When you name a child, you aren’t just naming a baby.

You’re titling a human soul.

One’s name might be the most important set of words to one’s very being. It is a badge one always carries, and in its shadow one always lives. This necessitates that parents consider not just the aesthetics of a name, but its genuine meaning, origin, history, and orthography.

After obtaining a degree in history and linguistics from the University of Tennessee and placing first at its student linguistics research symposium, my research in onomastics has led me to correspond with dozens of language institutions, ranging from the Basque Euskaltzaindia to Hawaii’s ʻAha Pūnana Leo. In 2024, I published an etymologically driven Barnesian word-book, and I now offer services as a name consultant.

Don’t give in to fad names or tragedeighs. Discover a name that will last, tailor-made to your surname, hopes, and circumstances, and which will lead a child to adulthood in dignity and harmonious sound.