Want to know what the top baby names in the UK were last year? Well, I found these statistics quite interesting. The top ten names for boys in 2007 were: Jack, Thomas, Oliver, Joshua, Harry, Charlie, Daniel, William, James and Alfie. Interestingly, Mohammed came in at number 17.

For girls, the top ten names were Grace, Ruby, Olivia, Emily, Jessica, Sophie, Chloe, Lily, Ella and Amelia

Interestingly, in 1934 in the UK, the top five boy’s names were John, Peter, William, Brian and David, while the top girl’s names for the same year were Margaret, Jean, Mary, Joan and Patricia.

There were 669,000 babies born in the UK in 2006 while 502,000 died.

If you are having a baby and have decided upon the name, then why not send a message into eternity that announces the arrival of this very special person to the rest of the Universe. After all, your child will become a national citizen of the country of birth, but also in the bigger scheme of things your child will be part of the Universe.

So why not send your child’s name and birth details into eternity with a message from SentForever that will quite literally be sent forever.

I recently blogged about the Pale Blue Dot picture and mankind’s tenuous existence on the solidified outer crust of a blob of molten rock which is hurtling through the void of space. Which kind of puts into perspective the fact that we are pretty damn fortunate to actually exist in the first place.

You know in the newspapers they have those announcements pages full of the notices of births, deaths and marriages that have occurred recently? Well, a good friend of SentForever gave birth to a baby boy on recently. So we decided to send her a special message. But what to say?

Obviously the new-born is an addition to her family and an addition to the local community, but who can say what this child is going to achieve in the future? Not just for himself, his family or the local community, but for all mankind. And the Universe?

This amazing little boy is actually a new born soul in the entire Universe and should be welcomed as such. In the whole of the Universe there is not another soul like him. And I’m sure that in some distant galaxy on some remote planet another being has been born (as we call it) too. Exactly what that being is, or looks like, I have no idea. But I don’t think this entire Universe was created just for us.

How that distant race celebrates the creation of another of their kind I can’t even imagine – but whoever or whatever you are – welcome to the Universe.

Back to our friend’s little boy. We transmitted a SentForever eternal message for him that welcomed him into the Universe and into the amazing world of which he is now part. I’m not going to tell you the full message as that was personal to him and his parents, but our friend told us the words were so emotional that it brought tears to their eyes.

Maybe we should celebrate the birth of every new-born baby by welcoming them into the Universe. After all, they are a part of it – and who knows, maybe a very significant part….