How’s it different naming a pet and a baby?

There’s less and less difference between pet names and baby names.

The most popular puppy names of 2013, according to the website Vetstreet, include a lot of names trendy for babies: Bella, Daisy, and Sadie for females; Max, Cooper, and Jack for males.  Cat names are also trending increasingly toward the human: Chloe and Nala, Oliver and Charlie.

All kinds of pets from hamsters to goldfish are more likely to be called by baby names these days than by a moniker like Fluffy or Fido.

And then there are the names formerly reserved for pets that are starting to be heard more and more on human babies: Bear and Coco, Bandit and Buster and Bo.

So we can’t help but wonder: With so much name crossover, how is it different choosing a pet name and a baby name?  Of course there’s more weight behind deciding what to name a human child, but how are the considerations different?  If you’ve given your pets human names, how are they different from the names you’d choose for a baby?