Friday, May 2, 2008

Choosing a name for your baby

Choosing baby names isn't exactly a piece of cake job. Many a times people find themselves online, or maybe with friends, or members of their family, discussing what their baby should be named, now a name in a baby's life as a grown adult will have a lot of significance and importance and thereby it is important to choose a good name for them.

So, a few pointers should be taken care of. Firstly, the name your baby will have should not be one that is too long or too tough to pronounce, remember or understand yet unique. You do not want your child's friends to keep forgetting what his name was. For example I knew someone who had named their child after a Roman saint, however, the name was pretty long and most people found themselves asking again and again trying to remember it.

Now I'm not saying you should name your child another Sean, Paul or David, but there is no shortage of good boy or girl names out there as well. A correct definition of a good name for a baby would be one that is remember-able, short, unique, and has a meaning to it. Also try choosing a name that has less than seven characters, which would be, in my opinion, the ideal number of letters. Good luck!

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