Help this picky couple figure out names for their twins! - Page 2

[suprgrl]

I really do like your taste in names.

I know a little boy named Balin. I think its a great name!

Obviously we named our kids unusual names. My name is Ronna (pronounced like Donna but with an "R") and I have loved having an uncommon name (although I did go through a short phase in middle school of wanting to change my name to Laura), however I do like that it is not a completely weird or easily mispronounced name. Most people get it right the first time. My Russian last name, now that it a completely different story.

Anyway. Not to get too far off topic. YOU name your kids names that you will feel good about. I really don't like DS2's first name, but DH loves it. I do wish we could have come up with a name we both like, but DH works at a school for troubled boys, so most names I liked were not allowed....

[nuwavemomma]

Hi Maggie! I can't believe you guys are asking for help! How are you feeling?

I don't know Tolkien at all and it's really hard for me to think of first names without the mns. I'll try though.

Effie
Nola
Ida
Clementine
Beryl
Naomi

Jasper
Miller (would have been this baby's name)
Irving (would have been this baby's mn)

You're such a tough one! xo

[holyhelianthus]

Originally Posted by suprgrl

I really do like your taste in names.

I know a little boy named Balin. I think its a great name!

Obviously we named our kids unusual names. My name is Ronna (pronounced like Donna but with an "R") and I have loved having an uncommon name (although I did go through a short phase in middle school of wanting to change my name to Laura), however I do like that it is not a completely weird or easily mispronounced name. Most people get it right the first time. My Russian last name, now that it a completely different story.

Anyway. Not to get too far off topic. YOU name your kids names that you will feel good about. I really don't like DS2's first name, but DH loves it. I do wish we could have come up with a name we both like, but DH works at a school for troubled boys, so most names I liked were not allowed....

I so love you right now. :

Funny thing is I actually didn't choose DD2's name and had to have it grow on me. DH chose it after a song I hate.

Originally Posted by nuwavemomma

Hi Maggie! I can't believe you guys are asking for help! How are you feeling?

I know right? I'm starting to feel a little better, thanks.
How the heck have you been?

I don't know Tolkien at all and it's really hard for me to think of first names without the mns. I'll try though.

Effie
Nola
Ida
Clementine
Beryl
Naomi

Jasper
Miller (would have been this baby's name)
Irving (would have been this baby's mn)

You're such a tough one! xo

Jasper has been on our list before but since reading Twilight I am annoyed by it. I use to like Rosalie and Esme too. *sigh*
LOVE Clementine. For a few seconds while I was holding Olive after her birth I almost named her Clementine. I so love that name.

I know we are such pains in the rear.

[Ianthe]

I love Clementine too!!

[nuwavemomma]

Originally Posted by magstphil

I so love you right now. :

Funny thing is I actually didn't choose DD2's name and had to have it grow on me. DH chose it after a song I hate.


I know right? I'm starting to feel a little better, thanks.
How the heck have you been?


Jasper has been on our list before but since reading Twilight I am annoyed by it. I use to like Rosalie and Esme too. *sigh*
LOVE Clementine. For a few seconds while I was holding Olive after her birth I almost named her Clementine. I so love that name.

I know we are such pains in the rear.

I obviously did not get on the Twilight wagon. I'm so out of it - I was really thinking about getting Nick to let me name this baby Edith (nn Edie) until thankfully somebody told me that's a Desperate Housewives character, which I am also totally not familiar with at all... Glad someone told me!

I really like Clem for a boy too...

I'm huge and emotional, par for the course I guess. And G is on his second cold in three weeks. Somehow I have stayed healthy (knock on wood).

Glad to see you!

[beanma]

Just barging in 'cause I love to read name threads. I agree that Eleanor/Elanor/Elinor is going to be way too popular for your tastes. My dd2 is Ellie/Eleanor and we know quite a few Eleanors and Ellies.

Someone else on mdc has a ds with "Samwise" as a middle name I believe. I always thought that was a good one.

For boys I really don't like Hyrum/Hiram, etc. It's very similar to my dad's name (he would occasionally get misaddressed mail) and there was a street near our neighborhood with that name (with a "y" I believe). It always looked too much like Hymen to me. I do know a Hiram (named after his dad), but he goes by a nickname of his middle name. His dad also goes by the middle name.

I like Solomon all right. I know an Atticus and have heard it about a bit. Noam just reminds me of Noam Chomsky. If you're not naming after him it would be a bit like naming your kid Elvis and not be naming him after Elvis Presley. Well, probably not that extreme, but I'm sure he would get asked about Chomsky a lot even if only, "Noam? Oh, like Chomsky?"

Here are some I like:

Eamon
Maybe you'd like Nowell (NOW-el)?
Do you like Brigham at all?
Alden
Alder
I think Byrd could go for a boy, too, especially if you're Byrds fans.
Reed

For girls I do like Tessa and Byrd and Wren (though that's the baby in "Baby Blues" comic strip). I gotta run, but if any great girl names spring to mind I'll post back.

Good Luck!

[brightonwoman]

Originally Posted by magstphil

I said I wanted to name my daughter Lilith and people begged me to name her something "normal" like Sarah.

As a Jenni (who is married to a Dave) I can tell you these two people hated having names that were something normal.

Originally Posted by BethSLP

I still agree not to spell it Hyrum. Looks kree8tyv to me too. No one LDS will know this spelling.

On the other hand, everyone LDS (sunday school teachers, scout leaders, etc) is going to spell it hyrum, regardless of what spelling you choose...

Originally Posted by magstphil

We hadn't really thought dwarf names. I love Balin. Love Moria.

Come now, Thorin is one even *I* would go for!!

Originally Posted by magstphil

We had considered Nigel before but were thinking Nigel Nazgul. I so love Oscar but we already have an "O". Oscar Orthanc just rocks though. I don't know what is up with us and the darker middle names for boys. Weird.

Yeah, what is it with you and those dark names? Seriously, as a fellow Tolkien fan (though I come admittedly short of your devotion...) I can't imagine naming a child Nazgul--those are the ultimate corrupted evil guys--not what I want to name my son after anyway It's like you said about all your girls' names being chosen for their own reasons--because you loved them, not just because they had the same letter.

Originally Posted by magstphil

I really love Faramir. We were thinking Hyrum Henry Faramir. It's the only full boys name we have come up with.

Now Faramir is one awesome dude to be named after!

Of course, call me boring, but we just have a Samwise.


Hmm, so, I admit I'd probably work backwards...since their are more non-tolkien names than tolkien names, I'd find the tolkien ones that I loved and then find coordinating first names... or i guess really a list of each and then start making matches...
I'm not much help with coming up with more names for your list, but I can give my thoughts on a few that have been mentioned...

I Wren to a ridiculous degree. Hmm, that might mean it's too mainstream for you
Beryl is really different, but I do kinda like it...it's another semi-precious stone, but it's not so common like Ruby or Pearl or Garnet...
Honestly I like Elanor, though I agree everyone would mis-pronounce it...so i guess it just depends if you're ok with that. Maybe push it to middle-name status so that you can keep it in it's true state? That's what we've chosen to do with our ethnic names (Bjorn is pronounced "Byern" not "Byorn" but nobody this side of scandinavia knows that)
I kinda like Moria...it sounds like a lot of girls names to me though (mara, mona, moira, maria, etc). Hmm, Moira Moria, now THAT is a name that would bring on the teasing.



By the way, anytime someone gives you grief for your name choices, remind them that at least you didn't name your kids Adolph Hitler and Aryan (did you hear about that family? *shudder* I'm even a fair-skinned blue-eyed germanic-scandinavian and they scare me!)

[Marlet]

The first name I can think of for a boy is Truman. I just really like that one. That's all I got.

[holyhelianthus]

beanmama~ That is exactly why DH wants the name Noam. Yeah, I don't think so but I have to at least consider it, right?

Jenni~ You rock! Dh's name is Robert so he feels you on the "normal" names. That's why we don't want something like that. My mom's name was Debbie (no not Debra, Debbie) and both she and DH hated having 10 other kids with the same name in their class. Basically I don't want to be able to yell my kid's name out and have 3 come running. Sure that could happen with any name but some more than others, kwim?

I knew someone named Beryl whom I love. I didn't know it was a stone. Where have I been?

The dark Tolkien names was odd for us. We came up with those names with Mable when we still thought she could be a boy.

I thought of Elanor as a middle name. I like Eloise as well and thought Eloise Elanor was pretty but Rob vetoed it right away.

By the way, anytime someone gives you grief for your name choices, remind them that at least you didn't name your kids Adolph Hitler and Aryan (did you hear about that family? *shudder* I'm even a fair-skinned blue-eyed germanic-scandinavian and they scare me!)

no kidding! Actually what I usually tell people is that my favorite name for a girl is Lucifer and I came very close to naming Lilith that. And I'm not kidding.

[holyhelianthus]

DH and I talked on the phone a bit just now and we just really love Hyrum. We're pretty sure that is going to be one of our names if not our top pick. We have also agreed on honoring Hyrum Smith and keeping the spelling.

Buuuuuut his new top boy name is Zefram. I like it but I don't love it.

ETA- he wants me to let anyone who doesn't like it know that Zefram Cochrane will do amazing things for humanity and we should all be eternally grateful. :

[Ianthe]

Originally Posted by magstphil

I thought of Elanor as a middle name. I like Eloise as well and thought Eloise Elanor was pretty but Rob vetoed it right away.

I think Eloise is beautiful too.. That was one of my considerations if this baby was a girl (and we had decided on Amelia before we out the gender)

[holyhelianthus]

Amelia is such a gorgeous name.

[suprgrl]

Originally Posted by magstphil

Amelia is such a gorgeous name.

I love it too, but I worry that it is going to be one of those names that shoots to the top quickly like Ryan in the early 80's. I have been hearing this name all over the place: online, two friends just named their daughter Amelia, and even in a TV commercial!

[JERENAUD]

alphabetical

I don't know if you want to introduce another pattern, but what jumped out to me is that you already have L, M, and O names. I've seen a few "N" names already on this thread - finding K or P names for the 2nd twin would give you all 5 letters in a row. Either that or now you know which letters to avoid!!

Erica

[holyhelianthus]

Originally Posted by JERENAUD

I don't know if you want to introduce another pattern, but what jumped out to me is that you already have L, M, and O names. I've seen a few "N" names already on this thread - finding K or P names for the 2nd twin would give you all 5 letters in a row. Either that or now you know which letters to avoid!!

Erica

I was waiting for someone to bring this up. This was TOTALLY by accident! I didn't realize and neither did DH until our youngest was over a year old and my mom pointed it out to us.

[Pernillep]

Tell you DH I love Noam and my DH wants to use it too . Probably won't because we have to have names that will be pronounced the same in danish and english. There is a little boy in daycare named Noam and he is just the cutest.

I like Zefram but for some reason I think medication name when I read it. Probably different to hear it spoken.

Love your rules and bless you for having to name twins. We are having a hard time just naming our second. Can't agree on anything.

[Stacymom]

Just so you know, Tessa is becoming more and more popular in my area. I know two baby girl Tessas under a year old, so if you're avoiding trendy, you may want to steer clear.

[lookingforaname]

For we non-Tolkien familiar folk to add first names to. . . a quick google search for Tolkien baby names:

http://babynamesworld.parentsconnect...ien-names.html

I like:
Arwyn
Denethor
Elladan
Eowyn
Estel
Galadriel
Lorien
Luthien
Mirabella
Nessa
Pippen

[mischievium]

If you go with either Hazel or Hyrum, the middle name Halifirien might work. From this site: Halifirien Roh; Holy mountain; OE hali, from AS halig holy; Anglo-Saxon firgen [firyen] mountain; one of the beacon hills of Gondor. I just thought, being LDS, you might like something that means "holy mountain" (that, and there didn't appear to be a ton of "H" options).

Boys names:
Emery Elessar (name taken by Aragorn at his coronation)
Elliot Earendil
Ezra Elladan or Ezra Elendil
Ezekial, Elijah, or Ephraim with any of the middle names mentioned above

Girls names:
Eliza Evenstar -- Eliza seems to fit well with your DDs names, and I Evenstar.
(will add more as I think of them)

[lookingforaname]

Looking at my own list and brainstorming
Adelle Arwyn
Elanor Eowyn

(or any names that share the Arwyn and Eowyn so as twins they'd share the "wyn")