How to Choose a Baby Name

If you have reached this point it means that you understand that baby names are more than just a list of names of which you have to randomly pick one when you are about to have a new baby.

A name might affect your child's life either for better or for worse.
A child who is unhappy with his/her name can feel miserable and in extreme cases even develop bitter resentment against his/her parents. The only thing he/she can do is to live with this frustration until reaching adulthood and then change the problematic name. Therefore, choosing an appropriate name is huge task that needs to be done very seriously.

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Statistics show that there are two main reasons for grownups to change their first names:

You are welcome to visit our names tips guide. that will give you some short and practical tips for picking the right name considering also name meanings and some guidelines if you are looking for very rare or unique names.

Currently the rarest name in our databse is:

Zelindah

It appears 1000 times in Google.

For comparison: "David" appears 2 billion times

Please visit also our professional naming choosing service. This smart engine will process your inputs based on our tips and offer you a list of options. Our searching technique include also "popularity index" for each name which will fine tune the search results according to your personal taste. Our database holds more than 30000 names.

Some tips examples ...

		It is not recommended to be influenced by fashions. Fashions tend to have short life while names ought to last for decades. Naming your child after a celebrity might turn out to be a mistake. Today's celebrity can easily become unpopular tomorrow.
		Combination with your surname: When thinking of a name, always combine it with your surname and see how they sound together. There are many examples of very bad combinations like: Dick Lasalle (Dickless Al), or Mike Hunt, Al Takeshita . etc.

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