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Global Baby Names: Picking a border-crossing name
Nov 24, 2024
  Canadian guest blogger and name book writer Shandley McMurray offers some advice on global baby names–picking a name that will travel well. (And those are her beautiful kids in the illustration.)   Growing up with a name like Shandley in Canada wasn’t always easy. I became tired of correcting people’s spelling and...
The Top Ten Baby Name Problems: And how to solve them
Nov 24, 2024
  Ideally, choosing your baby’s name is a fun, inspired endeavor, but too often baby name problems get in the way.  Here are the problems we hear most often, and how to fix them:   Your family interferes with your name choice   Your mom wants you to name the baby after her. ...
Middle Names: How To Make A Distinguished Choice
Nov 24, 2024
  No sooner had we declared the death of such old-style middle names as Ann, John, and Marie – mere connective tissue between the first name and the last – than we started seeing the rise of a whole new generation of undistinguished middle names.   There are now officially enough little...
Sibling Names: 7 Things Every Parent Should Know
Nov 24, 2024
  When we published our first baby-naming book Beyond Jennifer & Jason in 1988, we introduced the idea of sibling names: that the names of your second, third, and subsequent children should “go with” that of your first.  Not matchy-matchy names, like Jane and Jean.  But names that carried a similar...
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