What is a good girl's name?
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Here is a link to their naming website:
You'll want to get the most current copy of their book, which has now been completely revamped and is due out in June. Then, if they still have this chapter, you'll want to look at Fitting In/Standing Out. I named all my kids from this particular list, and *in their peer groups* I get complements all the time. For example, my almost-10-year-old daughter bears a name that is a variation on a very popular name. It's similar enough in sound to be familiar, but at the time has a very cool twist. And it's an actual traditional name. Same for my younger daughter's name. Almost every time we meet someone new, the parent says "What lovely, unusual names!"
The thing is, we now hear my 10-year-old's name given to many new babies. But we've only met one other child her age with that name. Which is what you want: a name that's on its way up but hasn't hit it yet. Early carriers of that kind of name are automatically a little more cool.
They will also tell you how to pick sibling names. For example, if you have one son named, oh, Rocco and a daughter named Isabella, then you wouldn't want to name anyone Blake--is Blake a boy or a girl? You can tell what Rocco and Isabella are, but not Blake. Or if you name a girl something extremely feminine like Emmeline (a good sub for Emma, from the fitting in/standing out thing) or Angelica, you wouldn't want to name her little sister Madge or Edna. Before even meeting them, people would have one of them pegged as a good blind date and the other pegged as a good babysitter.
Their book has gone through many revisions, with smaller books released in between. It went from being Beyond Jennifer and Jason, to Beyond Jennifer and Jason, Madison & Montana, to a complete renaming: Beyond Ava and Aidan. Their newest book before that was Brilliant Baby Names: What's Hot and What's Not from 2007; and a revision of another smaller book, Cool Baby Names, revised 2008.
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M$
Avoid nicknames - they are usually associated with lower class people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freakonomics
The book has a segment on names, and the average level of education of the mother - it's actually a fascinating read, you might want to go to a book store and read that chapter if not buy the book. You'll see some interesting names, and probably laugh more than a few times.
The Social Security Administration has a site that tracks baby names:
http://www.socialsecurity.gov/OACT/babynames/
If you're looking for somewhat uncommon names, they're really easy to find, as you can sort by popularity. Some examples from the top 100 girl names from 2007:
Ariana
Gabrielle
Caroline
Evelyn
Zoe
Aubrey
You can also look up the popularity of the name over time. Maybe you want something trendier, or something that was in fashion 15, 30, or 50 years ago - you can find that info right there.
If you want to pick something that'll be popular in the future, there were predictions made by the authors of Freakanomics on what popular names would be in 2015. Here's a site that looks at those names, and how they are "performing":
http://www.babynamesgarden.com/freakonomicspredictions.aspx
Some of those names are coming from nowhere (IE very low popularity) and obviously they're not going to get everything right, but the predictions were only made a couple of years ago (though the predictions for the boys names seem to be better), some of the drops are probably unpredictable (Quinn, for example - 2007 it took a nose dive... the year Brady Quinn was drafted in to the NFL, maybe not an ideal girl's name any more) - you might like a few of the options there.
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M$
I can't remember if it was Freakonomics or The Tipping Point (Malcolm Gladwell), but one of them pointed out the trend for parents to go out of their way to pick "unusual" names, names they feel they've come up with entirely out of the blue...and then we see a few years later that those names actually ended up the most popular that year because *so* many people somehow magically thought the exact same thing.
(Remember when "Madison" wasn't even a name? It was a joke in the 1980's movie "Splash".)
Sylvia
Caroline
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M$For English mother tongue (United Kingdom):
Brittany
Heather
Nicole
Emma
For English mother tongue (United States):
Amy
Erika
Russian mother tongue:
Svetlana
Maria
For German mother tongue:
Johanna
Ida
Juliana
For Italienne:
Elena
For Frenchies:
Susanne
Sylvie
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I don't know why the link to their website didn't post. It's http://www.nameberry.com .