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As I said earlier on Heat-Wave Inspired Baby Boy Names, this has been one brutal summer. And it isn’t even August! This year’s heat wave is wreaking havoc coast to coast, but one red-hot and unexpected outcome of these outrageous temperatures is this fiery list of baby girl names that are perfect for any new [...]

Not every celebrity baby name is a winner (can you say Pilot Inspektor?), but from Aviana and Blue Ivy to Solita and Willa, here are the ones we love! Read more from source:“ivillage.com” Incoming search terms:elvie names

The summer heat wave is unrelenting this year. While its too-high temps are keeping people indoors, wilting gardens, drying up the ground, and even helping ignite wildfires, this year’s heat wave is responsible for some unlikely hotness elsewhere: Right here on Babble, with this list of baby boy names that are as hot as the [...]

What do you do when the second after your husband announces your newborn baby’s name in the delivery room (a name you’ve had at the top of your list for the past fifteen years), you wonder if it was a mistake? When my daughter Mazzy Rose was born, I had the baby naming equivalent of [...]

Names is a big thing for me and we always take a lot of time debating and conjuring up a new name for our children. We love unique names — something that’s not on any top 10 and hopefully not on the top 100 list of popular baby names. So far, I think we’ve achieved that. I [...]

I am not really a superstitious person, but for many of you who are — Friday the 13th is not a lucky day. The only connection that I have to the date is my parents got married on a Friday the 13th, and they are still together 30+ years now, so I don’t think it brings along [...]

You're naming me after a boy band? I always enjoy reading the hottest baby names even though I’m officially done with naming any babies myself. I like the creativity involved and the variations of spellings, plus I love many of the traditional names, too. This year’s list so far for 2012 has left me a [...]

With Olympic athletes gearing up to do their thang this summer, you’d think I’d be inspired to get out there and sweat. Not so much. Instead, these awesome athletes have inspired me to do what I currently enjoy the most: Search for baby names. There are a few that didn’t make my list simply because [...]

by Lindsay Weiss posted in Mom Stories It appears that lots of mamas have Christian Grey to thank for their buns in the oven. Just popping around in our own Babycenter community there are hundreds ‘fessing up, saying: I would like to thank the author of “Fifty Shades of Grey” for our newest addition. DH [...]

One of the most common questions pregnant moms are asked after ‘when are you due’ is probably, ‘is it a boy or a girl’, followed by ’do you have any names picked out’? Picking a name for your baby is difficult to say the least, unless you’re one of those rare moms who fell in [...]