My mother’s middle name is Victoria. My middle name is Victoria. When and if I have a daughter – from my mouth to God’s ear - I want to name her Isabella Victoria. It’s a nice, normal name but still not a common name. If you already have kids, did you have a hard time thinking of a name? If you don’t have kids yet, do you already have a name picked out and ready for when and if you do have kids? I realize it’s more of a girl thing, but work with me here. 

Would you check with a Social Security database to see if the name you liked was too trendy? Would you spend $475 to have a numerologist test your favorite name to see if it has positive associations? Would you hire a professional baby-name consultant to use a mathematical formula? None of these appeal to you?

Ok, I have more.

How about for $35 you can go to a baby naming service and they will give you 12 names to pick from? Would you be more interested in a half hour phone consultation for the price of $95? Or you could always upgrade that package to the package where you get 3 half hour phone consultations and then, once you pick a name, you will get a personalized manual describing the name’s history, linguistic origin and personality traits. And quite frankly, at $350, it’s a steal.

I’ve had it with the all the crap baby names out there. In June of last year, the Wall Street Journal ran a story about all of the above nonsense for finding the perfect baby name. It mentioned one nervous mom-to-be from Illinois who listed her 16 favorite names on a tournament bracket and asked friends, family and people she met at baby showers to fill it out. The winner: Anna Irene. Anna Irene? ANNA IRENE? She needed help coming up with that crap? You know what? I give up.

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David - Special Child IP:138.xxx.xxx.xxx | 2008-04-07 12:06:18 Parents put so little intelligent effort into the names they burden themselves with. It is cruelty and they would be totally justified in killing said parents. I'm rather partial to using the mother's maiden name as the child's middle name. Reply 0   0

Jami - Used be someone else IP:68.xxx.xxx.xxx | 2008-04-11 10:06:50 We named our daughter (now almost 7) after Queen Victoria: Alexandrina Victoria. When we told her that she was named for Queen Victoria, she said she understood that her middle name was "Victoria" but wanted to know why we called her "Alex" instead of "Queen". Now we simply call her "Your Majesty". Reply 0   0

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