Happy Baby Names: Cheery choices for your child

Updated Fri Oct 07 2011

Happy Baby Names: Cheery choices for your child

With gloomy and depressing headlines hitting the news every day about international trouble spots and the tanking economy, what’s a forward-looking, optimistic baby namer, who wants to project a warm, welcoming, positive sense of the world to her innocent little newbie, to do?

Here are a few strategy suggestions.

1. PICK A NAME WITH A HAPPY MEANING. There are lots of choices that mean or connote happiness, hope, friendliness and good luck. These happy baby names include,

For girls

For boys

2. PICK A NURSERY RHYME NAME. The innocence of bygone childhood could be recaptured by returning to a simpler Mother Goosey name.

Girls

Boys

3. PICK A NAME FROM THE LAND OF DISNEY. If, indeed, Disneyland is the happiest place on earth, what better domain to pick a happy-ending name from? Among the many to choose from:

Girls

Boys

4. PICK A VIRTUOUS NAME. Despite all obstacles, you want your child to be truthful, loyal, kind, honest and prudent. You can telegraph that positive message from the get-go by choosing a name such as:

About the Author

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 Instagram, Twitter 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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