You told your family and small circle of friends. “My guess is it’s gone hand-in-hand with the rise of social media,” says Slagen, referencing the common practice of announcing your child’s name on Instagram, often with personalized Etsy merch. Blame it on Reagan’s “ cult of rugged individualism” or perhaps, your phone.
“It’s a form of flattery.”īaby name gurus guess that the topic has gained massive popularity because of our cultural fascination with uniqueness. “I think it’s fun to have someone analyze you and your partner’s taste and come up with something that suits you,” she says. So far, she estimates she’s done close to 100 consultations, some with people who weren’t even expecting a child at the time. She offers three packages: a video consultation with 16 baby name options for $99, an eight-name package with extensive name analysis for $175, and 16-name package with name analysis for $250. She’s been obsessed with baby names for as long as she can remember in elementary school she’d fill journals with the names of her future children and discuss her favorites with her sister. “For some people, is naturally a fun process, and for others, it’s actually very stressful, because they haven’t spent the last 30 years of their lives thinking about baby names,” she explains. Their accounts are called things like and many of whom now have paid consulting businesses where they help parents-to-be make one of the biggest choices of their lives.Ĭolleen Slagen, the nurse practitioner behind says that she’ll sometimes get comments from people asking why anyone in their right mind would pay someone else to name their baby. Baby name inspiration TikToks have gone ever more niche: You can find viral videos that suggest “old money” names (Caroline, Elizabeth, Charlotte), “main character” names (Blaze, Arrow, Falcon), or “aesthetic” names (Rowan, Wren, Atlas).
They reveal baby names they liked but didn’t use, and baby names they never want to see again they predict famous influencers’ baby names ( sometimes with terrifying accuracy) and what names will soon be all over every daycare’s class list. On TikTok, a slew of creators have built followings of tens of thousands discussing baby name trends, and crucially, baby names to avoid because they’re trendy. #viral #mumsoftiktok #pregnancy #mumlife #aesthetic #tiktok ♬ I'll Be Waiting - If you ever want to make things right - Cian Ducrotīaby names, it seems, have never been more crucial to get right.
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