You’ve started getting the nursery ready. You know whether it is a boy or girl. You even bought a couple baby name books, but you just can’t seem to come up with any unique baby names. It’s time to put away the baby books, and start exploring.

Unique baby names are not going to be found in a book. Once a name enters the book you already know one thing, it is about to become a much more common name. When you’ve decided you want to step away from the ordinary, you’ll discover finding names can be a great game.

Why don’t you try finding an out of this world name? One interesting place to look for unique baby names is in a listing of star names, not movie stars, real stars. You can find names like Saiph, Sirrah, or Celaeno. With 100′s or even thousands of star names available to review, you’re going to find many interesting names to get your mental gears turning.

Another unusual place to get ideas for unique baby names is in the chemical book of elements. Iridium could become Iridia, for a cute girls name. For a boy, Mendelevium could be Delevi, on second thought that looks very close to Devilish, maybe not a good idea. The idea to to use these unusual words to spur your imagination, and help you come up with new and unique baby names.

One fun place to help you spur your imagination is a list of animal names. Don’t just look at the names, but start thinking about their traits. Brainstorm ideas for unique baby names, you’ll be surprised what you come up with.

Hopefully you did not throw away your book of names. Now that your mind is churning and exploring, return to your book of names and put on your thinking hat. Start taking parts of names and combining them with parts of other names. You’ll be amazed at the number of unique baby names you will create. You could combine Rhiannon and Roselani, and come up with Rhialani, Liannon, Olani, and who knows how many more.

Unique baby names really come down to one thing, play. You just need to play with every name, every idea, and see what you come up with. If you’re still stuck, get a few friends together, and play these games together. They are going to see ideas which completely slipped past you.

The most important part of this entire exercise, write down every name you come up with that you’re even partially interested in. Come back to your list a few days later, and start throwing away the names which are a definite no, and looking again at the ones which you are interested in. You may come up with even more ideas as you review your list.

Getting out of your normal way of thinking, and spending some time in exploring and creating, is sure to help your discover many unique baby names. Your problem this time may be choosing which of those great names to use.