You may be some way down the track, and had the tests, and know that it's a boy. So, the next step is to choose the perfect name! But how do you go about picking the right name for a baby boy?

Well, there are a number of ways of going about this. In many families it is common practice for the firstborn son, to be named after the father. And in some families, they take it to even greater extremes. For example, heavyweight boxing champion George Foreman, has several sons and daughters, all of whom are called George!

But what happens if you don't want to call your son George ;) Well, fear not, because there are several other ways that you can go about picking the right name for your new son. One common method is to base it on naming fashions. So, for example, when a particular Hollywood star is riding high, then their name tends to feature very prominently in the naming strategies of many new mothers. So, for example, Brad has been a much more popular name within the last 15 years, simply because of the film star Brad PItt.

It is interesting to see this popularity index of names reflected over the years. Going way back for example, into the Victorian era, then it was more common for Bible names, such as the names of the prophets, to be more popular. And even today, this tends to go in waves, with names coming in and out of fashion, seemingly at will. So it is important to give your son a name that he will be able to live with, regardless of what the future holds. For example, in Germany in the 1930s, one of the most common first names for a boy was Adolf, and yet you can bet that going forward in time it has not maintained its popularity!

Another strategy, is to base names on the weather or the world around you. So in this case, then names such as River and Sky are more common. These may sound a little new age! But in truth, they do have certain advantages. For example they tend to be quite asexual, and quite unusual, and hence you can always be guaranteed that your son will stand out in a crowd. However, a word of advice, don't do like the Johnny Cash song "A Boy Called Sue" and name, your son with a girl's name. That would be just two cruel!

Sometimes then the best strategy is just to go for a name that you like, and hope that your son learns to like it too!