Friday, October 9, 2009

Baby Names : Changing with the time.

Baby is the most beautiful gift provided by God. And baby is also most valuable part of any parents. Every parent wants their baby names to be beautiful as well as sweet.

With the change of time the mode of keeping baby names are also changing. There was a time when keeping baby names were solely dependent on religious leaders (Though these practices are still very much prevalent in some parts of the world). After the religious leaders it’s the elder ones who played great role in keeping baby names. According to them the baby names should be auspicious because they believed baby names influence baby’s life.

But now in modern time religious leaders and elders one has taken back seat in keeping name of any baby. Now following trends are prevalent.

  1. Name after film actor and actress: Now keeping names after popular film actor and actress has become very popular. There was a time when you could easily identify their caste after knowing the name. But now days it has become very difficult to recognize their origin or cast on the basis of name. Julia, Angelina, Sahrukh Khan Etc, name can be head now a days.
  2. Names after Players: Few parents also keep their baby names after successful and popular players. For example in Asia, people keep their baby names after Cricket players, while in Europe baby names are kept after popular soccer players. While in America, there is no dearth of names after Tennis players.
  3. Short Names without any origin: There are few types of names which do not have any origin yet, these are very popular. For example, Chintu, Mintu, Shintu, does not have any origin but still in the town of India particularly such names are very popular.