Baby Name Poll Results

Here’s something I’ve noticed. It takes a certain kind of good-looking, smart, great-personality kid to carry off a "unique" name. And of course everyone likes to imagine their longed-for child being like that (good-looking, smart, great personality). I would counsel you, however, to keep in mind that your child may be lumpish and sullen. Or just boring in that way that most of us are. Imagine the name you have in mind applied to someone who is bland or even downright drab. Go through your high school yearbook and find the kids who were everything you don’t want your kid to be. Apply the name you have in mind to that person. Does it work at all? See, a strange name will just be a quirky, fun thing on a kid who already has everything going for him or her, but will be the final nail in the coffin for a kid who has any significant struggles. Think hard about the kind of kid you can REALISTICALLY expect (look at your partner and yourself as you really are, not as you wish you were. Kids really do tend to be very much like their parents). Don’t give your likely to be mousy, plump, pig-nosed daughter an Italian fashionista princess name. Don’t give your likely to be a spindly rabbit-faced acne-prone son a buff-hero-in-a-romance-novel name. It’s funny and *terrible* when the mousy plump girl is named Gianna-Vittoria, or when the little pimply git is named Blade. It’s like they have "My mom had big dreams that I’m not living up to" tattooed on their foreheads. Don’t do that to them! This is why classic names are so excellent: There isn’t any particular type of person associated with the names Michael, Elizabeth, Christopher, or Laura.