Anyone obsessing about names, like me? [Archive]

mum2tori

07-05-2004, 09:55 PM

Ugh! I had this nice long post typed out and my computer just decided to spontaneously restart. :irked: :irked:

We haven't really discussed names but in passing. Guess it's something we really need to start doing. :innocent :innocent

We of course have a girl's name all picked out, have since we were pregnant with Jackson. Of course we are having a boy. :eyesroll I'm really protective about the girl's name, everyone that I've ever mentioned it too has said "oooh I love that name" and I don't really want a popularity surge on it. ;) When we found out that Radish is a boy, David said right then "well maybe we will have four..." That's the first time he's really considered more than 3 children. He worries about being able to afford college and the finacials with having a really large family. We want to be able to travel.

We had a long list with Jack. The biggest problem we were having wasn't a name that we both liked, it was too many names that we both liked! :rotflmao

I was about as far along with Jack as I am right now when I suddenly started thinking of him in my head as Jack. Before that we'd been referring to him as "Peanut". :LOL For about a week, I didn't say anything to David then I finally mentioned to him that for some reason I kept thinking of him as "Jack". He said he really liked that name. We decided on the more formal Jackson because we wanted a formal name and not a nickname. It was more "southern gentleman" sounding which David really liked and it's a family name on my side (General Stonewall Jackson is my great great great great uncle... doesn't get more "southern" than that. :W :W It was about a week before he was born that we decided on the middle name of Grey (suggested by a friend actually). David didn't want to use any of the names off of our boy list because he wanted to still use them as "first" name of another child since the middle name doesn't get use much. :eyesroll :eyesroll

He also has this weird quirk about middle names that are "too long", this coming from a guy with a middle name Ray. :eyesroll The names can't be to "repetitive" sounding. Like a middle name can't end in -er because our last name is Hunter. :confused:

Of course off your list I'm partial to Jackson. :W :W

Our list from Jackson:
Calvin (I'd love to have a little blond menace like Calvin :LOL)
James (David's grandfather's name but also we have 3 friends that are named James so they would all think its because of them. :irked: I liked the nickname Jamie but David wasn't sure about that.)
Gavin
Alexander
Christopher
Lyle (my grandfather's name, as a middle name)
Nicholas

Mom2baldie

07-05-2004, 10:18 PM

Not obsessing yet, but sure it will happen soon! :)

From your lists I love the names Iris and Ivy for girls. Jackson and Asher for boys.

We havent even really started talking about names yet for some reason. Its so hard to choose!

ilex

07-05-2004, 10:36 PM

Wow thanks for all the replies! Asher is a popular one!!! I like it too.

Plantmommy, I like Audrey too, just trying to convince my dh that is as wonderful as I think it is. :) Audrey and Isabelle sound nice together... ;)

Jen, that is funny! I should ask more kids!

msrog, I like the idea of family names too. Jack was my dh's dad and that is a big contender (or Jackson). Unfortunately all the other names are just really boring or too french... :) But we are considering Nikolai too.

Mum2tori, Jackson Grey is a great name. Names are tough!

Mom2baldie, I think I started picking out names before I even tested positive! It's probably good to wait this long though, I'm waiting for a *sign*...teehe...

blipla

07-06-2004, 05:35 AM

I never got too obsessive this time but my husband did. I think we've decided now so I can give you some of our rejects if you like.

I love Jude- it was my number one but dh said no way

Casper
Silas
Cassius

hmmm...that's all I can come up with now, I know there were more

My son's name is Boaz Jackson. Jackson is my FIL's middle name too. Our children all have family names for middle names.

For a boy we have chosen Elias James and for a girl it will be Willa Blithe

sistermama

07-06-2004, 02:06 PM

I'm fine with boys names, but am starting to obsess about girls names. We can't think of ANYTHING that we really love. Ds name is Jack Edwin, and I just love it. All we can come up with for a girl's name is just something that we don't hate. We decided not to think about it for a couple of months, since we weren't getting anywhere, but know I'm starting to get worried as time passes. I would like to have at least a couple of options before this baby is born, otherwise if it is a girl, I fear it will take weeks for her to get a name!

banana girl

07-06-2004, 02:56 PM

We have had 4 complete names picked out for months and now, near the end I am questioning them!!!

I haven't broken down and looked through the name book lately, but have thought about it.
We have 2 girls names.. first and middle and 2 boys names... first and middle. One of the things i have tried to do lately is to ask the baby what names it likes.... I sit and touch my tummy and think or say the names out loud and try to gauge if I get more / less kicks for any names. It's kinda fun, but probably totally random.

There seems to be one name in particular i have gotten more reaction to than any other. There's also a particular song that has this same name in it, which i get stuck in my head ALL THE TIME! The name itself is pretty common, (and a family name), but we want to spell it really weird.

On a side note, my friend Kristi named her son Korbin Travis. It is a nice name and all, but they got the name from the movie "The Fifth Element" The main character's name is Corbin Dallas. Hummmm. Not sure what i think about it, but hey, he's not my kid, is he! :W

Anna Banana

almama

07-06-2004, 03:57 PM

From your list, I like Sadie and Jackson (one of my picks, but not my DH)

We'll never have a girl, since we are stopping with three, but our favorite name was Lainey. It is usually short for Elaine, but we were going to have it short for Eliane. Oh well!

We're still stuck on a boy name which scares me since my second had no name for three days, then a different name for three days, and finally his own name. We're very indecisive!!

ilex

07-06-2004, 11:17 PM

I find it very interesting that no one wants to divulge their names...Not that that is a problem, I just find it kind of funny, and curious. ;)

I am liking Jude more and more too. Although the history of the name throws me off... I still like it.

One really good book I have found for names is the "Cool names for Babies" book. Great names in there.

mum2tori

07-06-2004, 11:39 PM

David and I honestly have only really discussed actual names twice. He said we should start a "new" list. Start from scratch with no preconceived notions. Okay, sounds fair...

His first suggestion... Christopher. (psst honey that was on Jack's list too :eyesroll and it was his suggestion that time). That conversation was just before memorial weekend we were driving.

Second conversation: David mentions he really likes the name Nicholas ( :eyesroll psst guess what... that's right on the list before, but my suggestion that time). We also discussed James again. I really like the nickname Jamie for a boy (must be my scottish heritage coming out ;)). This was about 2 weeks ago.

We haven't really sat down and talked about it again. :irked: :irked:

Caroline248

07-07-2004, 09:08 AM

Well, I have had my names picked out for a while...I don't mind telling them here because I don't think it will matter! My kids names were all "original" when I named them, but became super popular that next year! I know my boy name is popular now, but I have been saving it for 6 years, and back then it was not as common.
For a boy, we are using Jackson Henry. Jackson because we like the name jack, and my favorite to place to go when I was pregnant with Lilly was Stone Mt in Georgia. We went every weekend....there is a huge carving on the side of the mountain and one of the generals depicted is Stonewall Jackson...Henry is my DH grandfathers middle name.
For a girl, I was going to use Amelia Joanne. Amelia because I love it, and Joanne was my moms sister who died when they were little kids.

Okay, I revealed!! Maybe more would want to reveal on the yahoo board where there is limited views??

Caroline

sistermama

07-07-2004, 12:54 PM

If this is a boy, we are naming him Eli. It is my great-grandfather's name and I have always loved it. We were going to use my mil maiden name of Cole for a middle name, but we overheard my bil and sil saying that they want to use it for a first name, so we're going to think up something else. I don't want to use up all the "good" family names! If Jack had been a girl, we would have used Maya Isabel, but now I know about 4 Mayas under the age of 3, so I don't want to use it now.

If I was sure that I wasn't having any more babies, I would use Ellen for a girl's name this time, but I can't give up the name Eli for the theoretical third child!

Tree Swallow

07-08-2004, 10:57 AM

Well, Ellen is a lovely name, and should be used as frequently as possible. :D

msrog

07-10-2004, 12:47 PM

I am ready to divulge, heh heh...

(Like Caroline, our names were picked out 6+ years ago, and weren't at all common, so it has been VERY AGGRAVATING to watch them become more and more popular. Grrrr. But don't worry, I won't be upset with any of you for deciding to use them... They really are pretty!)

Twin girls: (That's what I'm assuming we're having, though we aren't peeking:)

McKenna Rose, and Michela (pronounced Mikayla) Alana (pronounced aLAAHna)

McKenna is the last name of my four half siblings. Rose is my father's mother's name (died about 4 years ago). McKenna was going to have Rhoda as a middle name: My mom's dad has a little sister he loves named Rhoda, and he used to call my mom Rhoda all the time accidentally, to where it's now kindof a pet name for her. (Mom and her mom are named Dorothy. Sorry. Not gonna happen. And my mom's middle name is Louise.) But Rhoda was too old fashioned for dh, and I kept singing the Roto-Rooter song every time I said "Rhoda Rogers." Also, Rhoda means Rose anyway, so there you go...

Michela is my dh's mom's name (still living). She's Italian, from Venice. It also sounds incredibly cute with McKenna, as far as twin names go. Alana is a name I thought I invented (though have since seen in name books), a variation of my dh's middle name Alan. (He wouldn't let me name any of the kids Matthew or Alan. Weirdo. Didn't even like the boy name I also invented, Matson. Get it, son of Matt? Harumph.)

Our next boy will be William Douglas, but I already said that in an earlier post.

Right now, McKenna is my Baby A, on my left side, and Michela is Baby B, on the right. Cute, eh?

greenbeing

07-10-2004, 05:00 PM

From your list, I like Iris and Jude. Jude was one of my choices for a boy, but I guess it reminded dh of a kid in school he wasn't too fond of. Someone else mentioned Silas, I like that one too!

We're thinking this baby will be Miles Xavier (Zavier). If the baby turns out to be a girl, she'll be Cecelia Soleil ( after my great grandmother). both of these names will be used only if baby likes them of course :D

chrissy

07-10-2004, 06:59 PM

Boys names are harder, aren't they?!

If we have a girl, she'll be Elizabeth Ann, after both of our moms and we'll probably call her Libby.

For a boy we have a list about 11 names long but none that really feels just right. Noah is sure we're having a boy and wants to name him Bodhi. Other boy possibilities include: Alexander, Theodore, Gabriel, Miller, Miles, Tobias, and more that I can't think of right now.

4under6

07-11-2004, 12:07 PM

I love the name Jude, too!

My MIL had three boys, then a girl, and then she was pg with her 5th. When she was pg w/ the 5th, her father was dying of cancer, and his name is Charles. She desparately wanted another boy so she could name him Charles after her dad. So, being a strict Catholic obsessed with Saints, she prayed to St. Jude (who is the patron Saint of lost causes, or desparate hope), and promised St. Jude that if he would bless her with a boy, she would also give him the namesake Jude.
Of course, she had a boy, named Charles Jude! And that boy is my husband.

Donny is also named Donald Jude.

I think we discussed this AGES ago, but in early pregnancy, my husband was dead set on naming this baby Rex if it was a boy.
I would not have it!
So I had to come up with something really good that would change his mind, and Finn did the trick!
Finley James as a formal name.
Though now, we are thinking that Finley sounds "off" with our last name, Bethke. Finley Bethke. Though we know we will call him Finn.

What do you think.....should we name him:
*Finley
*Finlay(pronounced the same as Finley)
*Finnigan
*Finnian

As a side note, he would have been Bridget if he were a girl!

JenInMpls

07-11-2004, 06:43 PM

Finnigan James Bethke flows very nicely and has a nice rhythm to it.

Jen, whose name also has the same meter (3 syllables - 1 syllable - 2 syllables)

blipla

07-11-2004, 06:57 PM

I vote Finnigan! It's on my list, I love Finn as a nickname. But it's a no go with my husband.

I just mentioned Tobias to him and he said "it's interesting" so we may be onto something. I'm just not convinced Elias is the right name. As silly as it sounds, I think when it's written out it doesn't look like it has enough letters.

msrog

07-12-2004, 09:32 PM

"There was an old man named Michael Finnegan..." have you heard that cute song on the Disney play tunes tape? hee hee... I also really like that name, Ms. Bethke =O)

Hey, someone mentioned (Anna?) the name Corbin earlier... I didn't think much of it, but then the next morning I was reading my Bible in Mark and actually saw that name in there (spelled Corban), Hebrew for "a gift devoted to God." All of a sudden I realized I like that name; and when I asked dh what he thought, he also likes it. So yay, now we're onto something for the boy after next... ;)

JenInMpls

07-12-2004, 09:40 PM

Hey, someone mentioned (Anna?) the name Corbin earlier... I didn't think much of it, but then the next morning I was reading my Bible in Mark and actually saw that name in there...

Yes, but you will also find Gomer and Nimrod in the bible, as well. Old Testament, of course, but biblical nonetheless...

Hm.

:wink

jen

Mom2baldie

07-12-2004, 09:43 PM

I like everyones names so far!

If we have a boy, his name will be Micah Alexander Stone. I wanted something that didnt end in a Y or N, since we already have a RileY and PaityN and I am just really anal about things. Alexander is a name I dreamt of a long time ago when I was still in the 1st trimester and bleeding a lot. If this baby wants to be named Alex, then I cant deny him of it...

I have no idea about girls names yet, but I like the names Karina, Skyler, Abigail...

I absolutely can not wait to find out what gender this baby is! It is almost driving me insane!!!

banana girl

07-13-2004, 09:57 AM

so, I got out the Baby Name book again.....

the names we have been confident about are suddenly.... iffy in my mind!
Jerome, his brother and his Dad all have the initials JDR so we have been intending to name a boy JDR.

Here's a few of our boy name ideas
1. Jonovan Damien Rundall
2. Jehmes Digory Rundall (pronounced James)
3. Jaron, Jerrin or Jerron Digory Rundall

*Jonovan is a slight change on Jonathan (my older brother who was stillborn / premature)
*James in Jerome's dad's name, and the name I get stuck in my head all the time (song from James and the Giant Peach)
* funny thing about the name, Digory... it's my teddy bears name! Yes, I still sleep with a teddy bear.

Girl name ideas
1. Mielle Anne Rundall (cool nicknames Mel, Elle, Mia)
2. Jayda Diane Rundall (female JDR)

(originally we planned on Amber Mielle Rundall... but Amber?)

*Mielle means honey in spanish and french
*and both Diane and Anne are a nod to my name.

So, is it crazy to be doubting names we have liked for so long??? any thoughts guys???

Anna Banana

JenInMpls

07-13-2004, 11:17 AM

So, is it crazy to be doubting names we have liked for so long??? any thoughts guys?

Um, no.

I had a girl name picked out - I was totally set on it a year and a half ago. Alexa. From the song "The Downeaster Alexa" by Billy Joel. That was it, there was no discussion. It was Alexa. And Jo indicated that she wasn't in love with it. So I figured that meant that we had to keep thinking, and slowly I weaned myself from my love of this name. When I brought up girl names in the spring, Jo said "I thought we had agreed on Alexa!". Oh. By this time I was no longer in love with the name and have been working on finding another one I'm in love with that Jo doesn't hate the way she hates Phoebe, Norah and Lydia. But now she's set on Alexa! what to do?!

I'm just curious and am not putting down your choices, but why do you want to name a child Jehmes instead of James? His whole life he's going to be correcting people who are spelling it, and folks are going to mispronounce it. Now before people jump all over me defending alternative spellings, I just want to *know* if there is a reason. So save your admonitions, please.

Amber is a beautiful name, but if you say "Amber Rundall" there is no natural break between the names because the first ends in R and the last begins in R. So it sounds like Amberundall.

Lynsey, I thought that the "Y"s in Riley's and Paityn's names were nods to your name! :)

jen

banana girl

07-13-2004, 01:14 PM

That's a good question, I wish I had a really good answer! Mostly we just didn't want our child to have the same name as a whole bunch of other kids. I personally was interested in spelling it Jahmes but Jerome likes it better as Jehmes.
Do you guys think it will really be a hassle for him if we spell his name weird???? I think it's pretty. :innocent
anna

Mom2baldie

07-13-2004, 01:37 PM

Anna,

I just wanted to tell you that for me personally, its not a big deal to have *my* name spelled differently. Everyone always thinks its Lindsey, but I LOVE the way my parents decided to spell it!

We also spelled Paityns name kindof weird (instead of Peyton or Payton), but again, I think its beautiful, so I dont regret it - and I hope she doesnt either!

Also, I love Mielle for a girls name! Really pretty. And Jaron was another name that we were thinking about using instead of Riley - we were going to spell it Jarren though...

banana girl

07-13-2004, 02:03 PM

"Also, I love Mielle for a girls name! Really pretty." - Lynsey

My favorite thing about the name Mielle is singing the song "Michelle ma belle" and substituting Mielle for Michelle! - I must admit this is my personal favorite name, BUT I really think I'm having a boy.....

When I went back to the baby book the other day, Jaron kept leaping out at me, and the baby kept kicking me, that's why it is "back on the list". It has a nice ring "Jaron Rundall" hummmm...

Anna

HeatherLynn

07-14-2004, 11:48 PM

I just have to say my very absolute favorite boy name on your list is Ezra! Since I was 12 years old I've wanted to name my son Ezra (Luke)...number one is now on his way and his name is Zachary DeLoss! DH and I debated on boy names ever since we found out we were pregnant...(settled on a girl name right away!). We decided to wait to find out the sex of the baby before we stressed out too much, but the moment I found out, I wanted to name him ASAP. DH didn't like anything, everyone thought Ezra was weird, and I was crushed. Two weeks later, we chose Zachary! Didn't love it, but I do now :) Funny how my husband got to use his weird family name, yet mine was rejected. lol. I'm just hoping we have another boy, for another chance at Ezra! :D Hang in there!!! You'll find the perfect name!

~Heather
Wife to Daniel 7/12/02
Zachary edd 9/24/04

msrog

07-15-2004, 09:49 PM

These are super, creative names!!! What great confident kids we will have, eh?

Micah was one on my list, too. Very nice name.

I really like Alexa! Fall in love with it again, Jo, fall in love again!

Anna, I love Jonovan and Jayda! Those would make really cool twin names, wouldn't they??? When I see Jehmes, I say it like "gems", and my mouth kindof purses, like a proper butler dressed in butler attire, looking down his nose at someone... Weird, eh? haha...

Oh, and Lynsey, I completely thought all these months that your daughter's name had an L in it, Paitlyn!!!! Wow, I'm blind. Paityn is very lovely!

I think Ezra is a great name too, as is Zachary...

and I have a niece with the beautiful name Karina, spelled exactly the same. Her mom is from Puerto Rico. I have never heard anyone before mention the name! Her name is Karina Leigh McKenna

MeganW

07-16-2004, 02:21 PM

I just had to chime in on this. I love Asher. We actually have discussed and it and both love it but I think we're going to go with a family name this time around. Walker Edward Walker is my last name and Edward is both of our grandfathers middle names. Both of us were raised primarily by our grandparents so it is so significant that we can't just let it go :) As far as a girl goes Prudence Illythia with Rapture or Never as a second middle name most likely. I've had this name picked out for YEARS and I pretty much told him he didn't have a choice. :W

Mom2baldie

07-16-2004, 07:36 PM

Savannah,

Thanks for the compliment on Paityns name. And also, about Karina, it has kindof a sweet meaning: Dear Little One. Or so it says on babynames.com...

ilex

07-17-2004, 10:24 PM

It's great to read all of your names! And nice to know I'm not the only one having a heck of a time deciding. It's such a huge thing. And thanks for confessing names too... ;)

So the most recent development is being fairly stuck on the name Ezra Jack. For girls it seems to be between Iris and Sadie still, can't quite land on a girls middle name.

Has anyone ever had a name that they just love, feel so good about, but EVERYONE dislikes it? I mean everyone. For the last three years, since my dd was born, I have loved the name Anouk. I saw it in the movie Chocolat, the little girl, her name was Anoushka, and they shortened it to Anouk, and I have always really loved it. My dh really likes it too actually, but good lord everyone we have mentioned the name to, hates it, or makes fun of it, or scowls, or grimaces...I have not found one person to like it. Which is sad b/c I think for this reason we aren't using it. We are thinking of using it for a middle name...Has anyone had this experience? What did you do? This has sort of happened with Ezra, about 50/50. hate it or love it. It's tough when people, especially family think so poorly of a name you love...

But I guess in a way if I REALLY wanted it, I would just use it. It's just that with a name like Anouk, it is so universally disliked it seems it's tough to say I want my child to have that name.

Any thoughts?

Kabes

07-17-2004, 10:45 PM

I love the name Anouk (and Vianne, too). I would seriously consider using them if we weren't commited to using family names.

dd#1 is: Cecile Faith - after my aunt, and my mother (also my middle name)
dd#2 is: Antoinette Mary - after dh's grandmothers (maternal was Anna) and my
grandmothers (paternal was Mary Alice)
ds will be Frank Joseph, III and will be called Trey - He is actually the fifth but his
gg-father was Frances Joseph, and ggg-father was
Frances John

We will probably have a fourth one day, if we are so blessed.
a boy: Matthew Paul - my bro, and only sibling and dh's bro and only whole brother
a girl: Lynelle Rose - my mother's middle name and dh's mother ( dh hates Lynelle, he
is so glad this baby is a boy) I really like how is goes with Cecile
and Antoinette.

That's the thing about family names once you start it feels like you can't stop.

JenInMpls

07-18-2004, 12:03 PM

Has anyone ever had a name that they just love, feel so good about, but EVERYONE dislikes it?

When i was a teenager, I babysat for my pastor and one day picked up their youngest daughter's baby book which was sitting out on the coffee table. It said in it that they wanted to name her Kaia, a beautiful Scandanavian name (to fit with their 100% Norwegian ancestry and their last name Osmundson), but people said that they thought Kaia sounded "Indian" (i.e. Native American) and so they scrapped it because they didn't want people to think they gave their daughter an "Indian name".

Huh?

Even then I couldn't understand (1) why they didn't educate people about the name they had chosen and (2) why they even cared if people thought they had given their daughter an "Indian name".

I still like the name Kaia (and Kai for that matter!) but both names *really* don't fit with our last names.

jen

Caroline248

07-18-2004, 01:23 PM

I wanted to name my second daughter Kiera..but I was vetoed. With this one, I have had the name picked for so long, I couldn't really imagine a boy with any other name. The only problem is how commom it is becoming...6 years ago it wasn't so popular. But I really don't care..all my names were not popular when I picked them, but have since become....

Oh, and about spelling named differently, my parents had originally wanted to spell my my name unusually, but were talked out of it....I still have to spell it out all the time, even though it is the "correct" spelling. The only thing I would think is the pronounciation. My husband has to pronounce his name all the time and he hates it....

Caroline

fourlittlebirds

07-19-2004, 01:07 PM

I am having a terrible time deciding on a girl name. I guess I have to go through the baby name book again! One name I really like is Rowan, but that is very close in sound to Noah, who is our second. I like Summer also. But I just don't know. Kaia is pretty, actually! Hmmm...

The boy name is easy! I have been set on Liam Phoenix for a long time.

Bellasmum, when my daughter was born I couldn't decide on a name, and my husband was set on Willow, which was on my short list. Well, my mom, his mom, and my best friend all hated it and made it known. I couldn't belive that they would ruin it for us, and why would they think their opinion was desired anyway? I would never think to comment negatively on a name someone else chose and loved. :(

JenInMpls

07-19-2004, 03:03 PM

I am having a terrible time deciding on a girl name. I guess I have to go through the baby name book again! One name I really like is Rowan, but that is very close in sound to Noah, who is our second.

Just me the name purist again here to say... isn't rowan a boy's name? the babynamer at oxygen.com says its from the male gaelic name Ruadhan meaning "Red one".

I too am starting to obsess about girl names. I can't come up with ANYTHING that suits me. Yesterday I found the name Paige, but Paige Constance just doesn't seem to flow nicely to me. Darcy? Chloe? Should I return to my old standard favorite of Elisabeth with the German spelling which will piss off my mom to no end? :LOL (she is even more of a name purist than I am and does not like anything in the way of alternative spellings, even if they are traditional and proper in other languages)

argh.

j

Mom2baldie

07-19-2004, 03:22 PM

Linda,

We had Rowan on our name list also, but we had to cross it off because our last name is Stone and we thought Rowan Stone sounded too much like the Rolling Stones...

I like Summer a lot also!

fourlittlebirds

07-19-2004, 06:30 PM

Jen, Rowan seems to have become a cross-over name, although there are still about twice as many boy Rowans as girl Rowans. It doesn't really matter to me, though, as I don't mind fooling around with convention as long as it feels right and isn't done just for the sake of being different. I wouldn't go so far as to name her George or Chester. :LOL

Caroline248

07-19-2004, 07:24 PM

Jen...I lovet he name Paige...that would have been my first daughters name, but my DH last name starts with a P...so that was out...it is soooo beautiful of a name...

LInda, how would you pronounce Rowan? Stress on first or second?

Heehee..Rowan Stone...

Caroline

chrissy

07-24-2004, 06:55 AM

So, we've had our girl's name for a while but were struggling with a boy's name. But I think we've got it: Gabriel Miller. Miller is my maiden name. Phew!

JenInMpls

07-24-2004, 07:05 AM

Yes, the quest for a girl name has finally turned into an obsession. It's horrible. We are getting nowhere and Jo's stubbornness is making me nuts. All I get to every suggestion is "no". Or "I don't like it."

:bang

jen

sistermama

07-26-2004, 08:13 AM

Its so odd to me that I can't come up with a girls name, since I always had TONS of girls names, and no boys names I really liked. But I'm having a hard time because of the following self-imposed rules.

1. Can't start with an S - I mean come one, John, Sarah, Jack and S---- don't want it to look like we did that on purpose.
2. Can't start with a J - don't want kids with same letters starting their names.
3. Can't start with a C or K, because our last name is a C, and the alliteration of those sounds is a little to "peppy" sounding to me.
4. Has to go with Pamela (my mom's name and will be this baby's middle name) - which pretty much wipes out any names that end with 'a'.

Right now we are with Lucy Pamela, which we like okay, although a couple of years ago my mom said she hated. Too bad for her, she's just lucky someone is naming a baby after her with attitude like that!! hee, hee

I really love the name Rowan for a girl, but I could never use it, as it is my best friend's number one girl name. I really like Kaia and Mielle as well. Actually, I think you all are making nice choices - not like it would matter if I didn't!!!

JenInMpls

07-26-2004, 09:16 AM

:splat

This is me lately.

Fell asleep thinking about girl names, dreamt about girl names. The short list:

Paige
Jorja
Emilia

We both like Paige but it nixes our middle name of Constance, probably - does anyone else besides me find Paige Constance a little stilted and uneven? Be honest. And we find no good way to nickname Paige. And it is surprisingly popular to gain Jo's approval! (47th in rank of social security registrations in 2003. See the Social Security baby name page (http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/index.html) for more details. Jorja is not ranked, btw, and Emilia is 506th, while Emily is #1.)

I feel asleep to thinking about the name Adrienne, I like it, Jo says it reminds her of Rocky (yo, Adrienne, get me a beer). There also is a famous lesbian author named Adrienne Rich and Jo thinks it would look like we were naming our kid after her. So? And I can't get an opinion out of her about Elizabeth / Elisabeth.

Enough ranting! I don't know why I thought this would be easy, it took us 3 weeks to name our cat!!! Probably because our boy name came to us so quickly.

Jen in nameland

sistermama

07-26-2004, 09:31 AM

Okay Jen - I'm not that crazy about the way Paige sounds with the other names, you're right, it doesn't flow that well. I love the name Jorja, but it would be so easy for her to end up being called Jo, if not be you and Jo but but other people and I don't know if you would want that. I really like the name Emilia - lots of good sounding nickname possiblities too. As far as Adrienne, I would never make the connection of, "oh, they're lesbians, so they must of named her after Adrienne Rich" :LOL

Caroline248

07-26-2004, 07:02 PM

Jen, Amelia is my girls name...would Emilia be pronounced the same? It is very pretty. I already told you I love Paige...I think Paige Constance sounds fine...pretty much anything sounds good together after you hear it a couple of times...

I have to say I am not in love with Jorja, is it a different way to spell Georgia? Or are they pronounced differently? Jorja to me looks like you are trying to make a trendy name out of Georgia..but I like the sound of the name...

SM..Lucy is a beautiful name....Lucy Pamela sounds a little forced when I say it outloud..hve you thought about Lucille Pamela and call her Lucy? I like longer first names usually....

Ok...that is my $.02

Caroline

JenInMpls

07-26-2004, 07:34 PM

I have to say I am not in love with Jorja, is it a different way to spell Georgia? Or are they pronounced differently? Jorja to me looks like you are trying to make a trendy name out of Georgia...

Yes, it's the same pronunciation. I know what you mean about the alternate spelling thing, my mother will be totally in an uproar, but there are a few Jorjas out there, including the concertmaster of the Minnesota Orchestra, Jorja Fleezanis. I've always admired her, she's very stately. And then there's Jorja Fox, who is on CSI, which would make the name fall into my sister's "proof that you watch too much tv" category.

Emilia has more of an 'em' in the beginning, like rhyming with 'gem', than the 'uhm' that Amelia is usually pronounced with (uh-mee-lee-yah).

This is so frustrating!

j

mum2tori

07-26-2004, 10:09 PM

Well we've talking about boys names a little bit more. I think David is set on Nicholas. He totally nixed my idea of Nicholai. :rolleye Hey, had to try. ;) He keeps also bringing up Valentino... I don't think so. Especially since it's because of a motorcycle rider. :rolleyes I remember when I was pregnant with Jack, the guys in David's NG unit kept saying we should name him Maximus Sparticus Hunter. :bigeyes :rolleyes :bigeyes

So... maybe we are having a Nicholas, but we still have no idea on the middle name. :LOL

Caroline248

07-27-2004, 08:44 AM

Jen, if Jorja is more common where you live, then I would say it was a great name! I still like Emilia though..and Paige...

Samantha, Nicholas was on our list with our last baby, my husband wanted Nicolai...we were planning on calling him Cole. HE surprised us by being a SHE...

Caroline

4under6

07-27-2004, 09:17 PM

Jen-
I love Jorja!

Georgia was on our short list for girls, as kind of a tribute to my dad, since he was from Georgia.

I like Amelia and Paige, too.

banana girl

08-27-2004, 08:25 AM

let's talk about names again!

My silly mama has made a baby blanket with the initials JDR running around the outside of the border.
Now if this child is a boy we have 3 boy names that are all JDR's (like his papa and grampa)
But if it is a girl, the name I am most inclined twords is Mielle Anne Rundall. I do have a JDR girl name picked out too.... BUT. It just doesn't sit with me as well.

Silly mama, i can't name this baby dependent on a blanket!!!!

JenInMpls

08-27-2004, 08:46 AM

Jo has her heart set on the girl name Jorja.

I'm still hoping it's a boy. :LOL

Anna, if you have a girl, it will just have to become Jerome's blanket, eh? :)

jen

Brisen

08-27-2004, 01:29 PM

banana girl

08-27-2004, 01:43 PM

Anna, if you have a girl, it will just have to become Jerome's blanket, eh? :)

I can't beleive I never thought of that! I don't think that's quite what mom had in mind though!
Mom's banking on the fact that we have been thinking it's a boy for awhile. It's only now that we are really close that I'm really doubting it.

banana girl

08-27-2004, 01:46 PM

Shannon... am i reading this right? You haven't named your daughter yet? How sweet!

I had a friend in montana who waited a month to name her son. She was glad she waited... the original name just wasn't the right fit for him.

Brisen

08-27-2004, 03:05 PM

Shannon... am i reading this right? You haven't named your daughter yet?

Nope. It took us almost 2 weeks with Solomon. Nathan's back at work for this week and has been working on the kitchen and organizing a big dinner for about 300 kids from church, so we just haven't had time to discuss it. We have 30 days to register her birth, so we have plenty of time. ;)

allibabble

08-27-2004, 03:12 PM

We haven't decided yet. I thought we had decided on Dell, way back before Darwin was born, but dh doesn't like it anymore. :irked: Our short list was Meredith Louise or Miriam Louise, but then dh went online and has a bunch more. We want to use the middle name Louise (my and my mom's middle name), and this is our list now:
<snip>

Oh, Shannon, I feel so much better now reading your post!

I've never thought about boys' names...for some reason it just felt irrelevant to me, and I couldn't care, which was ironic since I've *always* said I'd want to be a boy mom, and wouldn't know what to do with a girl! Go figure...by the time I did an u/s at 24 weeks, I would have been stunned if it wasn't a girl; I just KNEW. Thank god I was right.

I have a list, and I've just told people that I'm not selecting a name until after she's born, so I can see what sort of name might fit her. My gut feel on this baby is that she'll be a pretty calm, laid-back child, unlike her mom...there's something about her that comforts me (reversed roles)!

Here's what I have so far ... some of these are middle name options, definitely if they're one syllable, since my LN is a one syllable name. The meanings follow each.

Arden - Sincere
Audrey - Noble
Celeste - Heavenly
Haley/Hailey/Haylee - ingenious
Jocelyn - The merry one
Kyla - Attractive
Maya - Great one (also a goddess name)
Miranda - Admired
Quinn - Wise and intelligent
Riley - Valiant
Skylar - eternal life, strength, love and beauty
Tallullah / Talula - Leaping water (native am); prosperous lady (Irish)
Vivienne/Vivian - Life
Zoe - Life

Comments? :)

Allison

JenInMpls

08-27-2004, 04:08 PM

Oh Allison, I love most of the names you have picked out... and they've all been shot down by Jo :( I also had picked out Audrey (can't use Audrey, was the name of Jo's friend's scary landlord), Maya (just got the blank "uh-uh") and Zoe. Jo said Zoe would be ok if it were pronounced to rhyme with 'toe' instead of 'joey'. Sigh.

Shannon, I especially like Meredith Louise. Lucky you have a partner who is interested in actually suggesting names instead of just saying "uh-uh" at everything you come up with. Oh no, I'm not bitter at all. Anyway, my co-worker Deb did not name her son for a year, so 2 weeks does not strike me as long. Got to get the right name. 300 kids at your church?! Holy cow! We have to combine confirmation programs with 2 other churches to get a class.

Anna - I feel just the same way you do. I've been convinced this is a boy since the day I conceived, but all of the people who insist that it's a girl have made me think twice lately. Hrm.

The most vexing thing for me is trying to avoid names of my students. Too many associations or kids who would go around insisting that we named our kid after them.

such difficulties!

mum2tori

08-27-2004, 04:28 PM

We've been going round and round on a middle name. Still don't have a "set" first name either.

One name that keeps coming up is James. We both love the name... it just has a lot of connections.

1. David's paternal (deceased) grandfather's name and his uncle's name though he goes by his middle name.

Don't want to hurt his maternal grandfather... and the name Paul doesn't do anything for either of us. Couldn't name him both names because then he'd sound like the Pope or something. :LOL

2. We have 3 yes 3 close friends named James. One is David's best friend since for over 15 years. They've been through a lot together but he isn't the most responsible person in the world. And the others are close friends from the military. One was our roommate for a couple of months a few years ago.

ALL 3 of them would be convinced we were naming him after them. :eyesroll :eyesroll And honestly, none of them are people that you would "name" a child after. YK? :LOL

3. I'd want to use the nickname Jamie and David isn't too sure about that. :irked: I don't want to use the nickname Jimmy (one friend goes by that) or Jim.

But basically since David has been out of town for the last 2 weeks... we haven't talked names. :eyesroll :eyesroll