Creating baby names is fun and can be done in lots of ways. The only limit is your imagination!

We all that some babies grow up loving their names and some don't.

Digby Jones, author of "I Hate My Name!" helps you discover if the name you give your baby will cause problems ... Click here for a look at  Digby's ebook.

Techniques for Creating Baby Names

Ananyms: Names Spelled Backwards

Take a name you like and reverse the letters. Heaven spelled backwards is becoming a popular baby name -- Nevaeh (pronounced Nev-AY-uh).

Anagrams

Creating a baby name with anagrams is great fun! Take the tile letters from the game of Scrabble and combine words in different ways. Take a word like "satin" and rearrange the letters to make a name -- like Tasin or Tinsa. Use any word you like that has a meaning for you.

Acronyms:

This is a fun method for creating baby names! Find a phrase, a line of poetry, or a grouping of words that is meaningful to you and use the first letter of each word to form an acronym that can be used as a name.

One couple named their baby girl "Dahly from David And Helen Love You. A young man named Boothe said his name stands for Born Out Of Two Hearts Embracing. Isn't love great!

Telescoping:

Drop letters from words while creating a baby name you like. Gordon Savage can make Gorav. Sarah Rockey can become Sky.

From the Father's Name:

Instead of giving your baby the same name as his father, or calling your child "Junior", change the father's name a bit. Dale could become Dallin for a boy or Dallie for a girl. From Ronald, create a baby name like Ronin for a boy or Roni for a girl. Jonathan can become Jonan, Jonette, or Joni. Now you're getting good at creating a baby name!

From the Mother's Name:

A popular way of creating a baby name for a boy after his mother is to use her maiden name. This was common practice in the late 19th century -- Rawley, Ward, Cole, Quinn, and Taylor are some examples. Or you can change the mother's name into a name appropriate for a boy -- Mary becomes Marley, Marles, Myles, Martin .. Okay how about a girl? Creating a baby name like Moire (pronounced "Mary" in Ireland) or Mari is easy to do! 

Combinations:

Take the mother's and father's names and combine when creating a baby name. Avard and Elizabeth ore Aveli (for a girl) or Elav (for a boy). Dale and Glennys might be Danys or Dalen. See what fun it can be?

Re-Spelling:

Now for creating a baby name by respelling ... Take a name like Marianne and spell it Mary Anne. Take Louellen and spell it Luelen. Katlin might be KatLyn. Carol could be Karol. You might like to use apostrophes -- Mad'son instead of Madison or K't'lyn for Katelyn.

When it comes to creating a baby name, anything goes! You'll find names everywhere ... designers' clothing, perfumes, colors, months of the year, other languages, provinces, and states. The sky's the limit!

Think about these things when creating a baby name

Okay, so here's my warning! Be careful when you select a name. You don't want your child being ridiculed and hurt just because you had fun creating baby names. Teasing from classmates hurts a child as much today as it did when you were a child.

Teachers have a difficult time pronouncing complicated names. People have a difficult time remembers which person has which ending of their name -- Jenna, Jennifer, Jenae, Jenny, Jenner. Every day of my life I've had to tell people how to pronounce and spell my name: Glennys -- Glen-iss, rhymes with Dennis. G-l-e-n-n-y-s, no apostrophe before the "s". Nope, not Gladys, Glynas, Glenice, Glenis, Glenys, Gillas, Glenda -- on and on. It gets tiring. Names that are impossible to pronounce will only bring grief from teachers and teasing from classmates.

Names that are difficult to spell and pronounce will be misspelled and mispronounced throughout the child's entire life and on their tombstone. Creating a baby name that is unique makes them unique -- TRUE -- but it can become painful.

Jonny Cash sang a song about "A Boy Named Sue" -- it's funny, but it's a nightmare for the boy with a girl's name. Somehow girls can have a boys' name and it's not quite such a nightmare.

A girl named Jeremy isn't ostracized as much as a boy named Evelyn. "I tell ya, life aint easy for a boy named Sue". (Jonny Cash). So be kind to your baby. You need to take great care when creating a baby name.

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