What's New? Preston Acrostic Poem

There are thousand and thousands of names out there in the world, so we create Acrostic Name Blessing Poems for them when they are ordered instead of trying to guess which names we should do first.

Today we had an order for the name "Preston". Preston means "From the Priest's Town". In general, English names that end with "ton" are going to be "From the ______ Town", because "ton" is the shortened form of "town." So in this case, "Pres" is the shortened form of "Priest". It's pretty obvious once you see the pattern. The most recent Social Security Administration data for the U.S. puts "Preston" at #114 in terms of popular names for babies born.

Picking a good baby name

The Northwest Harold (a newspaper for a community in Illinois) recently ran an article about picking baby names. Some of the advice given echos what we offer in our book "Acrostic Name Blessings", namely

“You’re not just naming a baby, but the adult the baby will become,” said Linda Rosenkrantz, co-author of eight baby name books.

So choose carefully: do use a name that is meaningful, creative, and yet functional. Avoid clever spelling that is actually just confusing. For more detail, read Chapter One "The Value of a Good Name" and Appendix A "Tips on Choosing a Baby Name".

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