What names are you too chicken to name your babies? - Page 26

[Logan]

DaisyO how do you pronounce it?

[DaisyO]

Originally Posted by Logan 

DaisyO how do you pronounce it?

it would be "kwoppi", with an o sound and not an a sound.  I know, it would be just plain wrong if it were pronounced with an a.

At least that is what I think from my limited understanding of German (restricted to watching Fassbinder movies and looking at the subtitles).

[Beverly]

"Qu" is a "kv" sound in German. :)

[DaisyO]

Oh right.  Quappi.  That's how I have heard German speakers say it...ever heard of a Quappi? 

thanks!

DO

[Smokering]

Wren has always struck me as THE MDC name. I don't think I've ever met or heard of a person called Wren outside MDC, but here, they're all over the place! Wren and Sage and Orion. (Which, now I see it written down, totally looks like "Sage and Onion" - I shoulda called my kids that!)

I think I was influenced by MDC when I named DD Rowan - there are plenty of Rowans of both sexes here, but in real life (in New Zealand) everyone looks blank and asks me to repeat it. Sometimes I say "Rowan, like the tree", but then they look even blanker. I still love the name, but we don't tend to get positive responses on it too often. Unexpectedly, though, everyone seems to like Miles (DS' name).

[vivica2]

our daughter is Dae but her nickname is Daisy! i super love it. :)

if we have any more girls they will be (in order) Rosalee, and Lilyanna....... daisy, rose and lily! (now to convince dh i need 2 more girls. ;)

we have tentatively decided on Miro Kingston for a boy.   what do you think of it?

-viv-

[BubbleMa]

Originally Posted by Smokering 

Wren has always struck me as THE MDC name. I don't think I've ever met or heard of a person called Wren outside MDC, but here, they're all over the place! Wren and Sage and Orion. (Which, now I see it written down, totally looks like "Sage and Onion" - I shoulda called my kids that!)

I think I was influenced by MDC when I named DD Rowan - there are plenty of Rowans of both sexes here, but in real life (in New Zealand) everyone looks blank and asks me to repeat it. Sometimes I say "Rowan, like the tree", but then they look even blanker. I still love the name, but we don't tend to get positive responses on it too often. Unexpectedly, though, everyone seems to like Miles (DS' name).

I know a little Wren IRL.  Now I'm wondering if her mom is an MDCer.  :)  I also know a Rowan (little girl).  I really love that name.

[Logan]

Originally Posted by vivica2 

we have tentatively decided on Miro Kingston for a boy.   what do you think of it?

-viv-

I think Miro is really cute! Kingston is a bit trendy for me (Gwen Stefani) but does go nicely together. 

[Eresh]

My son Rowan has a Wren in his daycare class. I haven't figured out which girl she is though.

[Thursday Girl]

I LOVE Wren, I got it from Baby Blues though. I tried it last time but when I couldn't tell Hubs more about the actual bird he nixed it, so now I need to convince Hubs perhaps. I'll mull it over.

[RosieL]

Feynman. I asked DH to think about the person he would most love our kid to emulate, and see if we could use that name somehow. We BOTH independently with no prompting came up with Richard Feynman. 

But I'm too chicken. We're looking for a first name, since second name is set (from family).

[Flor]

Anais, Luz, and Astrid-- so cute to me but to dh sound like anus, loose, and ass-turd.

[Nicole730]

Originally Posted by Flor 

Anais, Luz, and Astrid-- so cute to me but to dh sound like anus, loose, and ass-turd.

This has me laughing.  Anus, loose, and ass-turd.  Hahaha.

[yippiehippie]

Originally Posted by vivica2 

our daughter is Dae but her nickname is Daisy! i super love it. :)

if we have any more girls they will be (in order) Rosalee, and Lilyanna....... daisy, rose and lily! (now to convince dh i need 2 more girls. ;)

we have tentatively decided on Miro Kingston for a boy.   what do you think of it?

-viv-

Funny, I want to name my daughter (if I ever have one) Daisy and, since DH doesn't like it, he'll call her Dai (day)! He knew a Daisy in HS and didn't like her so the assimilation is still there. I told him he'll et over it;)

So I think I've decided on a boy's name too. Atreyu! Yes it's from The Neverending Story, DH likes it except for that. But none of his friends will associate that, what kid nowadays knows that movie? The only problem is the meaning of it. I've only found a few things...some sites say the author of the book the movie was based on made it up. It was Atreju in the (german) book. Some say it means "son of all" or "friend" and I like those meanings. But apparently in Indian it means "boy warrior" which I don't like considering I'm a pacifist. Anyone know a good resource to find name meanings? 

Now onto middle names... I'm thinking Faith or Prayer for Daisy, but Atreyu is hard to come up w/a middle name for. I want something biblical. Silas maybe?

I'm sure lil babe will come out and the names won't be fitting so I want to come up w/a list of backups, but I'm happy that I have my "favorites" now:)

[yippiehippie]

Originally Posted by Flor 

Anais, Luz, and Astrid-- so cute to me but to dh sound like anus, loose, and ass-turd.

How are you pronouncing Anais to him? It's always been one of my favs (still a contender!) but I just don't hear anus at all with it

[genifer]

Yippiehippie, *I* would have recognised Atreyu from Neverending Story, it was my fave when I was a kid (am I showing my age?), my kids would also recognise it from the movie, they like it too. In fact when I was six I totally had a crush on Atreyu! lol. I think thats actually where I got my love for guys with brown eyes and dark hair (my dh is of that description... so is my son now;) ... I digress).

[yippiehippie]

Originally Posted by genifer 

Yippiehippie, *I* would have recognised Atreyu from Neverending Story, it was my fave when I was a kid (am I showing my age?), my kids would also recognise it from the movie, they like it too. In fact when I was six I totally had a crush on Atreyu! lol. I think thats actually where I got my love for guys with brown eyes and dark hair (my dh is of that description... so is my son now;) ... I digress).

So since you love the movie why would it be a bad thing?! I think it's quite obvious to any adult that was raised in the 80s where it came from and I don't mind, it's DH that does! I'm w/you, I like the movie, so it's not a bad association to me...every name comes from somewhere or someone I guess.

[genifer]

I wasnt trying to say it was a bad thing, lol. I think its a cool name.

[Thursday Girl]

Bernadette, Agnes and Gertrude. I Love those names, no one else does.

[Mizelenius]

Originally Posted by Flor 

Anais, Luz, and Astrid-- so cute to me but to dh sound like anus, loose, and ass-turd.

I LOVE, love, love Anais and just met two kids this summer with that name.  But, I am very afraid people will mispronounce innocently or on purpose to tease (yuck), so no.  Luz/loose never occurred to me since I think it's a pretty common name.  Astrid just sounds like Astrid to me.