Articles & Expert Guides on Baby Names

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254 Thai Baby Names: Traditional, Modern, and Thai-American Favorites

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239 Amish Baby Names: Traditional, Timeless Baby Names with Quiet Power

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212 Fancy Baby Names That Feel Effortlessly Luxurious

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228 Food Baby Names: Sweet, Spicy, and Totally On Trend

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307 Country Girl Names (With Meanings) for Your Little Cowgirl

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234 Country Boy Names: Rugged, Southern, Cowboy-Inspired Baby Names

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817 Meaningful Native American Baby Names From Across the U.S.

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120 Cool Last Names That Make Perfect First Names (And Why They’re So Stylish)

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211 Aesthetic Baby Names for Creative, Trendsetting Parents

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230+ Old Money Baby Names That Sound Oh-So Bougie

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From the community

Baby name suggestions

Need boy and girl names for baby number 3. I've got a boy called Finn and girl Hazel I'd love something short.

Baby girl first name ideas

We like the middle name “Claire”. Last name is Hammond

Sisters

Big sister Felicity Alma

New baby if a girl Elowyn Betty

Help!

Stuck on names, I have an Ollie already.

We were set on Hugo but I don’t like any of the shortened nicknames for Hugo and don’t feel it’s as easy to say as Ollie! What do you think?

Baby boy nameless

He is here and still without a name. Please help us pick by selecting your favourite or suggesting another. We like uncommon but not out-there names. Based in UK.

My best friend is currently not talking to me because I “stole” her baby name.

I just had my second daughter. This friend was the second person I told outside of my husband. She has been with me as much as she can for the entire pregnancy (we live 4ish hours apart). We talked about baby names a lot, especially girl names as I’ve know what my husband and I would name a son since my first pregnancy. Once my husband and I settled on a name after confirming baby was another girl, this friend was again the first person I told. Afterwords I always referred to baby as her name.
Fast forward to after the birth and I’m FaceTiming this friend to properly introduce her to my new daughter and I refer to her as the nickname my husband and I have been using since we chose her name. I’ve used this nickname while talking to my friend just as much as her chosen name and yet it is only after my daughter is born that my friend tells me the nickname is her first choice girl name.
She hasn’t talked to me since that conversation and I’m just at a loss about how I could be the bad guy. She says I should’ve known this was her chosen name. I say we’ve had exactly one conversation in 10+ years of friendship about what her baby name choices are and the last conversation was over 7 years ago.
I feel it’s important to mention that she is not pregnant, and is not remotely close to becoming pregnant. I also have no issue what so ever if she wants to use the nickname as it’s just that to us; a nickname. I doubt we’ll end up using it still by the time she has kids.

This by no means will end our friendship, I just think it’s a stupid fight that could’ve been avoided if she’d mentioned it sooner