Baby names are one of the priority thoughts in most mothers-to-be. Next to whether the baby will be a girl or a boy, this is something that occupies a large percentage of pregnancy baby thoughts! There are a lot of things to consider when choosing your baby name, and there will also be a number of people who will have opinions as to what names you should be thinking about!

Both sets of perspective grandparents will have some suggestions about baby names for you to add to your list, these could be names of their parents, or their best friends, or people who have had some input into your life as you were growing up and who your parents think deserve some recognition for this. Some of the baby names they come up with could be already on your list of potential names; others may be completely unsuitable because they are outdated or just too strange for the culture in which the baby will grow up. Rather than cause any undue upsets, tell anyone hoping to have input that you haven’t named the baby yet, but will add their suggestions to your list - and hope once the baby is here that everyone is going to be so wrapped up in the baby itself that they won’t care what you call it!

The baby name you choose is going to be something that your child will be known as all of its life, so keep in mind that if you decide to keep a number of people happy, and have a Christian name, and three middle names plus the surname, your child is probably not going to be so happy every time they have to fill in an official document in the years that follow! Also try and keep the spelling of the name as simple as possible so that clerical errors can be minimized - on the other hand, if you would like and unusual name for your child, but don’t want to have the child singled out because of it, you could decide to go for a different spelling of a more common name instead.

Above all, when deciding on the baby name you will give your child, think about a name that means something to you. Perhaps it’s a name of someone you admire, or someone you love. Perhaps it’s a name that seems to connect somewhere within you. Perhaps it’s just a name that comes to mind the first moment you look into your baby’s eyes. Whatever the name is, as long as you can’t think of any reason why it would give your child any problems in the future, then that’s the baby name that should be top of your list, because it’s your baby and one of your happiest rights as a parent is to choose your baby’s name.

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