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How to Pick a Name

Looking for baby name ideas, advice, meanings, and popularity? You'll find everything you need below – including a list of the top 100 baby names, our helpful Baby Names Finder, forums where you can bat around name ideas, and much more.

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Community

  • Baby Name HELP!
    By Nmetzger929 in January 2020 Birth Club
    Is here!!! Need help finding a less popular name? Looking for a name starting with a specific letter? Want something that works for boys or girls? Then check out this site with 400,000+ name options. It even gives you origin and meaning! http://www.bounty.com/pregnancy-and-birth/baby-names/baby
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    • "Different" baby boy names
      By Snugga Bear in Baby Names
      Looking for suggestions for baby boy names, but I hate the normal, popular names. For example, if this baby is a girl, it will be Phoenix Lynn Williams. I honestly love the name Pierce, but as a middle name. We are a family of nerds/geeks so reference names or names with meaning are welcome.... And
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      • Need boy ideas!
        By chaiteamom in Baby Names
        Just found out earlier this week that our Christmas baby is a boy. For a girl we were considering: Gwendolyn Rosalie Mirabelle Big siblings are 0liver, Be@trix, and The0 (in heaven). 0liver we named without looking up popularity (we had never met an 0liver). We were shocked to find out later how p
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