Top 10 Tips:

1. Have you checked the initials?

So your surname is Green and you want to call your daughter Dianne Olivia !

2. Nicknames are a part of life?

Probably best not to call your son Richard!

3. How does it sound?

Don’t forget you will be saying it rather a lot over the coming years!

4. Check the meaning!

I would imagine you would want something positive.

5. Is it easy to spell and pronounce.

You could save your kid a whole life of headaches right now!

6. Are they a boy or girl?

Make it obvious and save their embarrassment.

7. Consider popularity?

It just might not be so trendy in 20 years time!

8. Avoid top 10 lists.

You probably don’t want your child to have the same name as four other kids in their class.

9. There will always be Stereotypes.

Best avoided, it will be a very long time before the name Adolph makes the top 50.

10. Do you love the name?

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