodwill” generated by the name, and whether the name is associated with certain types of professionals.
We hope it’s helpful!
Sean