What name do you only pretend to like?

Updated Tue Jan 13 2015

True confession time: What name do you, did you, have you only pretended to like?

Maybe it was the name chosen by a family member or friend.

Or the name selected by a neighbor or someone you met online.

Or you might pretend to like a name that everybody else seems to like….except you really don’t.

Here’s where you can expose your own baby name fakery, and why you feel you had to pretend.

About the Author

Pamela Redmond is the cocreator and CEO of Nameberry and Baby Name DNA. The coauthor of ten groundbreaking books on names, Redmond is an internationally-recognized baby name expert, quoted and published widely in such media outlets as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Today Show, CNN, and the BBC. She has written about baby names for The Daily Beast, The Huffington Post, and People.

Redmond is also a New York Times bestselling novelist whose books include Younger, the basis for the hit television show, and its sequel, Older. She has three new books in the works.