The Art of Naming

Go ahead and put that baby name book down. Close all of your browser tabs, too. You don't need them anymore! It's true, you've been hunting for a wonderful name starting with D to honor a few relatives whose names also begin with D, but you haven't found the right one yet. Look no further! This is your list!! I present to you 50 of the best D names for boys and girls!  These names range from common to unusual but they are all delightful. Which do you like best? If you had to delete one name from each list, what would you replace them with? Share your thoughts in the comment section below!  Dagny                        Daisy Dahlia Danae Danica Danielle Daphne Darcy Davina Dawn Deanna Dierdre Delaney Delilah Delphina Demetria Desdemona Desiree Diana Dianthe Dixie Dorothea Dorothy Dulce Dulcinea Dalton Damian Daniel Dante Darius Darren Dashiell David Dax Dawson ...

So you're expecting a baby soon. Congratulations! What name will you choose?  If you're still a bit stumped in that regard, perhaps you'll enjoy this simplified list of ideas. In this series of posts, I cut out a lot of the work for you. I'm saving you from hours of browsing through endless lists of thousands of baby names. Here you'll find fifty of the best names that start with the letter C. That's 25 per gender and there's a little bit of something for everyone. These mostly follow American ideals but they can also work abroad. As a fan of C names, you'll surely find one that you love. Go on, take a look: Cadence                        Caitlin Calista Calliope Camille Cara Caroline Cassandra Catherine Cecelia Celeste Celine Charlotte Cheyenne Christina Claire Claudia Clementine Colette Constance Cordelia Corinne Cosette Courtney Cynthia Caesar Caius Caleb Calvin Cam...

When you are in need of an amazing baby name, where do you look? A baby name book? A website with a database full of names? Your family tree? ...A phone book?  All of these options will provide great names, I'm sure, but they may also be a bit overwhelming in size. A book can be a couple hundred pages long with a few thousand names in it. Baby name databases online could hold 100,000 names or more!  How are you ever supposed to track down the perfect name for your child? You're in luck! If you happen to be a fan of names that begin with the letter B, you may find a winner on the lists below.  I sifted through hundreds of B names to handpick 50 of the very best options available to you. There are 25 for girls and 25 for boys. I hope you'll fall for one of them! Bailey                      Beatrice Beatrix Bellamy Belle Bernadette Betty Bethany Bianca Blair Blanca Blythe Brianna Briar Bri...

Baby name websites have thousands of names in their databases. This can cause headaches for expecting parents to browse through. How do you know which will be the perfect name for your little one? How can you sift through the unusual names from foreign cultures that you've never even heard of and don't know how to pronounce? After all, you just want a familiar, traditional name that will work well on a baby today. The following list contains fifty of the best names that start with the letter A, twenty-five names per gender. The goal was to include something for nearly everyone. Since I'm based in the US, these names lean more toward current American styles but I'm sure some of these work internationally too. Take a look and let me know which you like best:      Girls: Aaliyah                                    Abigail Adelaide Addison Adriana Ainsley Alana ...