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Lesedi is a name that in Tswana means “light” or “light sent from god” literally meant as “star”. My friend and colleague Khoketsho and I would often sit up late at night and drink wine and talk about poetic names for our children before I was married. When Lesedi was born, it was my last […]

When I found out we were having a baby boy, we knew his name would be Noah James. I found out that I was pregnant after 7 months of trying. My husband was so excited. We immediately started to research names for a boy or a girl. It didn’t really go as easily as we […]

I am currently 28 weeks pregnant with my first child and was so exited to find out I’m having a girl. I’m a single mother, her father left when I was about 6 weeks pregnant, and was going through a very difficult time in my life mentally having just been diagnosed with severe depression and […]

My baby naming story is of my third child. About 4 months into pregnancy, I had a dream, a very detailed , vivid dream. I was reading the local newspaper and it said “Mr. and Mrs. Mauldin welcomed their new daughter Skyler Rain last Sunday. Mother and baby are both well, she weighed 7.0 lbs.” […]

This is the story of how we named our first child. My husband and I have been together since 10th grade. When we were 18, we decided that we wanted to be married and have kids. We hypothetically decided to name our daughter Heather, which was both of our favorite girls name. Heather was popular […]

Throughout my entire pregnancy, my husband and I could’ not decide on any names for boys. We had plenty of ideas for girls but just couldn’t settle on a boy’s name.  As we did not know the sex of our baby, it was important for us to at least have some ideas. In the running […]