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bostonfred said:
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
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Did you copy this or come up with this on your own? This is genius.They should print this off and give a laminated copy to everyone when they find out they are pregnant.
 
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When we changed our son's name when we adopted him we chose names with meaning, in more than one way.

His middle name was Christopher, which means "bearer of Christ", which we liked, so we kept that.

We had talked about trying to honor my dad if we had a son by having his initials be JC, which is what my dad goes by. So that also made leaving his middle name Christopher make sense.

So that meant we needed to try to find a "J" name that we liked. We ended up with Jonathan, which means "God has given" or "gift of God". We liked both the meaning and the name.

So his name still ties him to his birth parents (middle given name), reflects who we feel that he is (a gift from God), reflects what we hope he becomes (bearer of Christ) and also connects him to his grandpap.

 
CrossEyed said:
When we changed our son's name when we adopted him we chose names with meaning, in more than one way.His middle name was Christopher, which means "bearer of Christ", which we liked, so we kept that.We had talked about trying to honor my dad if we had a son by having his initials be JC, which is what my dad goes by. So that also made leaving his middle name Christopher make sense.So that meant we needed to try to find a "J" name that we liked. We ended up with Jonathan, which means "God has given" or "gift of God". We liked both the meaning and the name.So his name still ties him to his birth parents (middle given name), reflects who we feel that he is (a gift from God), reflects what we hope he becomes (bearer of Christ) and also connects him to his grandpap.
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Now that's a name, and with real meaning!
 
If you want your kid to be hip 18 years from now, you need to go with something that was popular pre-1950:

Frank will probably make a comeback.

Louis?

Lawrence is classy.

Theodore

Clifford

Oscar

Arthur

Ernest

Earl

Elmer

Floyd

Bernard

Everett

Otto - palindrome names will be big

Vernon

etc etc

 
beavers said:
Bob Lee Swagger said:
the rover said:
beavers said:
Gracyn
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Now you guys are just making things up.
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I would honestly pronounce that Grak-ine.
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This is one of the reasons why we decided to go with Grace. We are already a nontraditional family ... no reason to make it even more nontraditional with a different name.
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:mellow: If you're gonna break the mold, you really need to beat the #### out of it with a sledge hammer or go home.
 
CrossEyed said:
When we changed our son's name when we adopted him we chose names with meaning, in more than one way.

His middle name was Christopher, which means "bearer of Christ", which we liked, so we kept that.

We had talked about trying to honor my dad if we had a son by having his initials be JC, which is what my dad goes by. So that also made leaving his middle name Christopher make sense.

So that meant we needed to try to find a "J" name that we liked. We ended up with Jonathan, which means "God has given" or "gift of God". We liked both the meaning and the name.

So his name still ties him to his birth parents (middle given name), reflects who we feel that he is (a gift from God), reflects what we hope he becomes (bearer of Christ) and also connects him to his grandpap.
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Why stop there? Why not Jesus (with the pronunciation of xe-sus)?On a side note, I graduated with a guy that his name was Jonathan Crise. He slipped in a middle name of Jesus and the teacher didn't realize until after she said "Jonathan Jesus Crise." And all of the little kiddies giggled.

 
Bob Lee Swagger said:
beavers said:
Bob Lee Swagger said:
the rover said:
beavers said:
Gracyn
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Now you guys are just making things up.
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I would honestly pronounce that Grak-ine.
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This is one of the reasons why we decided to go with Grace. We are already a nontraditional family ... no reason to make it even more nontraditional with a different name.
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:mellow: If you're gonna break the mold, you really need to beat the #### out of it with a sledge hammer or go home.
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LOLSure, I have no problem with me breaking the mold with the sledge hammer ... But I'll also leave it up to my kid to decide on how far she wants to go with it.
 
the moops said:
RudiStein said:
the moops said:
Boys

arlo

edgar

eli

ellis

finley
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:cry: My boy wont be named Bill or Bob or Ted or Steve.
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Personally, I think parents get too crazy with this though. Everybody wants to be different. Unless they have meaning to you or your wife, I think it's silly to saddle your kid with a weird name just to be different. Personally, I don't like any of the boys names, but that's just me. (this coming from a guy who's son's name is Liam Atticus, and everybody was annoyed that we gave him a weird name too).

We had the middle name we both wanted (considered it for first name too, but backed off) and were deciding between names like Liam, Ethan, Ian, etc.. that we thought sounded decent with the middle name. My wife has a bit of Irish in her, so that's how we got Liam. We were doing the same thing for girls - had an interesting middle name after her grandmother, and were looking at first names that fit with it.

Have fun with it, and congradulations !!

 
Billy Costigan Jr said:
Tom Servo said:
Carver said:
List of boys names for you... do your kid a favor. Brian
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Personal favorite of mine. :goodposting: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.
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But did you spell it Darin?
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:yes:
 
KarmaPolice said:
(this coming from a guy who's son's name is Liam Atticus, and everybody was annoyed that we gave him a weird name too).
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LOOK AT ME!!! I LOVE OASIS AND TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD!!!!
 
CrossEyed said:
When we changed our son's name when we adopted him we chose names with meaning, in more than one way.His middle name was Christopher, which means "bearer of Christ", which we liked, so we kept that.We had talked about trying to honor my dad if we had a son by having his initials be JC, which is what my dad goes by. So that also made leaving his middle name Christopher make sense.So that meant we needed to try to find a "J" name that we liked. We ended up with Jonathan, which means "God has given" or "gift of God". We liked both the meaning and the name.So his name still ties him to his birth parents (middle given name), reflects who we feel that he is (a gift from God), reflects what we hope he becomes (bearer of Christ) and also connects him to his grandpap.
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What was his original first name?If he grows up and doesn't become a "bearer of Christ", would you be disappointed in him?
 
Mrs. TR & I are currently going through this process as well, with her at around 19 weeks right now. If it's a girl, we'll use her #1 suggestion, Marlee, along with my mother's middle name. My mother passed away 10 years ago, & we're using it to honor her.

As for a boy's name, that's where trouble has been reigning for the past couple of months. She's stuck on Harrison, which I like, but what I don't like is that there are no good ways to shorten this name. I don't dig "Harry," "Harris," or "Har," she Another issue that I have with this name is that we have a three syllable Irish last name, and I think Har-ri-son **-***-*** is a mouthful. Maybe I'm being too sensitive on this one.

I like Kyle for a boy's name, she doesn't due to a bad memory (not an ex). I've even tried to parlay "Harrison Kyle" as a compromise, but no dice.

We're also considering Ian, Ethan, Garrett, but can't seem to come up with anything.

Good luck, & try not to overthink it (like me.)

 
the moops said:
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 :thumbup:

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
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:SesameStreet: Brought to you by the letter "E" (9 of 17 [53%] only "c" has more than one besides "e"). No offense, hate most of those names, but like old-timey names nonetheless. Our kids are Leo and Violet BTW. Good luck, always a hard decision on names. Wife and I always argued over names.
 
the rover said:
CrossEyed said:
When we changed our son's name when we adopted him we chose names with meaning, in more than one way.His middle name was Christopher, which means "bearer of Christ", which we liked, so we kept that.We had talked about trying to honor my dad if we had a son by having his initials be JC, which is what my dad goes by. So that also made leaving his middle name Christopher make sense.So that meant we needed to try to find a "J" name that we liked. We ended up with Jonathan, which means "God has given" or "gift of God". We liked both the meaning and the name.So his name still ties him to his birth parents (middle given name), reflects who we feel that he is (a gift from God), reflects what we hope he becomes (bearer of Christ) and also connects him to his grandpap.
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What was his original first name?If he grows up and doesn't become a "bearer of Christ", would you be disappointed in him?
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ErikAnd I'd be disappointed, but not in him necessarily.
 
CrossEyed said:
the rover said:
CrossEyed said:
When we changed our son's name when we adopted him we chose names with meaning, in more than one way.His middle name was Christopher, which means "bearer of Christ", which we liked, so we kept that.We had talked about trying to honor my dad if we had a son by having his initials be JC, which is what my dad goes by. So that also made leaving his middle name Christopher make sense.So that meant we needed to try to find a "J" name that we liked. We ended up with Jonathan, which means "God has given" or "gift of God". We liked both the meaning and the name.So his name still ties him to his birth parents (middle given name), reflects who we feel that he is (a gift from God), reflects what we hope he becomes (bearer of Christ) and also connects him to his grandpap.
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What was his original first name?If he grows up and doesn't become a "bearer of Christ", would you be disappointed in him?
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ErikAnd I'd be disappointed, but not in him necessarily.
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I hope he grows up to be an athiest.
 
Spent a lot of my youth climbing and backpacking in W. Wyoming. Lot's of things in the area are named after the mountain man - Jim Bridger.

Wife loves the area too....both of us feel "connected" there. When she was preggers we spent some time up there...talked about baby names and such.

We didn't know the gender till he was born.

Son came...named him Bridger. It fits his personality well.

It's not a very common name but there are a few people around here with the name.

Had it been a girl we would have named her Amelia. Lot's of people might think...Amelia Earhart...but in all honesty I was in Seaside Florida having a beer one night and over heard a mother screaming at her little girl from across the parking lot..."Amelia...get yer ### over here!"

I was in a reflective mood and thought "Amelia...what a beautiful name." Wife liked that one too.

 
Gadfly said:
CrossEyed said:
the rover said:
CrossEyed said:
When we changed our son's name when we adopted him we chose names with meaning, in more than one way.

His middle name was Christopher, which means "bearer of Christ", which we liked, so we kept that.

We had talked about trying to honor my dad if we had a son by having his initials be JC, which is what my dad goes by. So that also made leaving his middle name Christopher make sense.

So that meant we needed to try to find a "J" name that we liked. We ended up with Jonathan, which means "God has given" or "gift of God". We liked both the meaning and the name.

So his name still ties him to his birth parents (middle given name), reflects who we feel that he is (a gift from God), reflects what we hope he becomes (bearer of Christ) and also connects him to his grandpap.
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What was his original first name?If he grows up and doesn't become a "bearer of Christ", would you be disappointed in him?
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ErikAnd I'd be disappointed, but not in him necessarily.
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I hope he grows up to be an athiest.
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That doesn't seem very nice.
 
siffoin said:
Gadfly said:
CrossEyed said:
the rover said:
CrossEyed said:
When we changed our son's name when we adopted him we chose names with meaning, in more than one way.

His middle name was Christopher, which means "bearer of Christ", which we liked, so we kept that.

We had talked about trying to honor my dad if we had a son by having his initials be JC, which is what my dad goes by. So that also made leaving his middle name Christopher make sense.

So that meant we needed to try to find a "J" name that we liked. We ended up with Jonathan, which means "God has given" or "gift of God". We liked both the meaning and the name.

So his name still ties him to his birth parents (middle given name), reflects who we feel that he is (a gift from God), reflects what we hope he becomes (bearer of Christ) and also connects him to his grandpap.
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What was his original first name?If he grows up and doesn't become a "bearer of Christ", would you be disappointed in him?
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ErikAnd I'd be disappointed, but not in him necessarily.
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I hope he grows up to be an athiest.
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That doesn't seem very nice.
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What if you generally like athiests better than thiests?
 
CrossEyed said:
the rover said:
CrossEyed said:
When we changed our son's name when we adopted him we chose names with meaning, in more than one way.His middle name was Christopher, which means "bearer of Christ", which we liked, so we kept that.We had talked about trying to honor my dad if we had a son by having his initials be JC, which is what my dad goes by. So that also made leaving his middle name Christopher make sense.So that meant we needed to try to find a "J" name that we liked. We ended up with Jonathan, which means "God has given" or "gift of God". We liked both the meaning and the name.So his name still ties him to his birth parents (middle given name), reflects who we feel that he is (a gift from God), reflects what we hope he becomes (bearer of Christ) and also connects him to his grandpap.
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What was his original first name?If he grows up and doesn't become a "bearer of Christ", would you be disappointed in him?
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ErikAnd I'd be disappointed, but not in him necessarily.
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Who or what would you be disappointed in? :thumbup:
 
babynamewizard.comwe liked some names.. cross-checked against the wiz and found out that 39 out of 100 girls born in 2008 had that name, for example.not a fan of there being 7 other girls in her elementary school class with the same name. we went off the grid.
 
We also have the issue of my parents and their terrible Boston accent. Because of that, we have eliminated Arlo.

 
DOn't discuss names with parents or friends or anyone cause you'll only be ridiculed...either too common, too different, too made up, too short, too long, etc.

We went with family names because that was important to me. Hubby picked our first sons name, named after him and his father but given the nickname DJ to distinguish within the family. I picked our second sons name, named for my maternal grandfather and father. 3rd son I picked the first name and hubby picked the middle name for his grandfather.

When I was pregnant on our third my mom asked if I was going to name him for my dad. "Again?" She aparently missed where I named my second son for dad.

 
Early_10 said:
DOn't discuss names with parents or friends or anyone cause you'll only be ridiculed...either too common, too different, too made up, too short, too long, etc.
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We will be discussing it with friends and some family. We are picking a somewhat strange name, we know that. But we dont want it too be too weird. We are fine with people mocking us and giving us advice. :shock:Although, our good friends named their kid Cash, so maybe our friends aren't the best people to be ridiculing us.
 
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