Parents are sometimes still undecided about the baby's name until several days after he or she is born. Is that a problem?
I can remember actually talking about names that we liked when my husband and I were dating! Women do those things when they find the "right" man, don't we ;) ?
Ultimately we did not use the names we talked about years earlier, but I can recall pouring over lists and buying baby name books (since the internet itself was just a baby 19 years ago.) You would think with an easy name like "Lane" that everything would sound great with it. We found out that was not necessarily the case. We had to experiment with many names to try to find the right ones.
Nicknames are always an issue. I had a much more difficult maiden name, so I knew to be sensitive to names that were hard to spell and/or pronounce. And hearing a name that you like is not the best way to choose one. Chances are very high that if you hear a great name it is one of the more popular ones and your child may be one of several with that name.
I decided to tackle some of these issues on my two latest articles with advice on choosing Baby Names as well as some of the better Baby Name websites including a list of the most popular names to help you if you are expecting.
Let me know if you found any other baby name sites you like and why on the forum!
Have a great weekend!
Warmly,
Brenda
