An avid baby name fan (I've been updating my list for over ten years) the first thing I did after my confirmed pregnancy result was buy a baby names book. There were a lot of choices of books named along the lines of, "50k names," "75k names" "100k names" -- you get my drift. However I am a huge fan of classic yet preferably underused names, so I know those exhaustive volumes would be a waste of my time. The title of this book however was dead on, as Beatrice is already one of my favorite names (nn: Bea, Bay, Trixie).
I have about a dozen girls names in the running and about half a dozen boys names. I am not sure how secretive I'll be with them. I am much more of a person that likes to discuss and analyze the names to oblivion until I have a clear winner. So its likely I'll be sharing the names with family and close friends for reactions or more discussion. However, those who know me well will also know I will stick to my guns with my instincts, even if the name is not their favorite.
I've been very pleased with a few baby names websites I recently discovered that are much more qualitative than quantitative and have a lot of great info and advice.
Nameberry Blog - Really great blog posts types of names literally performing analysis on social security listing from around the globe letting you know for instance names that are in the top 500 now and 50 years ago, or names in the US 500 that are in the top 100 in other countries (leading one to believe they are classic, yet underused here, which is my preference). TONS of good information and an overall exhaustive site on baby names in general with good forums.
Swistle Blog - Really great advice given to parents on the verge of naming their children but just not sure which way to go.
Legit Babe Names - Their sub-header reads "Names that are not made up and have a history," which is important to me, because I'd like to translate the name to Polish, yet its mostly saintly names and names that are not made up that I'd be able to do that with. Plus, I just like classic names with history. Furthermore, I am not sure if the author of the blog is Polish or not but they have quite a few blog posts dissecting recent Polish newspaper baby announcements which is a huge plus to know whats hot back in the homeland.
Kalabarians Philosophy - Ok, this may all be hocus pocus, but this philosophy claims that energies associated with your name create your personality, your likes and dislikes, ideals, etc. At first I thought it was ridiculous, until I looked up all the close people to me...now its scarily accurate. Although this won't influence my name search too much, I can't say I am not going to look up potential baby names here for confirmation of a good name.
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I've been very pleased with a few baby names websites I recently discovered that are much more qualitative than quantitative and have a lot of great info and advice.
Nameberry Blog - Really great blog posts types of names literally performing analysis on social security listing from around the globe letting you know for instance names that are in the top 500 now and 50 years ago, or names in the US 500 that are in the top 100 in other countries (leading one to believe they are classic, yet underused here, which is my preference). TONS of good information and an overall exhaustive site on baby names in general with good forums.
Swistle Blog - Really great advice given to parents on the verge of naming their children but just not sure which way to go.
Legit Babe Names - Their sub-header reads "Names that are not made up and have a history," which is important to me, because I'd like to translate the name to Polish, yet its mostly saintly names and names that are not made up that I'd be able to do that with. Plus, I just like classic names with history. Furthermore, I am not sure if the author of the blog is Polish or not but they have quite a few blog posts dissecting recent Polish newspaper baby announcements which is a huge plus to know whats hot back in the homeland.
Kalabarians Philosophy - Ok, this may all be hocus pocus, but this philosophy claims that energies associated with your name create your personality, your likes and dislikes, ideals, etc. At first I thought it was ridiculous, until I looked up all the close people to me...now its scarily accurate. Although this won't influence my name search too much, I can't say I am not going to look up potential baby names here for confirmation of a good name.
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