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[katelove]

August is a great name. I suggested it but it was a definite no for DH.

Stella is lovely too.

[Simonsez2u]

My husband recently approached me with Samara if it's a girl.  I think it is a beautiful name but while he associates it with nature I associate it with that creepy little girl in The Ring.  I feel bad because I shot down his girl name last time because Marley reminded me of a dog's name. I would love for him to name this one because  I had a lot of input on what to name our other two.  I'm conflicted.  I hope he comes up with something else.
 

[Sheri R]

Originally Posted by TheDivineMrsM 

I LOVE name threads!

Marilyn and Kate - my cousin is Connor Jude. Love how those names go together. 

Last time, we had a boy's name set, but a girl's name was really hard. This time, we (well, I) know what girl's name I want, but a boy's is going to be trouble. It doesn't help that we're both in education: there are perfectly nice names that we have to cross off our list b/c of past associations with students. 

I love Talia but my not pregnant, TTC, or married/engaged/involved SIL claimed it and DH doesn't want to use it b/c it's "hers." Sigh. My other favorite is Arielle, which has the added bonus of a cool meaning. ("Ari" is "Lion" in Hebrew. Since this baby will be a VBAC, I like the idea of giving my daughter a strong name). Middle name will be Hope after my grandmother.

Boys names: I love Daniel, but DH does not. Also love Jack but it's very common around here. I like Levi but DH says it reminds him of Bristol Palin's ex.    He likes Cooper, but it's not my style. Current frontrunner is Samuel, which also has a lovely meaning ("Gift from G-d"). Kind of perfect for a baby that was an unexpected blessing. Middle name, no matter what we pick, will be Henry. 

oops I quoted all of you:)  I am in education also and it is hard to pick a name that isn't associated with a past student, and there have been some lovely names..... but I just can't bring myself to use them.

I've also used too many cool names on pets before..... Marley, Kaya, Sole'  etc.:)

My cousin's boy is Samuel Cooper - super cute combo I think:)  But Samuel Henry is adorable too!

DH wants the middle name to be Moss... fitting since our DD's middle is Rain (and we live in Seattle... and actually do love the rain and moss:)

Playing with William Moss since William is a name on both sides of the family several generations back....

I also love Tiago - a good Portuguese name, but since neither DH nor I are Portuguese.... it would have to be in honor of my BF:)

This time again, girls names are harder for me... DH brought home tons of name books from the library and we had a great time with those last time so we may just need to do it again.....

[Bella Catalina]

Originally Posted by MujerMamaMismo 


Our DS is Sebastian Felix. Jude was also on our list for him.
This time we're playing with totally different boys names:
August and Gulliver are our two frontrunners.
I LOVE LOVE LOVE the name Milo but my DP HATES it equally.
For girls, we have always said we'd name a daughter Francesca and call her Frankie. I do however want to have some other names on the list, just in case. (Afterall, we were sure we'd call DS Finn, and we didn't!)
We both really like Clementine and Stella.
But nothing is set in stone yet!

August was going to be DS2's name, but he's a Jasper. We LOVE August and would use it for sure, but for the fact our surname begins with T.

[katroshka]

Originally Posted by sere234 

Dang, those are all beautiful names! Maybe you need to have quadruplets? 

I haven't really thought about names other than writing down Juniper on a scrap of paper a couple weeks ago. I need to dig out our list of leftover names from DS....

Juniper is my oldest daughter's name, we love it! She gets compliments all the time. A friend of ours was thinking of naming her first Juniper but ended up having a boy.


Katelove and JudiAU: we have a Freja here, which we love! We'd never heard the name except for spelled and pronounced the German way in Das Rheingold, then we picked it for #3 and suddenly have met lots of people who know Frejas/Freyas, and have heard kids getting called in public with the name, and while I was pregnant we watched a masterpiece theatre production that had a Freya in it- so funny! She gets lots of compliments, too, but a lot of people don't get that the j is like a y... my older kids go to a German school and we know lots of Germans so it seemed totally normal to us. Oh, well.

Thinking of Ylva for this one if it's a girl, and Trystan Ash for a boy. Haven't gotten a confirmation on Ylva yet from DH, so we'll see. I love it, though.

[abouttobe5]

Oooh, I love name threads.  All of you have amazing names!  MY fav list (with a few already mentioned)

Girls:

Maggie

Stella

Sam (Samantha I don't love...but I like Sam)

Boys

Finn

Jack

Sam  (hee hee...love it for either)

I have to be careful b/c our last name is also a first name so I don't want to have a first name that could be a last name.  My husband has names that are interchangeable (even his middle name falls into that category) and he's forever having challenges with it.  

Both my other two kids have a hard "C/K" and L in their names (Caleigh, Blake) which I love.  Hard though to keep that up for a third as I'm having trouble thinking of names I like that fit both the C/K and L.  Silly but just something we fell into....

[sycsibert]

Playing around with Stella Rose or Stella Jean in honor of great grandmothers, also like Ava...

and Lon Louis and William Berkeley in honor of great grandfathers

I would really like to do a more herb inspired name like Betony and Basil, but my husband says he does not want "funny" names!

[kparker]

Some of you are posting gorgeous names! My husband and I had names picked out when we were still just dating all those years ago, and they've stuck with us as favourites through the years. We're keeping our girl name to ourselves like creepy hoarders, but if it's a boy we're naming him after his dad - he'd be Guy the Fifth (go go long lineages!).

[americanjuly]

We already have two girls: Avery Shea & Emery Jane: if this is a boy, we like Simon Peter (middle name after hubs) and if it's another girl, we like Lucy "no middle name yet"

[franjapany]

I just have no ideas for names this time around whatsoever. All the names I can think of are girls' names but we are pretty sure this will be a boy. I love name threads, but they are also kind of frustrating for me, because all the names that sound great in English don't work in German.

I have this funny feeling that the baby already *has* a name and it starts with an 'A' but I just can't grasp it, kwim? Maybe it will come to me in time... :)

[MrsKoehn]

Hubby was coming up with the most off the wall names the other day, and he LIKED them! Lol We're both for traditional names, but we also like Bible names. He likes ones I would never want to use, but Elizabeth, Anna, Hannah, Abigail or Elijah, Peter, Matthew, Levi. I like those. He doesn't. Lol Oh well, we still have 6 months and can call him Baby till we figure it out. Those were always some of my parents biggest, um, er, uh, Loud Discussions? Lol
 

[oikophile]

Originally Posted by franjapany 

I just have no ideas for names this time around whatsoever. All the names I can think of are girls' names but we are pretty sure this will be a boy. I love name threads, but they are also kind of frustrating for me, because all the names that sound great in English don't work in German.

I have this funny feeling that the baby already *has* a name and it starts with an 'A' but I just can't grasp it, kwim? Maybe it will come to me in time... :)

For a girl you could do Annika. All the Germans know that name from the Pippi Longstocking stories :)

[franjapany]

haha! I know too many Annikas to use that name, since it was very popular when I was a kid - not so much these days though... I think that's the funny thing, most people wouldn't use a name they are familiar with from their youth, so names usually skip a generation.

However, I need a BOY's name starting with an 'A'! Here are the ones I DON'T like or can't use for other reasons:

Alfred

Anton

Aaron

Arnold and for obvious reasons Adolf (can you believe that people are actually giving their children that name again, nowadays? It's quite high on the ranks I was shocked to see!))

...

these are the ones I can think of from the top of my head right now. It might also be a name starting with a consonant followed by the vowel 'A'...

My first two kids' names are Noah Orion and Sophia Maris and I am very happy with both choices.
 

Edited by franjapany - 5/15/12 at 6:05am

[Krystal1220]

Axel, Abraham, Anders?

We are going with a Swedish theme for our names, most likely. We live in the US and my husband is from Sweden, so we chose a name for our son that we felt was a good crossover (Mattias). I have more ideas for girls with this one than for boys, but my husband and I haven't really discussed it yet.

[oikophile]

Well, I think we've got a handle on a girl's name but boy's names are tougher. We like the idea of using family names (of deceased relatives only, per Ashkenazi Jewish custom), but a lot of the men's names in our families are what we consider too common (William, Robert, John, etc.). There's one family name we'd be okay with using as a middle name, but not first.

I'm also too picky, I think :) I have a lot of criteria, although I could make an exception for a name I really like: I'm not into the trend of giving boys (and girls) last names as first names (e.g. Jackson, Madison, Taylor), unless maybe the name is a family name. I don't feel comfortable using names from other people's culture/heritage so that limits us to Hebrew, German, Italian, Scottish, Irish, and English for the most part. I'm not a fan of non-standard spellings. I'd rather not alliterate the new kid's first name with one of ours, and our names start with M, J and K (I especially don't want a K name because that's my stepdaughter's first initial, and I find alliterative siblings names kinda cutesy). We like nature names--the girl's name we like is a nature name. Neither of us wants a New Testament name (neither of us is Christian).

Sigh. I dunno.  I have a feeling this kiddo will be a boy, just based on Murphy's law :) I'm tempted to use the girl's name regardless. I am into gender-neutrality/diversity but I feel like names are kind of the final barrier that I can't seem to break, mentally.

[MujerMamaMismo]

The A name that I love is Arlo but we have too many close connections with Arlos so it's off the cards for us.

[kateaton]

ok, so I'm resurrecting the name thread.  We're a back to the drawing board since finding out we're having our third girl yesterday.  We both we so certain that this was a boy... but anyway.  So what are your thoughts on these names- we really love Genevieve and Evelyn.  Right now I'm leaning toward Evelyn, but looked it up and found out it's #21 on the 2011 social security website.   Yikes!  I really don't want a popular name.  But I personally have never met another little Evelyn.  I always hear of it as an old lady name.  Does anyone know of a lot of baby Evelyns out there?

  Genevieve is in the 200's so it's apparently much less popular, but I'm just feeling Evelyn more right now.  I think either name would go well with our daughters Madeline and Ainsley.  We're thinking of the middle name Camille for either name...

Genevieve Camille

Evelyn Camille

thoughts?

[TheDivineMrsM]

Originally Posted by kateaton 

ok, so I'm resurrecting the name thread.  We're a back to the drawing board since finding out we're having our third girl yesterday.  We both we so certain that this was a boy... but anyway.  So what are your thoughts on these names- we really love Genevieve and Evelyn.  Right now I'm leaning toward Evelyn, but looked it up and found out it's #21 on the 2011 social security website.   Yikes!  I really don't want a popular name.  But I personally have never met another little Evelyn.  I always hear of it as an old lady name.  Does anyone know of a lot of baby Evelyns out there?

  Genevieve is in the 200's so it's apparently much less popular, but I'm just feeling Evelyn more right now.  I think either name would go well with our daughters Madeline and Ainsley.  We're thinking of the middle name Camille for either name...

Genevieve Camille

Evelyn Camille

thoughts?

I know two little girls named Evelyn. It's a great name but definitely gaining in popularity. Genevieve is beautiful! Not sure if you're a nickname person, but there are lots of options with Genevieve too. 

Would you use Camille as a first?

[faithsstuff]

Originally Posted by TheDivineMrsM 

I know two little girls named Evelyn. It's a great name but definitely gaining in popularity. Genevieve is beautiful! Not sure if you're a nickname person, but there are lots of options with Genevieve too. 

Would you use Camille as a first?

I like both of your names, but I looooove Camille.  I have not met any baby Evelyn's or Genevieve's.  I wonder if it's popular in another geo. area.

Last pregnancy we had tons of girls names, this time (when we're actually having a girl) it seems so much harder.  We like more traditional kinda old fashioned names for girls, but ds is named Ziya.  I feel like I can't have a Ziya and an Olivia.  For names right now we like Mira and Maris, but we haven't looked much.  Ds (3 1/2) says his 'baby' (as he refers to her) should be names Ming Ming (from Wonderpets) or Boom Sky.  How crazy am I that I like Boom Sky a little.  I think it may be from lack of coffee.  

Also, ds middle name is John-Walter, both of his g'pa's .  My mom passed last year and her name is Joyce, but just don't *like* that for a name, I kinda feel guilty :(  My grandmother's name was Marion Ada, which is a maybe.  Dh's g'ma's name was Elma, I shot that down damn fast :)  Oh, and my name is Faith, so there's no way I'm naming my only daughter Joy :)  My mind is whirling.

[oikophile]

Originally Posted by kateaton 

ok, so I'm resurrecting the name thread.  We're a back to the drawing board since finding out we're having our third girl yesterday.  We both we so certain that this was a boy... but anyway.  So what are your thoughts on these names- we really love Genevieve and Evelyn.  Right now I'm leaning toward Evelyn, but looked it up and found out it's #21 on the 2011 social security website.   Yikes!  I really don't want a popular name.  But I personally have never met another little Evelyn.  I always hear of it as an old lady name.  Does anyone know of a lot of baby Evelyns out there?

An acquaintance of mine had a baby when we were in our early 20s (baby will be 9 this summer!) and named her Evelyn. At the time it was unheard of and my reaction was wow, old lady name! Interesting that it's climbed to #21 since then! I have noticed that names ending in "lyn" are pretty popular in general (5 of the top 100).

I think it's inevitable that the "old lady names" will come back around--people name after grandmothers and great-grandmothers. When I was a baby, Jessica was #2, and my mom said she had always thought of Jessica (or Jessie) as an old lady name. Our favorite girls' name is an old lady name--when I google it (first and middle) all that come up are obits :) I know kids under 4 named Mabel, Doris, Dorothy, Lillian etc. I bet our grandchildren will be named Boomer names like Nancy, Linda, Judith... (The name recycling doesn't seem to have happened as much with boys' names. Haven't met any little Elmers or Clarences yet.)

I like Genevieve! I only know two and they're about my age. I also like Guinevere, not related but has a lot of the same letters and isn't as popular.