Comments on: My Top Five Names: A Baby Name Expert HATES One of Them … Do You?

By: @Jacqueiyc

@Jacqueiyc — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 08:45:43 +0000

Like the look of your web site …

By: Lisa-Marie

Lisa-Marie — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 17:39:07 +0000

Having named our little boy Edouard (born January 2nd 2011) I got that vicarious little pride kick out of this piece, it’s awfully uncool to feel validated as such but hey…

By: John Beans

John Beans — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 04:42:43 +0000

I wish I had used cool common words as names for my kids, like Seven or January. Awesome names that would rarely lead someone to ask something like, “Jim? Which Jim?”

By: JoANn

JoANn — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:34:21 +0000

I just seen your segment about baby names and the one name that I havent heard was the name that I have for my son. DOMINICK I picked that name cause of a show I have seen years ago called, “AirWolf”, Ernest Borgnine (sorry for spelling) was the machanic working on the plane. He put into that character ‘Dominck Santinee’ that so appealed to me I wanted my son to have it. Now I picked it more then 10 years before my son was born. I have never heard that name so I don’t think its as common and it can be shorten to be, ‘Dom’ or ‘Nick’. But with my son he is what I gave him, Dominick he also don’t want it to be shortten in any way. Here is the meaning of the name;
“Derived from the Latin Dominicus (belonging to a lord), which is from dominus (a lord, a master). Var: Domenic, Dominick, Dominyck, Dominyk, Domonic, Domonick.”

Hope this helps.

By: Marly

Marly — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:09:29 +0000

Did you know that there are over 4 million people in this country with the name Jim? It just seems to me that there’s enough of them already.

I agree with the Edward name. But please call him Edward. That “w” ads wonderful and weird to an otherwise boring and sometimes lacking in compassion Ed. Just my two cents!
Marly

By: Sherry

Sherry — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:11:23 +0000

Teresa…I like Edward Wachinski. He could slide easily into the role of author, film director or prince on a private island somewhere…definitely NOT the name of a dishwasher or hair stylist (not that there’s anything wrong with that)

By: Melanie

Melanie — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:02:14 +0000

I must share my “James” story with you. In my mid twenties, I met a way out of my league man who introduced himself as Jim. After buying me my 3rd dirty martini, Jim asked me if I would like to go to a Steelers game with him the next day. This would be the beginning of a all to good to be true relationship. Since I traveled alot for my job, I did not meet his parents for quite a few months later. Oh, but I will never forget when I did!! It was Christmas eve and Jim was adamant about me stopping by to partake in his massive Italian family’s Christmas eve festivities. A few minutes after my arrival I was being led by Jim to a “safe place” in the crowd where I would be greeted and judged as the non-italian I was. Jim left me on my own to get me a glass of wine when a cousin came up and introduced himself. He asked me if he could get me a drink and I politely stated that Jim was already taking care of that. All of a sudden, from across the room, I hear “Oh no you don’t darling…. He was James when he came out of me 31 years ago, and God Dammit he is James now” ” I didn’t go through 32 hours of labor for a little missy to come in an rename my boy”!!!!! I have no idea to this day how she could have heard my say Jim, over the noise. We have since laughed off the incident as her being “tipsy” and annoyed at James’s taste for “airheads”. Although she credited me with being “one” of her favorite lady friends of James’s , we did not last past Valentines Day!!!! So there you have it, take it from Rosalie of Pittsburgh, Pa, proud mama of James not Jim!

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 19:54:49 +0000

I’m not sure if anyone has mentioned it to you, but what about Adam? Its a nice strong name, a very passionate name. Or at-least a good middle name, which would be ironic because of Adams lack of middle name. I know about the struggles of naming a little one, my son is 5, his name is Daniel. Which can be shortened to Dan, which isn’t a bad name either. On the bad side though we have allot of old people wanting to call him Danny, which I hate. With the five names that you do have I would vote for none of the above, sorry but Buster even sounds better. Good luck and don’t forget the kid will probably just want to change it when their a teenager anyways.

By: Jim (oops) James Himes

Jim (oops) James Himes — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:11:40 +0000

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By: James

James — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:03:01 +0000

I feel qualified as an expert on names due to my past occupations, Insurance help desk (over the phone), subsitute teacher (in three different Engish speaking countries), full time teacher (in two different countries) and now full time basketball coach. I deal with different names on mass all the time.

The Three Major No’s No’s

PLEASE do not go with a name that is “common” and then for some added spice spell it different. No more Emmelee(s) or Airyon(s) or Andruw(s) they are spelt Emily, Aaron and Andrew

PLEASE do not go with a “common” name and just try to say it different.

and if you go with a name of a city, state, country, plant or anything else that is already a noun, PLEASE make sure you spell it the same way.

Thank you