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Initial Problems
Add your comment | February 2, 2012 | Filed under: Blogroll, General names | Written by: LukeWhen naming your baby, how much thought do you give to their future initials? Most people would probably answer, ‘not very much’ but is it important to make sure you don’t accidently give your child initials which could get them teased? For example, Albert Stephen Smith could spell out trouble for your little one when [...]
Surname Woes
Add your comment | January 31, 2012 | Filed under: Blogroll, General names | Written by: LukeWe can’t all be blessed with beautiful sounding surnames, so how important is it to get your baby’s first name to sound ‘right’ with it? You might have had a perfect name in your head since you were a child yourself, but now you’ve married someone with a surname that really doesn’t go with that [...]
Keeping It In The Family
Add your comment | January 12, 2012 | Filed under: Blogroll, General names | Written by: LukeWhat do you use as inspiration for your baby name? A favourite character in a book or film? An influential person from history, perhaps? I have to wonder whether family names come into the deciding process more than we realise. When you ask people about the names in their family, you can almost be sure [...]
Your Christmas Baby Names
Add your comment | November 30, 2011 | Filed under: General names, Name popularity | Written by: LukeSo it’s that time of the years again, it doesn’t seem like yesterday that Christmas 2010 was just around the corner! For those of you who are pregnant, or just about to give birth during December you might be stuck for names! If that is the case then perhaps you might want some ideas, and [...]
Royal Baby Name Influence
Add your comment | November 1, 2011 | Filed under: Celebrity babies, General names, Name popularity | Written by: LukeSo it may be a few months since we were celebrating the wedding of the newest royal couple William and Kate, but that does not mean the influence that they had over the country has not been felt in other ways! I suppose it was inevitable that after all of the fuss made during the [...]
Love Books, Love Your Baby
Add your comment | October 24, 2011 | Filed under: General names, Name popularity | Written by: LukeThere have been a lot of changes in the way we name our children over the past few years. Recently we’ve discussed the trends in baby names and how some people have begun to regret the choices they made! Many of the trends have followed the celebrity movement in calling their babies names like Apple, [...]
Baby Name Regrets
Add your comment | October 18, 2011 | Filed under: Celebrity babies, General names, Name popularity | Written by: LukeWe have discussed the fact that celebrities have chosen strange baby names before, and how it has ushered in a range of unique names that we would all have questioned only a few years ago. It has generally been agreed that although some of the baby names were pretty ridiculous, they were all seen as [...]
A Heart Warming Baby Name Story
Add your comment | September 27, 2011 | Filed under: General names | Written by: LukeWe all love the chance to think about what exactly we are going to name our baby, and there are many reasons for choosing the baby name that we end up deciding on. Reasons can range from family members, a name of your favourite celebrity, the place of conception, or just simply a baby name [...]
The Cult of Celebrity Baby Names
Add your comment | September 19, 2011 | Filed under: Celebrity babies, General names, Name popularity | Written by: LukeIt is something we have touched on before, and something that no doubt has become a far more common naming technique than ever before, and that is the cult of celebrity. How many of us have watched the news, flicked through a magazine, or surfed the net, only to find a million and one articles [...]
So my baby name is weird? I’m unique!
Add your comment | September 13, 2011 | Filed under: Celebrity babies, General names, Name popularity | Written by: LukeOver the past few years we have seen a huge rise in the culture of naming your child something unique. We have seen the rise of baby names such as Harper, Apple, Buddy Bear and various other names that at the start of the millennium would have been ridiculed. So what has changed in society [...]