Blog topic suggestions?

Do you have any blog topics you've been thinking would be interesting for us to address?
Also, if you have any special expertise, or a really interesting story about how you decided on your child's name or about your own name--we're always open to guest blog possibilities.

- Baby namers remorse and/or changing a baby's name after they are born. There have been several members who have gone through this and it always seems to attract a lot of interest.

A few ideas for blog posts I'd like to read:

-names of the Renaissance period, especially female names
-names in operas, operatic names
-names of Colonial America (founding fathers & mothers' names)

Thanks!

Deirdre--if you search the blog archive, you'll see that we did do one on opera names back on April 16th...

I'd love to read a blog on the most unusual and surprising names in the most cool areas of Manhattan, West L.A., and London. I'm sure that new name trends emerge every year, so that would be interesting.
I will put on my thinking cap and see if I can think of some more ideas.

I loved the blog today on birth announcements in Dublin and would like to see more announcements or popularity rankings from different countries.

I don't have any suggestions for things for you to feature, I think you're a lot more creative than I would have been already ^^

I can offer some expertise on Norwegian names though, or names only used in Norway for some reason...
I'm working on a list of names only used in Norway/of Norwegian origin that would fit into an English speaking world like Ovidia or Ellisiv, I'd be happy to share, although I only have the girls ready as of today.... ^^
Keep up the good work!

I think that it would be interesting to do a blog at the beginning of each zodiac "season" on baby names that would fit the sign. Fire, Earth, Water, Air... but that fit the qualities of each sign. Maybe split it into two days for girls and boys.

I would like see a blog on the differences in the naming styles in every region of the U.S.

brooklynpaige wrote:I would like see a blog on the differences in the naming styles in every region of the U.S.

I second that. I love reading about names that distinctly "Californian" or "Texan" or "New York" or "Midwest" or "Southern"... "Southwest"... etc.

Not just names that are the most popular in those areas (even though that would be interesting), but names that are a stereotype for the regions.