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Best Baby Name Advice Ever?

The Nameberry Question of the Week: What is the best baby name advice you’ve been given–and where did it come from?

What was the advice and did/will you act on it?

Was it given by a friend or family member?

Did you read it in a book or magazine article?

Was it advice on a website–from a blog or from friends on a message board (nameberry’s, we hope!)?

Linda Rosenkrantz

Linda Rosenkrantz is the co-founder of Nameberry, and co-author with Pamela Redmond of the ten baby naming books acknowledged to have revolutionized American baby naming. You can follow her personally at InstagramTwitter and Facebook. She is also the author of the highly acclaimed New York Review Books Classics novel Talk and a number of other books.

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