Naming a baby is difficult

Knight

Knight

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Naming a baby is difficult. For $500, Colleen Slagen will make it easier. Slagen, a 36-year-old name consultant based in Austin, Texas, offers premium consultations to clients, which include a video call, feedback on your list of names, a curated list of 10 names with commentary and information on their popularity and a long list of honorable mention names. (Slagen also offers an $85 service for people looking for her help choosing between names.) On TikTok, Slagen shares her insights with her 73,000 followers.

ChatGPT spits out baby names in seconds. Can it replace the human touch?

Lucky for my wife & me we had no difficulty.
 

Sometimes a name can mean so much so it's best to be very careful.
My oldest Gr-Daughter named her 1st child after her FIL.
When we went to see the baby and her at the hospital, we all noticed it and we all didn't say it,
except my son. He was holding the baby and said "You know he does look just like Jim"
Gr-Daughter was going to breast feed but for some unknown reason she chose not to.
So be careful when you see that next baby not to mention who it looks like.
 
I can make suggestions. If you are a Millennial, just name the girls Olive, Hazel, Mabel or Prudence and the boys Bartholomew, Cornelius or Horatio. Millennials love old names for their kids.

To understand why millennials are choosing old names for their children, consider these factors:

  • Nostalgia for classic names that evoke a sense of history.
  • Desire for uniqueness, as vintage names are less common today.
  • Cultural influences from family traditions or heritage.
  • Aiming for timelessness, believing old names age well.
  • Rejection of modern naming trends perceived as overly trendy.
  • Influence of popular culture, including media and celebrities reviving old names.
 
In an Native American tribe, there was a very old man who was known as the Namer-of-Names. For 70 years, he had been naming the babies of the tribe. Young couples would come from other tribes just to have him name their babies.

A young man approached him and asked, "Oh, Great Namer-of-Names, how do you get your inspiration for names of the babies?"

"Well, young man," replied the old gentleman, "I'll tell you. I stand outside the tent when the babies are being born, with my eyes closed. When I hear the first cry of the newborn babe, I open my eyes and the first thing I see tells me the baby's totem spirit and that's what I name the baby. For instance, when your older brother was born, I saw an eagle and I named him Soaring Eagle. When your sister was born, I heard and saw birds and I named her Singing Bluebird."

"Why do you ask, Pile of Steaming Buffalo Sh!t?"
 
When my youngest sister was born, she was definitely going to be the boy they had been waiting for (after a bunch of girls), so they hadn't picked out a girl's name. I agitated strongly for the name of my favorite TV personality and won out of sheer persistence.

Then I named my daughter after the title of a book I had been reading. It was an uncommon name but not a weird name. My late husband got to pick out the middle name and he had his heart set on a French name, so we picked a French saint's name.

When my niece was born, I went a little crazy and picked out two names that her parents agreed to. The first one was a foreign spelling of a fairly common name at the time and the middle one was Celtic. Most people, if they see it, they can't pronounce it. If they hear it, they can't spell it. She actually likes both of the names, so I've been forgiven.
 

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