Baby Name Wizard: Pick Your Baby’s Name

Everyone seems to love to play those, “Name My Baby” games

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online, however this morning it seems to be very popular around the blogosphere. I’m not really sure why the phrase, “Baby Name Wizard” has become so popular but I’m going to include a link to a Baby Name Wizard site that I actually mentioned back in  here.

As a baby is being formed and growing inside the mother’s womb there is one fun thing to do while you wait for him/her to finally come out to greet you, that’s pick a name. How have you picked names in the past? How will you pick your baby’s name? Some believe the name is what makes a person, others believe it is something we name our child because we never got to have the name ourselves.

To me picking a name has always seemed like one of the hardest but easiest things to do, all mixed together. I mean here was this child growing inside of you and you have to pick that perfect name that’ll stick with him or her. You know, if you pick some strange name or funny name they will be picked on for the rest of their lives, or at least until they graduate high school. Some folks don’t care about that, they simply state the child will ignore it or it’ll never happen. Course every name can be changed to something smaller, I mean the name, “Elizabeth” is changed to Liz, Eliza, Lizzie, Beth, etc. But I was still always worried about the names.

With each of my children there was some different way we named our children, well not entirely the boys. They boys were actually named the same way, daddy named them and chose Italian first names and then added his brothers’ names. The girls were named by me, I wanted something beautiful but meaningful too. My first daughter, her name means “pure,” but my second daughter is named after me. Now this wasn’t intentional but I loved a name and found out when you looked it up it was translating into “Elizabeth” I had a hard time with this but in the end, she was her name. I’ve never regretted the names I gave my children.  With her name I did use a book and I went through and asked the tummy certain ones, it was that name that she kicked and bounced at.  How did you choose your names?

Here’s a few Baby Naming Ideas:

-  Baby Naming Book:  use a baby naming book and go through all those names and look up the definition. Or close your eyes and fall on a page.

-  Kids pick the Name: If you already have kids and don’t mind, ask your kids their idea. For a bit more guidance pick a letter you want your child’s name to start with and tell them if you want it to be girlie, cute, pretty, smart or macho. See what names they come up with.

-  The Baby Name Wizard, besides this site there are actually many others that’ll name your baby for you.

-  Family name: These seem to be popular, find out if there is a junior in the family. Or do what I did and find a female relative that no one has ever named their child after. It really does touch them.

-  Trend names: Wait or find one of the Top Baby Name lists for the year and name your child this way.

Now lets head over to Baby Name Wizard for a moment longer and look around. Believe it or not at least one of my boys’ names are not in the Namipedia, which dishes all about the names. Now I could jump in there and create him a page, but I just don’t know enough about his name to actually do that. If your child’s name wasn’t in the Namipedia, did you create him/her a page? What did you think of the site?