What’s In a Name? The babynaming dilemma

Traditional or modern? Focus on the meaning of the name, or name him or her after a family member? Now pregnant with my second child, I’ve been spending a large percentage of my brain power focused on the question of what name to pick.

The options are seemingly endless when looking at the books proclaiming 100,001+ names to choose from, but would I really choose Bertha or Butterfly? (no offense to any Berthas or Butterflys out there). I could go the route of the famous and pick a name like Alchamy, Apple or Freedom, but I really don’t think we’re cool enough.

So while searching for the perfect name, I’ve come across two favorite sites that I’ve been using to help me narrow down our list. First, Baby Name Voyager with their namevoyager and namemapper, and my newest find thanks to Nick: Appellationmountain.net, a highly addictive blog where we’ve found endless ideas previously not considered (and many that - although we’d never think of using - are incredibly interesting to read about!)

And then of course my husband and I need to agree…