What names are you too chicken to name your babies? - Page 2

[Baby_Cakes]

Captain for a boy.  

[Siennaflower]

Noah for a boy, and Amaya fora girl.  I adore both names but they don't work well with our last name.  I also love Ayla for a girl from one of my favorite books (Clan of the Cave Bear) but dh doesn't care for it.

[copperfox]

I love the names Piper & Cinnamon, but I'd never feel comfortable giving my own kids these names.

[Smokering]

Sure! Our oldest is named Arwen. Our (for now) youngest is named after another Elven princess from another series of books, Arya (from "Eragon"). The search is on for a third Elven princess whose name begins with A. DH commented last night that we seem to have painted ourselves into a bit of a corner here.

Oh, pretty! Tolkien also had female Elves called Aredhel and Amarie: I'm not sure you could correctly call either of them princesses, but they were extremely high-born. :p
 

Briar Rose is lovely too. I know a wee girl named that (and her brother's called Fynn, which is also pretty awesome, although getting annoyingly trendy these days).

[Megan73]

Jasper (sounds a little fey with DH's alliterative last name), Magnus and Ronan.

I just try to imagine 1) yelling the name across the playground and 2) that person running for office some day.

[JollyGG]

I really lived the name Annabel. We have a family friend with that name. I just think it's pretty. An adult store opened in town and named the store Annabell's.

So that name went off of our list quickly.

[JollyGG]

Originally Posted by mclisa 

Scarlet - love it, but ever since a local strip club is named that...just can't use it.

Our local strip club carries the same name. If you recognize the adult store name above we are probably neighbors.

[tjjazzy]

Uriyah

Julian

Angel

(all for boys)

my hubby is too chicken. i'm not really. he doesn't like julian at all and i love it.

[tjjazzy]

i can't even begin to imagine how ELSE you could pronounce calliope but the proper way??? it's pretty phonetic.

Originally Posted by Snugglebugmom 

As for me, I love Calliope for a girl. Unfortunately no one knows how to pronounce it, and DH thinks it's pretentious.

[painefaria]

Originally Posted by tzs 

well, our last name is "stern" (is that disclosing too much? don;t stalk me now ) and there's a yiddish name that religious jews use fairly often "shterna." 

dh has been begging me to use that name because then using the nickname it would be "shterny stern."

actually it's kinda cute and i've had strong public opinion to use it but i don't know if i could do that to a kid....although i do know a "Goldie Gold."

I know a Frank Franko and he is the Fourth!

[Baby_Cakes]

For a long time I thought Calliope was pronounced "Cally-ope".  Then I looked it up!  I love, LOVE how the name is pronounced correctly but I can't get over the spelling.

And now it reminds me of Hermione.

[Hey Mama!]

Faraday-for a girl or boy.  If it was a girl I'd nick name her Daily. 

[catholic74]

I've always loved the french name MIREILLE, but I know no one in this country could pronounce it correctly, spell it correctly or appreciate it so forget it. I don't think my daughter would appreciate the aggravation.  But if I ever get a cat, I'm naming her mireille without a doubt!!!!   Cats have no worries!  

[beccamama31]

My kids' names are Rowan (dd) and Adrian (ds)..  and dh and I are trying to decide on our newest addition's name..

We really love Tristan , but I wonder if it's too many 'an' names.. We are most likely going to go with Tristan but I'm still thinking of other's as a backup.. 

[*bejeweled*]

I Sadie. But too many people name their pets Sadie. So that's our cat's name.

[Ravin]

DD has a Tolkien name: Luthien. We're planning on naming this one Elessar. Runner up on DH's list were Elendil and Bard; I like Feanor and Arathorn. Elessar seems to fit, though.

Tolkien is about the only literary source I've convinced DH of; there are others I like: Vanyel, from Mercedes Lackey's Mage trilogy, and Anakin from Star Wars; big a Star Wars fan as DH is, he wouldn't go for it. There are also a variety of Norse names I considered, but DH wouldn't go for. Most notably, Brand, and anything with Frey- as a root word. OTOH, he really wants a son named for him, and I refused, so I'm happy to compromise by going with another elf name.

[katelove]

Not a Star Wars fan but I love the sound of Anakin. I guess it qualifies as a name I wouldn't be brave enough to use though. Shame.

[minkajane]

Gwenhwyfar, from The Mists of Avalon. And yes, we'd spell it that way. DH loves it too, but we know that nobody would ever be able to spell it or know how to pronounce it. I love the name Twilight, but that stupid series has ruined it forever! Names that I love and would totally use are Kamen and Maribor (from my favorite Star Trek episode) and Lyra (from the His Dark Materials series). I especially love Lyra. It's my favorite girl's name, but DH just doesn't like it.

We're going with pretty unique names. For a girl, Eliana Kathleen (we'll call her Ellie Kat) and for a boy, Jack Tiberius.

[erigeron]

We considered Benjamin Kenobi (last name), so that he'd still have the normal first name and then kind of a lurking Star Wars name, but ultimately concluded we would be unable to take ourselves seriously if we did that.

[kcparker]

To OP, I have to tell you, Malcolm Reyolds Ourlastname was seriously bandied about in our house for a little while as an option for DS2, as was Carl Agathon Ourlastname. NERDS.

Names I liked that would not fly with DH: Stanhope and Theo.

Names that DH liked that would not fly with me: Cadmus, Solon, and Volker.