Baby names (1 Viewer)

[the moops]

Name after a famous person? A relative? Make up a name? Deep spiritual meaning?

Anyway, moops and moopette are prego. She's only like 11 weeks or so. We have a list of names (girl names are way easier to come up with than boy names), and we are tossing those names out to all out family and friends. Except my mom. She doesnt want to know any of the names until the baby is born.

But what the hell. We dont mind hearing people's opinions of names. It is going to be someone's name for their life. We don't want them to have a ####ty name like Chad or Gary or something

Here is what we like so far. Maybe I'll start a pole at some point. Not that I would listen to you clowns anyhow.

Girls

isla

elsa

etta

ellie

elsie

cecelia

ivy

penelope

ella

elle

cassidy

Boys

arlo

edgar

eli

ellis

finley

 

[bentley]

I think you should reread the "it's going to be their name for life" statement and then look at your list of boy names again.

So, here's how we picked out son's name. My wife was throwing out a bunch of terrible yuppie names like Braden and Breckin and Bryce and finally she came across one that wasn't terrible. So I told her I loved it, and away we went. I wanted to use "Wayne" as his middle name since it's a family name, but she refused since it's also a common serial killer middle name.

 

[Mario Kart]

Bump Finley

 

[Chaka]

Tell me Two Dogs ####ing, why do you ask?

 

[Fennis]

moops?

 

[Fennis]

Marge: Homer, I've been thinking, if the baby's a boy, what do you think of the name Larry?

Homer: Marge, we can't do that! All the kids will call him `Larry Fairy'.

Marge: Well, how about Louie?

Homer: They'll call him `Screwy Louie'.

Marge: Bob?

Homer: `Flob'.

Marge: Luke?

Homer: `Puke'.

Marge: Marcus?

Homer: `Mucus'.

Marge: What about Bart?

Homer: Let's see... Bart, Cart, Dart, Ee-art... Nope, can't see any problem with that!

 

[the moops]

Bump Finley

 

[Doctor Detroit]

Jorge down?

 

[krista4]

All of the girls' names are good. I like Edgar or Eli of the boys' names.

Huge congrats, GBmoops.

 

[RudiStein]

Boys

arlo

edgar

eli

ellis

finley

wat

 

[the moops]

Boys

arlo

edgar

eli

ellis

finley

wat

My boy wont be named Bill or Bob or Ted or Steve.

 

[RudiStein]

Boys

arlo

edgar

eli

ellis

finley

wat

My boy wont be named Bill or Bob or Ted or Steve.

My youngest kid's name is Steve, hippy.

 

[Doctor Detroit]

All of the girls' names are good. I like Edgar or Eli of the boys' names.

Do you want him to grow up to be a vanilla extract salesman or a black Amish guy?

Huge congrats, GBmoops.

 

[the moops]

My youngest kid's name is Steve, hippy.

Sorry

 

[the moops]

Huge congrats, GBmoops.

I'll ignore the rest and take this part out. Thanks!

 

[krista4]

Do you want him to grow up to be a vanilla extract salesman or a black Amish guy?

Do I have to choose?

 

[RudiStein]

My youngest kid's name is Steve, hippy.

Sorry

I'm not.

 

[Doctor Detroit]

Do you want him to grow up to be a vanilla extract salesman or a black Amish guy?

Do I have to choose?

No but Eli might have to.

 

[the rover]

Have you considered Malik?

We brainstormed a list for boys and girls (again, way easier for girls), and the name we chose (Hannah) was one that we both happened to like the most in aggregate. My wife wanted to wait to see what she looked like, but I convinced her that no baby really looks like a name, so we just went with it.

 

[Gadfly]

Why do you hate your unborn child?

 

[the moops]

Why do you hate your unborn child?

Because it is turning my wife into a sickly, raging #####?

 

[krista4]

Have you considered Malik?We brainstormed a list for boys and girls (again, way easier for girls), and the name we chose (Hannah) was one that we both happened to like the most in aggregate. My wife wanted to wait to see what she looked like, but I convinced her that no baby really looks like a name, so we just went with it.

Hannah is a fantastic name. I guess I like the classic names like that and the ones moops has mentioned. I understand why Edgar might not be popular, but Eli seems like a strong name. Not a paste-eating kid. About a million times better than, for instance, Steve.

 

[Gadfly]

Have you considered Malik?We brainstormed a list for boys and girls (again, way easier for girls), and the name we chose (Hannah) was one that we both happened to like the most in aggregate. My wife wanted to wait to see what she looked like, but I convinced her that no baby really looks like a name, so we just went with it.

Hannah is a fantastic name. I guess I like the classic names like that and the ones moops has mentioned. I understand why Edgar might not be popular, but Eli seems like a strong name. Not a paste-eating kid. About a million times better than, for instance, Steve.

People never know whether to pronounce Eli as E-lie or eh-lee. You don't want that for your kid.

 

[krista4]

Have you considered Malik?We brainstormed a list for boys and girls (again, way easier for girls), and the name we chose (Hannah) was one that we both happened to like the most in aggregate. My wife wanted to wait to see what she looked like, but I convinced her that no baby really looks like a name, so we just went with it.

Hannah is a fantastic name. I guess I like the classic names like that and the ones moops has mentioned. I understand why Edgar might not be popular, but Eli seems like a strong name. Not a paste-eating kid. About a million times better than, for instance, Steve.

People never know whether to pronounce Eli as E-lie or eh-lee. You don't want that for your kid.

Really??? Agree that that would suck, but I'd never have thought of it as anything but E-lie. eh-lee? Isn't that spelled Elie, as in Elie Wiesel?

 

[Doctor Detroit]

Eli always cries

Eli likes butt flies

Eli poopu pie

Eli the Amish guy

Eli has charisma but lacks the social skills needed to advance to the 3rd grade and I suggest we hold him back. I think a lot of it has to do with his name, the school administration believes he'd be a better Darren or Chip. Sorry Moops family, you asked for this the minute you gave him that name.

 

[Doctor Detroit]

I like Ivy, Hannah and Elisa. My niece is named one of those, she's the cutest thing on the planet.

 

[bostonfred]

Why do you hate your unborn child?

Because it is turning my wife into a sickly, raging #####?

As someone going through the same process, your unborn child is not causing this. It's just expediting the process.

 

[the moops]

Why do you hate your unborn child?

Because it is turning my wife into a sickly, raging #####?

As someone going through the same process, your unborn child is not causing this. It's just expediting the process.

 

[bostonfred]

Here are the functional things I'm looking for in a baby name:

- recognizable. you don't want people to be confused when they hear the name. Al-lou-ish-us

- somewhat unique. you don't want them to be one of ten kids named brady in their class*

- not a perjorative. you don't have much control over this, but names like chester or lucius just about guarantee a rough adolescence.

- memorable. you want something where they can say, Fred seems like a good guy, and everyone know who Fred is.

- easily spelled. you don't want them saying, no, that's stephen with a "ph" a thousand times in their life if they don't have to.

- meaningful. family names are good. naming someone after the tibetian word for hope is a little too weird for my tastes.

- generational. I'm not seriously considering Fred jr., but I could. My wife asked me if I wanted to name our child after her brother. Maybe as a middle name, but no way that's a first name. sorry.

- positive memories - I don't want to name my kid after the guy who stole my first girlfriend. If I've ever met anyone with that name I'd like it to be someone I liked.

- famous people - It would be nice if I could point to great people in history and say, you share a name with that guy. Note that this does not include people who have yet to screw up their lives, like Miley Cyrus inevitably will

- longevity - A kid named Billy can become Bill or William later in life. A kid named Tiffany is going to be an adult** named Tiffany.

- works with my last name - I wouldn't want a kid named Marcus Moops, or Peter Moops, which is just begging to be nicknamed poops.

- Email friendly. I've mentioned my friend Sharon Lutz here before, who cried the day she got her first ever email address.

- cuteness - If I come up with ten more things, they'd all be ahead of cuteness on this list. Yeah, it'd be nice as an adult to be able to talk about the cutesy wootsy baby waby name for the year or two that they're young and won't even remember it. That's no reason to pick the name they're going to use for the rest of their life.

* this is a real issue in new england right now.

** entertainer

 

[Arsenal of Doom]

My wife and I both really liked the name Jack, so that was the only boys name ever under serious consideration. It would have been a little tougher if we had a girl, but since we knew by 20 weeks we never got that seriously into the discussion.

Just go with your gut and you'll be fine. As long as your gut doesn't say to name your kid Eli.

 

[by_the_sea_wannabe]

My wife and I both really liked the name Jack, so that was the only boys name ever under serious consideration. It would have been a little tougher if we had a girl, but since we knew by 20 weeks we never got that seriously into the discussion. Just go with your gut and you'll be fine. As long as your gut doesn't say to name your kid Eli.

Eli is a lot better than the other choices he has listed

 

[belljr]

Named by daughter after my grandfather.

 

[Carver]

Are you purposely trying to turn your son into a social misfit?

Go with Tyrell.

 

[Clayton Gray]

We named our son Aidan James. As a teacher for nine years, there were lots of names that reminded me of former students. This was also back when my wife was watching Sex In the City, and one of the characters was named Aidan. I had never taught an Aidan and thought the name was OK. James was a family name as both of my wife's grandfathers were named James.

 

[Clayton Gray]

It is going to be someone's name for their life. We don't want them to have a ####ty name like Chad or Gary or something arloedgareliellisfinley

Excepting "Eli", those boy names are worse than Chad or Gary or something.

 

[Da Guru]

Name after a famous person? A relative? Make up a name? Deep spiritual meaning?

Anyway, moops and moopette are prego. She's only like 11 weeks or so. We have a list of names (girl names are way easier to come up with than boy names), and we are tossing those names out to all out family and friends. Except my mom. She doesnt want to know any of the names until the baby is born.

But what the hell. We dont mind hearing people's opinions of names. It is going to be someone's name for their life. We don't want them to have a ####ty name like Chad or Gary or something

Here is what we like so far. Maybe I'll start a pole at some point. Not that I would listen to you clowns anyhow.

Girls

isla

elsa

etta

ellie

elsie

cecelia

ivy

penelope

ella

elle

cassidy

Boys

arlo

edgar

eli

ellis

finley

Is your son going to be a musician?

Don`t like Isla, Elsie, or Etta for the girls.

 

[Carver]

I had never taught an Aidan.

Something tells me that is about to change a little over the next ten years. Congrats on being a hipster.

 

[Thorn]

I like all the girl names except Cassidy.

I dislike all the boy names except Eli.

In all seriousness, why wouldn't you want your son named Steve or Joe or something like that? What's the downside?

 

[beavers]

We currently have a baby beaver in the oven ...

We at first thought it was going to be a boy. We liked Grayson for a boy. When we found out it was a girl, we thought about Gracyn but decided that Grace is cool too. I found that Grace is a fairly popular name ... But we're keeping it.

I like Ellie but would be concerned if that is too "frilly" for a professional name.

 

[Carver]

List of boys names for you... do your kid a favor.

Allan

Anthony

Bob

Bill

Brian

Chris

Craig

Danny

David

Edward

Eli

Frank

Fred

Gregg

George

Henry

Harrison

Ike

Ivan

Jason

James

Joe

John

Jeff

Kevin

Ken

Kwame

Leonard

Larry

Mike

Matt

Manny

Norman

Nick

Oliver

Peter

Paul

Richard

Ron

Russel

Steve

Shane

Shawn

Tim

Tyrell

Tom

Vincent

William

Wes

Zach

 

[NeverEnough]

Only good name on that list is Ella.

 

[Bob Lee Swagger]

IkeIvanOliver

 

[Tom Servo]

List of boys names for you... do your kid a favor. Brian

Personal favorite of mine. Mrs. Servo and I agree that I would name the boys and she would name the girls, subject to the other's OK. My eldest son is named after Nolan Ryan since he's my favorite baseball player ever, and my younger son was named after Darin Erstad who is a personal favorite of mine. Their middle names are regular names. I felt like we needed some new names in the family; now we have 'em.

 

[Jaysus]

We named our son Aidan James. As a teacher for nine years, there were lots of names that reminded me of former students. ... I had never taught an Aidan and thought the name was OK.

My wife and I were in a similar situation; before my daughter was born, neither my wife or I had ever met anyone with the planed name... I'm pretty sure it has been a top-5 name every years since

 

[Clayton Gray]

I had never taught an Aidan.

Something tells me that is about to change a little over the next ten years. Congrats on being a hipster.

Yes, except that I don't teach anymore.

 

[Billy Costigan Jr]

List of boys names for you... do your kid a favor. Brian

Personal favorite of mine. Mrs. Servo and I agree that I would name the boys and she would name the girls, subject to the other's OK. My eldest son is named after Nolan Ryan since he's my favorite baseball player ever, and my younger son was named after Darin Erstad who is a personal favorite of mine. Their middle names are regular names. I felt like we needed some new names in the family; now we have 'em.

But did you spell it Darin?

 

[the rover]

Gracyn

Now you guys are just making things up.

 

[Billy Costigan Jr]

My youngest kid's name is Steve, hippy.

Sorry

I'm not.

Let's consider, for a moment, his username."The Moops" is from the classic "Bubble Boy" episode of Seinfeld where a Trivial Pursuit question was answered "wrong" because "The Moors" was incorrectly spelled as "The Moops" as the answer on the back of the question card.

That he would choose that famous misspelling as his FBG identity perfectly explains why he thinks those boy names are even remotely acceptable, and why he has a problem with a name like Steve.

The only guy I can think of who should have a problem with that name is MITYH.

I mean really...Arlo???

BWA-HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

 

[desert rose]

Name after a famous person? A relative? Make up a name? Deep spiritual meaning?

Anyway, moops and moopette are prego. She's only like 11 weeks or so. We have a list of names (girl names are way easier to come up with than boy names), and we are tossing those names out to all out family and friends. Except my mom. She doesnt want to know any of the names until the baby is born.

But what the hell. We dont mind hearing people's opinions of names. It is going to be someone's name for their life. We don't want them to have a ####ty name like Chad or Gary or something

Here is what we like so far. Maybe I'll start a pole at some point. Not that I would listen to you clowns anyhow.

Girls

isla

elsa

etta

ellie

elsie

cecelia

ivy

penelope

ella

elle

cassidy

Boys

arlo

edgar

eli

ellis

finley

Is your son going to be a musician?

Don`t like Isla, Elsie, or Etta for the girls.

I agree with this. Isla is an island. Elsie is a cow. Etta is short for Henrietta. You seem really stuck on the "eh" sound as far as your name choices.Why do you hate your unborn child?

 

[beavers]

Gracyn

Now you guys are just making things up.

We're not the only ones http://www.babynamewizard.com/namipedia/girl/gracyn