Baby names

When we search for the name for our baby, there are many sites from which we can take a little inspiration. One of them is history, as we mentioned a few weeks ago when we shared names for boys and girls inspired by the Renaissance.

The National Institute of Statistics (INE) released a few days ago the data of the most frequent names in Spain, with Antonio and María Carmen who take the cake. But the most frequent names correspond to people over thirty years old and the vast majority over fifty.

Although it is not logical, it cannot be avoided: one of the things that excites us the most when we find out that we are going to be parents is to imagine what name we are going to give it. When deciding it, there are many factors that influence, such as the names of our ancestors, those of a certain language, mythological ...

In a globalized world like the one we live in, trends are also becoming universal and it is not uncommon for the names parents choose for their babies on the other side of the world to also sound familiar to us on this side of the ocean.

As we can remember from our classes in school, the Renaissance is that period of transition between the Middle Ages and the Modern Age, and in which a European cultural and social movement emerged in Florence, Italy, breaking with the dark ages. That is to say, a rebirth.

Choosing the baby's name is not an easy task, but it is always something that future dads are very excited about.

Choosing your daughter's name can be an odyssey if you don't have it clear before pregnancy. Even if you are clear about it, you can have problems, because the decision is a matter of two and sometimes the other can tell you that of "no, I know someone who is called that and ..." and then you have to find another name, sometimes even by going to books or lists of names.

The popular baby name website Nameberry has released the list of the most popular baby names of 2015 (in English) based on searches registered during the first half of the year.