What baby name web sites are good? Any quirky ones you recommend

[cityangel]

I am trying somewhat unsuccessfully to find an unusual short name for a boy or girl and don't know where to start...

[LieselVonTrapp]

we used this
www.babynames.com/

[dizzydixies]

www.babynamesworld.co.uk

go onto babycentre forums for babynames, they know every name there honestly, these people must live eat and breath baby names!

[dizzydixies]

www.thinkbabynames.com/

www.namenerds.com/uucn/

can I also suggest the credits of programmes you watch - my dh used to laugh at me as I was annoyed if he turned tv over before the credits were done lol

[Mavornia]

www.behindthename.com is great - and the meaning and history of the names seems more reliable than on some other sites

[cityangel]

thanks these are really helpful

[minster]

The notwithoutmyhandbag name board bigbadbabynames.net/forum/index.php has an advice borad. They are complete snobs & will be only to happy to say what everyone else is too polite to

[babybaby3]

You know what with our two pregancies we scoured the earth thinking of different names both times the two names that we named our children weren't the original ones that we set our hearts on...Good Luck...

[cityangel]

thanks for the advice

[frannied]

This is a mad names website - by a supposed 'nameologist'. This page gives grades in terms of how successful a person will be in various apects of life with their name!

namestructures.com/fname_report_cards.php

You can pay $9 dollars on the Name Tuning section and put whole names in, and it will give indepth info on the impact of a name on a person's life. It upset me actually, as when I put my daughter's name in, it more or less said she's end up as a 'substance abuser'. DH had to tell me to get a grip when I suggested we should change her name. I'm pleased to say I am over it now.

[fingerwoman]

oh you need this one, it's excellent nymbler

[fingerwoman]

erm, not sure what I did there lol

nymbler

[frannied]

I see my link didn't work -

here's a new link to the home page,
www.namepower101.com/
then go to the 'First Name Report Cards' section.
F x

[dotvicky]

Can't believe no-one's mentioned this one:

www.babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/lnv0105.html

Although it is US-based. But very shiny. :D

[BigBadMouse]

The one Dotvicky recommends is fab IMO

[cityangel]

right I'm going to check these out, many thanks

[cyteen]

I seem to remember reading the Not Without My Handbag name diss ages ago (before it had its own message board!) and really enjoying it until I got to a section cussing traditional Welsh names as made-up nonsense -the author proclaimed that no Welsh people ever named their kids things like Dilys, Arwen, Angharad, Eluned etc. citing the fact that they had met a few English people who claimed never to have known anyone with those names as evidence. It really ruined a good bitchfest for me - if you're going to act superior, at least get your facts straight before you start.

Umm, sorry, rant over