Baby names: the new top 10

Tools - Baby Name Finder

The art of naming your child

8 Apr Kid's names' are such a source of anxiety, aren’t they? Some people are tight-lipped about their names, thinking it best not to offer them out there too early for fear of ridicule.

Year's worst celebrity baby names

15 Dec Name and shamed... Bronx gets the thumbs down but Brangelina's choice of Vivienne and Knox is a twin win.

A no-stress guide to baby names

22 Jan There's no way around it - every baby needs a name. It isn't always an easy decision, but with these tips it can be a fun one.

The name game: A world of pain?

18 Mar Joseph Kelly wonders whether nicknames are just harmless monikers, or do they trap people into certain periods of their life?

The modern joys of baby naming

29 Jan When times are tough, we must make our own fun. And one of the best sources of free entertainment I know is a game called Thinking Up Imaginary Names of Anglo Baby Boomer Couples. Like Pamela and Roger, Judy and Simon, Kay and Malcolm.

Choosing a traditional or unique baby name

26 Nov With gossip magazines and celebrity obsession at an all-time high, are traditional names a thing of the past? With Jamie Oliver, the Jolie-Pitts, Sir Bob Geldof, TomKat and Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow as inspiration, young parents are certainly more daring when naming their babies than their own parents were.

2008's most popular baby names

15 Dec It's a name that is solid, masculine, easy to spell, and easy to love - and parents don't give a damn if everyone else feels the same way.

Baby name checklist

26 Nov Whilst your child can change their name by deed poll in the future it probably isn't what you want to envision during the baby naming process. Here are six points to consider when you put pen to paper and narrow it down to a shortlist.

Tools for finding a baby name

26 Nov We’ve all browsed though baby name books, searching every one of those pages for one of those baby names to jump out at us. But since the internet has become dominant, the information superhighway has become clogged with baby-name suggesting websites that it’s almost impossible to decipher which ones are any good, and which ones aren’t.