Junior’s Moniker Could Be Just a Mouse Click Away

If you’re willing to trust a strange Web page to come up with plane tickets to Vegas, why not go online to find a name for your baby as well?

The Parent Soup site’s new “Find-O-Matic� option (https://channel.parentsoup.com/babyname/) will suggest names based on your choice of gender, number of syllables, first letter, religion and ethnicity.

You can then click on any of those suggestions for details; it informed me, for instance, that “Robert� is the 25th most popular boys’ name and is of Teutonic, English, Welsh, Swiss, Scottish, Irish, French and Polish origin. The name finder--based on a program developed last year by Arlington, Va.-based Names and Planes Interactive--does have its limits; I couldn’t find any two-syllable Japanese-Hebrew names, and I don’t think it will let you name your boy Sue either.

Elsewhere, the site offers a “Finder Potpourri� listing offbeat monikers and a “Popularity Finder� that may keep your little tyke from being made fun of in her first-grade class.

* Rob Pegoraro can be reached at rob(at)twp.com.