I know, I know. Finding a name for your baby can be emotional, difficult, even stressful.
Or plain easy breezy and you don’t even know what’s the fuzz about naming a baby being difficult.
When naming our kids, finding the name was extremely difficult, since we wanted the names to be pronounced somewhat same in both Finnish and English. I like Finnish hippie names like Tuuli (meaning wind) or Meri (meaning ocean), but they don’t sound as beautiful to me when pronounced in English. I always wanted to give my daughter a middle name Helmi, meaning pearl, since it has been in my family for so long, but it just didn’t work with the names we chose. We wanted to keep the traditions going on though, so all of our children have middle names, which have been long in the family.
Thankfully nowadays there are so many resources where to find baby names, that you will be able to find “it”. I have listed here some great links and resources to find baby names, listed the most popular names and even featured a few books to help you with the task. All the names having links lead to the meaning of the name.
TOP 10 RESOURCES TO FIND BABY NAMES:
1. Baby Names World
2. Baby Names Country
3. Baby Names
4. Yeah Baby
5. Alternative Baby Names
6. What to Expect
7. All New Baby Names
8. Baby Names Garden
9. Parents
10. Babycenter
MOST POPULAR BABY NAMES for 2007
Source: The BabyCenter® & Msn
Top 10 Girl Names
1. Sophia
2. Isabella
3. Emma
4. Madison
5. Ava
6. Addison
7. Hailey
8. Emily
9. Kaitlyn
10. Olivia
Top 10 Boy Names
1. Aiden
2. Ethan
3. Jacob
4. Jayden
5. Caleb
6. Noah
7. Jackson
8. Jack
9. Logan
10. Matthew
TOP 10 BOOKS FOR FINDING BABY NAMES
1. The Baby Name Wizard: A Magical Method for Finding the Perfect Name for Your Baby by Laura Wattenberg (10,36$)
2. The Baby Name Bible: The Ultimate Guide By America’s Baby-Naming Experts by Pamela Redmond Satran and Linda Rosenkrantz(9,56$)
3. The Right Baby Name: The Scientific Guide to Naming Your Baby by Oliver Tavakol (14,99$)
4. Beyond Jennifer & Jason, Madison & Montana : What To Name Your Baby Now by Linda Rosenkrantz and Pamela Redmond Satran (9,41$)
5. Cool Names: for Babies by Linda Rosenkrantz and Pamela Satran (9,95$)
6. 100,000 + Baby Names: The Most Complete Baby Name Book: Including 300+ Fascinating Lists, The Latest Naming Trends, Key to Gender-Neutral Names by Bruce Lansky (10,369,95$)
7. The Complete Book of Baby Names by Lesley Bolton (10,36$)
8. The Everything Baby Names Book, Completely Updated With 5,000 More Names!: Pick the Perfect Name for Your Baby by June Rifkin (10,17$)
9. World of Baby Names by Teresa Norman(12,71$)
10. 75,000+ Baby Names for the 21st Century by Lori Cooper (8,98$)
BABY GOES HOLLYWOOD
Hollywood has always been a great source for parents naming their babies. Whether it’s parents honoring their idols like Cameron Diaz or Victoria Beckham to favoring the same names the celebrities name their babies.
Celebrity baby names have become more popular than ever!
Celebs have some great trends in baby naming. Madonna started a trend naming babies with a place name, she named her daughter Lourdes, a town in France. Of course, Paris was already in the list, thanks for Hiltons, and it is also Michael Jackson’s daughters name. But place-names have become more and more popular.
Austin, Brooklyn, Kingston, Madison and Montana, Alabama, Destin, Phoenix, Jordan and Indiana…
We didn’t go this popular route, I never temped naming my child Helsinki or Paimio, but we named our dog after the city where me and my husband met. We met in Frankfurt am Main, and we still haven’t seen other dogs named Frank.
Other creative way to name your baby is give a sweet name like Apple (Gwyneth Paltrow’s daughter), Hazel (Julia Robert’s daughter), Peaches Honeyblossom ( daughter of Bob Geldof & Paula Yates), or Poppy Honey (daughter of Jamie Oliver). And when I hear “Ginger Spice” Geri Halliwell’s daughter’s name Bluebell, I can’t think of anything else but Blue Bell ice cream from Texas, even though the name was probably picked after the flower.
Many parents have a story to tell reasoning naming their kid Tiger, Liberty, Banjo or Fifi-Trixibelle. Of course, if you don’t really have a great story, but want something different… you can always name your kid Story, like Jenna Elfman and her husband did.
But even if you want to go on the wild side, you still might want to google the meaning of the name. For example at the first sight Melena might sound a great name for a little princess, it is “a beautiful or Fresh scent often found in a flower located in Eritrea” but Wikipedia tells a totally another story, and that ain’t pretty.
ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD… Most popular Baby (first) names in Finland
Top 10 Girl First Names in Finland
1. Aino
2. Emma
3. Sara
4. Ella
5. Venla
6. Anni
7. Aada
8. Iida
9. Emilia
10. Helmi
Top 10 Boy First Names in Finland
1. Eetu
2. Veeti
3. Aleksi
4. Elias
5. Joona
6. Onni
7. Arttu
8. Leevi
9. Lauri
10. Juho
Have fun naming that baby!
Katja (Katja means “pure” and comes from Kathrine or Katarina)
Ps. Just a clarification for family and friends… This is not an indictaion that we are in need of new baby names – we are not! But we would like to have more nieces or nephews though ;)
Pictures:
From Posh Peacock stationery
Read more:
List of Celebrity Baby Names
Behind our favorite celebrity baby names
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Doesn’t it suck when you like a name and then you know someone with that name who’s not your favorite type of person…? :)
Toi Melena juttu oli hi hii… :)
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