Tips For Choosing The Perfect Baby Name

Your Computer Keyboard Picked Your Baby’s Name

Spooky but true: a new study has found that due to the “QWERTY effect” — a preference to use letters typed on the right side of the keyboard — we’re choosing baby names with more of those letters. Case in point: the names Violet, Olivia, Liam, and Noah are all popular, and typed mostly on the right.

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Interesting Baby Name Facts

We Choose ‘Big’ Names for Boys and ‘Small’ Ones for Girls. Stereotypical though it is, many parents want big, strapping boys and small, feminine girls … and their name choices reflect that. A British study has found that parents choose boy names that “sound large” (typically conveyed with the vowels a and o, like “James” or “Joel”) while parents choose girl names with “small” sounds (typically conveyed with the vowels i and e, as in “Jill” or “Emily”).

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