DekiArt/E+/Getty Images When my mom was pregnant, she and my dad couldn’t seem to come to a consensus on what I should be named. My mom wanted Danielle or Grace while my dad was gunning hard for Sharon or Brenda. (It was the ’80s.) Fortunately, my great-grandma suggested “Jamie,” which she’d apparently heard on “one...
Kawee Srital-on/Moment/Getty Images Naming a whole human life is pressure. A person’s name is pretty permanent (unless they choose to change it later on), and there is just something about a person’s name that shapes who they are somehow. So, yeah, expectant parents tend to mull over this decision with care and consideration. But does...
Westend61/Westend61/Getty Images For some parents-to-be, finding just the right baby name can be a challenge. For others it’s easy: certain names just come to them as if by divine inspiration. The first time my husband suggested what ultimately became our daughter’s name, I knew that was the one. Redditor u/PollutionWild4637 (we’ll call her Wild) had...
Westend61/Getty Images In his classic tragedy Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare wrote, "What’s in a name?" And as it turns out… quite a lot. More than ever, we live in a world that puts an exceeding amount of pressure on the decisions new parents make now for the future of children tomorrow. While some of...