Baby name ideas? 👶🏻

As a general rule, look at the names that were most popular in the last couple years and steer clear of them. My son was in a grade of like sixty kids with five variations of Sophie!

[b]https://www.babycenter.com/baby-names/most-popular/top-baby-names-2023[/b]
I see Sophia is still #5. Give it a rest!!

Names that are going extinct:
[b]https://nameberry.com/list/761/extinct-baby-names[/b]
Yeah, Adolph is still unpopular! Good to know!!

Pamela is a pretty name for a girl, and rare, too! "1804th most popular girls name" according to the uniqueness analyzer.
[b]https://datayze.com/name-uniqueness-analyzer[/b]

Verlin or Verlyn, meaning "true" is a boy's name. Short, sweet, and extremely rare!

I'm fond of Roman history, and there are some great names to mine there. Some may have come from old names of the month: Quintus, Sextus, Septimus, Octavius, (those are the masculine forms; replace 'us' with 'a' for the feminine.) No, don't name a daughter Sexta!

Some girl names from Ancient Rome: Lucia, Gaia, Marcia, Publia, Paulla, Quinta, Titia, Tiberia. Again you can swap 'a' for 'us' to get the masculine forms. Beware, Tiberius was a lousy emperor.

Cicero, Cato, and Julius were great orators. Sulla, Scipio, and Trajan were great generals. Augustus and Hadrian were great emperors (Yo, Hadrian).