Choosing a baby name is no easy task . You want to strike the right balance of pleasing, interesting, and most of all, respecting your child and their future endeavors in the working world. I'm all for off-beat names, but you can only go so far before you're making life hard for your kid down the line. Remember when Gwyneth Paltrow named her daughter “Apple” and everyone freaked out? Boy, how far we have come as a culture since then. Now Apple seems like a comparatively normal name compared to…

Having similar names in the same family can be a little confusing . Sometimes there are so many Johns that one of them needs to become “Johnny,” one of them needs to be “Big John” or “Little John," depending on their age and size, and one of them just needs to go by their middle name, Stew. But we compromise for each other because we're family, and ultimately everyone has the right to name their baby whatever they'd like to. Odds are, you're not going to have a totally unique baby name unless y…

Sharing the same as someone can be a huge form of respect . New parents often name their babies after a relative who has passed or someone in their lives who they want to honor. That way the child can carry on their legacy. However, having the same name as a peer can be confusing. I remember being in grade school with 4 different Olivias in my class. One of them had to go by Olive and the rest of them scrapped it out, using the first initial of their last name. It was a logistical mess, especia…

It's an unfortunate reality

That's really sneaky

What great parents

What happened to Artie?

Not everyone loves surprises

Is she justified?

Is it that bad?

No name is safe…

She should have thought that through

Bad idea

While we don't normally need an excuse to look at cute animals on the internet, but we'll take one when it comes up. And boy, did one come up this weekend. Twitter user @adamgreattweet (who happens to live up to his handle) penned a viral tweet about the differences between dog names and cat names. Despite the fact that it was a wild (and harmless) generalization, the quip went viral, racking up over 36k retweets and almost 500k likes.

Apple's got nothing on these