The Blog
Two kinds of writing: how to decide, and what the records show once you look at them.
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Toddler Years Middle-Name Regret and the Do-Over Fantasy You keep wishing you had made the middle name the first name. How common that particular regret is, and what you can change without any paperwork at all. -
The Two of You The Name Fight Was a Preview of Everything You agreed on the name. Then it hit you that every decision from here is going to feel like that. What the naming process taught you, and how to reuse it. -
Toddler Years Naming the Second Baby Is a Different Problem The first one was hard but fun. This one has to sit beside a name that already exists, and you have already spent your favorite. Which constraints are real. -
The Two of You When You Cannot Agree the Same Way Twice Last time you compromised and it worked. This time neither of you will move, and you are both saying "I gave in last time." How to negotiate a second name. -
Advice How to Choose a Baby Name You Both Agree On The problem is almost never the names. It is that the two of you are running different processes without having said so.
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Name Stories Why Two Sites Give You Two Different Meanings Most of the time both sites are right. They are answering different questions and neither has said which.
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Name Stories The Hundred-Year Rule: Why Old Names Come Back A name has to stop belonging to anyone you know before it can sound fresh again — and that takes about a century.