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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Nov 30, 2012 21:49:49 GMT -5
I thought I wanted simple WASP names for my kids but not ones that were in the top 50. However, DD #1's name turned out to be a variation of the number 2 name the year she was born. People mis-pronounce her name often because they assume it is the more popular version. DD#2 I named after a Kennedy progeny because I liked the name. It's Gaelic and actually a boy's name even though the Kennedy is a girl.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2012 10:38:43 GMT -5
It's a pretty normal sounding girl's first name, with a unique spelling. -------------- Why do people do that? Why mess up a perfectly good name with weird spelling? It just complictaes things. It's not that complicated. Although, I was always annoyed that I could never get personalized pencils or a license plate for my bike as a kid. Most common name the year I was born, but the pencil people only stocked Sara, never Sarah. That said, I do take issue with people who violate pronunciation rules with their unique spellings. I was at the grocery the other day and my male cashier was named Dominique. I'll give you Dominic, or Dominick, or Dominiq or whatever you want to come up with. But Dominique is Domin-eek. That's the law.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2012 10:50:31 GMT -5
I like this thread. Naming children is about the only part of parenting that appeals to me.
I guess I'll stick with animals.
I would have named a human girl with my family history Eleanor Siobhan or Margaret Jean. My niece ended up with something weirdly similar to the first one, so that seems good enough. I like Timothy LeRoy or Nathaniel George for a human boy. Anytime I reference a fictitious child in a story or anecdote, I seem to call it "Timmy" - so maybe I'm set?
I name animals after fictitious characters rather than family members.
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Post by suesinfl on Dec 1, 2012 11:29:02 GMT -5
Both DDs were named for the season that they were born. DD1 not too common and DD2 not common at all. DS was named after Bob Dylan (last name not first). All common spellings and no nicknames other than "pet" names from immediate family and then not often.
Now if only I could get people to pronounce/write the last name correct. It's only 5 letters, but everyone wants to add a vowel to the end or to pronounce it with a Spanish variation. So we always spell it for people "last name" "A as in apple..... no, no vowel at the end"
I really liked the names Cecelia (Cece) and Miranda(Randi). But those were not acceptable by their father. Which now those names would not fit ether's personality.
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Post by weltschmerz on Dec 1, 2012 11:38:07 GMT -5
DS was named after Bob Dylan (last name not first). ---------------- You named your son "Zimmerman"?
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Post by suesinfl on Dec 1, 2012 11:40:47 GMT -5
lol, no Dylan.
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Post by weltschmerz on Dec 1, 2012 11:42:20 GMT -5
It's not that complicated. Although, I was always annoyed that I could never get personalized pencils or a license plate for my bike as a kid. Most common name the year I was born, but the pencil people only stocked Sara, never Sarah. -------------- It can get complicated. I have a few friends who gave their children ordinary names with weird spelling. I knew how to say it but not spell it. Every time I gave out birthday invitations or wrote Christmas cards, I had to keep scratching my head, then finally had to call the parent and ask "How the hell do you spell it, again?" I think it's silly, but that's just me.
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Post by dividend on Dec 2, 2012 18:11:56 GMT -5
It's a pretty normal sounding girl's first name, with a unique spelling. -------------- Why do people do that? Why mess up a perfectly good name with weird spelling? It just complictaes things. Well, in my case, I would like to name a girl my Mom's maiden name. So the spelling is already determined. It's pronounced like a pretty common girls name, and it's an homage to my mother and grandmother.
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Post by whoisjohngalt on Dec 2, 2012 18:46:18 GMT -5
We used the names of passed away relatives that we wanted to honor. In some instances it was an exact name, in some instances it was the first letter. In any case, all names are very plain, in a sense that I don't have to spell any of them. Some names are biblical, one is not, but very common.
We never had any interest in "unique" modern names.
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Post by Lizard Queen on Dec 3, 2012 1:52:07 GMT -5
It's not that complicated. Although, I was always annoyed that I could never get personalized pencils or a license plate for my bike as a kid. Most common name the year I was born, but the pencil people only stocked Sara, never Sarah. Really? I'm surprised. I would have thought the Sara spelling would be the more rare one. Maybe it's an age thing--I went to school with a Sarah, but no Sara's.
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Post by Lizard Queen on Dec 3, 2012 2:16:23 GMT -5
We chose names that we liked that were more traditional. If I were younger when I had my children, I probably would have chosen more unique, modern names. Now those names tend to sound silly to me. We avoided names that were already taken by family and friends, which made it a lot harder. My mother chose Michael for DS1. I didn't want to have her name him, per se, but my husband and I both liked it so it stuck. StepMIL strongly hinted to have us name him after DH's father, John. We didn't want to do that, per se, either, but we both liked Jonathan, so that ended up being the middle name. I also figured out the numerology, for the heck of it, and that was a good number--either 9 or 11. I can't even remember now--it wasn't that important, I guess...
DS2 is more interesting. We had a very busy stressful summer, so the baby-naming wasn't coming along very easily. We had the middle name already. My father's name was Frank and passed away last year, so we were definiately going with Franklin. My husband and I both liked Benjamin, but, Benjamin Franklin? We're not history nuts, so I didn't want people assuming DS2 was named after a former president. Sebastian Franklin was also out, too many --in sounds in a row. 2 1/2 weeks before my due date, I was getting really nervous. I sat down and really buckled down on choosing a name, so went to a few websites with lists. I would mention a name that I liked, and run it by my husband. We call Michael, Mikey for now while he's so young, so I really wanted a name I could do the same with for the 2nd son. I came across Joshua. I like it, my husband liked it, and it went okay with Franklin. I vaguely remembered that my mom hated it, but she already got her way with DS1. Joshie sounded cute for when he's little. I sort of settled on that in my mind, sit back and hear a pop (eerily similar to the pop I heard when my water broke the first time). I thought, oh shit! I hope that wasn't my water breaking! I got up to walk to the bathroom. No gushing water--huge relief there! Put the clothes from the washer into the dryer and went back into the family room to sit down. About 45 minutes later, I decided to call it a night. The family room is on the opposite side of the house as the master bedroom. I got about halfway there and a get a gush--oh Shit! I had the kid about 4 hours later. Turns out, my mom gave me such grief over the name, I probably would have changed it had I picked it earlier. But the way I see it, Joshie chose his name by choosing to come out as soon as I settled on it. 2 months later, I still haven't figured out the numerology # for him.
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Post by michelyn8 on Dec 3, 2012 9:48:55 GMT -5
My children's names are very normal names. DS was named after a character in a book series who ended up being my favorite by the time I finished thes series and his middle name was one I had always liked - both biblical names and easy to say. I just hate that when he went away to school, he adopted the one nickname I swore he wouldn't be called and I refuse to call him that.
DD1 was given a name I liked and my mother's middle name; DD2 a name I liked and my middle name. Both of their first names ended up being among the popular ones at the time - especially DD1 so there were quite a few with the same name in her class.
DGD has my first name as her middle name. Her first name is fairly unique but not original. It is the name of a band my daughter heard once. She liked the name. I had never heard of it before but apparently it does have origins in Gaelic and German and shows up in a name search on google.
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Post by teen persuasion on Dec 3, 2012 9:51:42 GMT -5
It's not that complicated. Although, I was always annoyed that I could never get personalized pencils or a license plate for my bike as a kid. Most common name the year I was born, but the pencil people only stocked Sara, never Sarah. -------------- It can get complicated. I have a few friends who gave their children ordinary names with weird spelling. I knew how to say it but not spell it. Every time I gave out birthday invitations or wrote Christmas cards, I had to keep scratching my head, then finally had to call the parent and ask "How the hell do you spell it, again?" I think it's silly, but that's just me. Even normal names can have 2 or 3 variant spellings. Some people just assume certain spellings are "correct". We've always used the nickname Xander for our son Alexander. I'm always surprised when someone writes it Zander; yeah, it sounds like that, but how do you spell ALEXander? Of course, he has chosen to use Alex in school (easier to spell when he was in Prek, I guess), so now he has 2 names just like DH and DS2 who sometimes use middle names, sometimes first.
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Post by muttleynfelix on Dec 3, 2012 10:08:33 GMT -5
It's not that complicated. Although, I was always annoyed that I could never get personalized pencils or a license plate for my bike as a kid. Most common name the year I was born, but the pencil people only stocked Sara, never Sarah. Really? I'm surprised. I would have thought the Sara spelling would be the more rare one. Maybe it's an age thing--I went to school with a Sarah, but no Sara's. My sister is a Sara and she could never find anything without the H. (She's 38 for reference). The majority of Sarah's at my school were Sarah and not Sara.
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Post by sheilaincali on Dec 3, 2012 10:40:15 GMT -5
My sister Sara- one of 5 in her graduating class was the only non "H"er. She always only found things with the "Sarah" spelling. Drove her crazy. She is 34 if that makes a difference. DH has like 7 kids named Tyler in his grade and nearly all of them have last names that start with the same letter (S). Weird spelling- I told told told my SIL not to spell my niece's name in some weird ass way. Did she listen? Hell No. So my niece is named "Alehsha" pronounced Alicia or Alisha. That kid will never ever find a cup, magnet, license plate, etc with her name spelled right on it. Everyone forgets the first "h" and spells her name wrong. imawino- Sheila misspellings I have received: Shiela, Shelia, Shela, etc. Frequently people forget my actual name (random business contacts, vendors, etc) and they call me "Shelly" because apparently that's close enough
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Post by thyme4change on Dec 3, 2012 10:43:47 GMT -5
I know a Zander and a Xander. Unfortunately, I can't remember which one is which. I just remember seeing their names on the soccer roster.
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Post by midjd on Dec 3, 2012 10:51:00 GMT -5
My stepbrother's name is Xander - I'm assuming it's short for Alexander, but I actually have no idea.
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Post by lynnerself on Dec 3, 2012 11:19:30 GMT -5
I gave my two kids common first names with normal spelling that had at least one nickname they could use if they chose. Their middle names are from my side of the family. DS has my maiden name and DD has my middle name. And traditionally, their last names are their Dads.
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Post by steff on Dec 3, 2012 14:08:41 GMT -5
We took a baby name book & both hubby & I made our own list of boys & girls names we liked. I put the lists on the fridge w/ a marker & we spent the next few month crossing off names from each others list that we didn't like. Once the lists were down to a manageable number of names, I made 2 new lists w/ first & middle name combos. We went thru the same cross off if you don't like method until it was down to a few choices. We then agreed on a boy & a girl name.
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Post by formerroomate99 on Dec 3, 2012 14:49:31 GMT -5
We have a pretty generic last name, so we picked fairly rare first names using the names of saints and paired that with a generic middle names. That way, they could go with (Initial of first name) + (middle name) + (last name) if they felt their first names would put people off.
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Post by thyme4change on Dec 3, 2012 15:02:43 GMT -5
My sister has a crazy difficult last name - so her kids are named 2 of the easiest, plainest first names you could stumble upon. I'm pretty sure her kids would have plain first names anyway - but her excuse is pretty sound.
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Post by lynnerself on Dec 3, 2012 16:30:49 GMT -5
My BIL (Gary) thought all kids should only have 4 letter 1st names so they could learn to write them before kindergarten. I think most kids are smarter than that. At least mine
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Post by Mardi Gras Audrey on Dec 3, 2012 17:33:41 GMT -5
I have a girl's name picked out. It is my great grandmother's name. It's a family tradition (my mom was named after her great-great gma, I was named after my Great, great gma, etc). It was a name that wasn't very common but now it is on the top 10 (Curse you, Twilight! ). FWIW, my great grandma was a terrific Bella and Kristen Stewart isn't fit to be a Bella! I haven't figured out things on the boy's side of the house yet. I'd love to name any boy we have after my DH (and his dad) but DH hates his name so we'll see....
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Post by ontrack on Dec 3, 2012 17:40:40 GMT -5
I don't know if I'll ever have kids, but if we have a boy, he'll be Samuel Dean. Named after a family friend, as well as the two main characters of Supernatural, my husband's favorite show.
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Post by Plain Old Petunia on Dec 3, 2012 17:58:50 GMT -5
It's a pretty normal sounding girl's first name, with a unique spelling. -------------- Why do people do that? Why mess up a perfectly good name with weird spelling? It just complictaes things. It's not that complicated. Although, I was always annoyed that I could never get personalized pencils or a license plate for my bike as a kid. Most common name the year I was born, but the pencil people only stocked Sara, never Sarah. That said, I do take issue with people who violate pronunciation rules with their unique spellings. I was at the grocery the other day and my male cashier was named Dominique. I'll give you Dominic, or Dominick, or Dominiq or whatever you want to come up with. But Dominique is Domin-eek. That's the law. Oh, me too!! If I ever could find my name (Tonya) on a bicycle license plate or a cup, it was inevitably spelt T-a-n-y-a. I've always hated my name. I don't know what my mother was thinking! My daughter is Stephanie Alicia, after my brother Steve and my grandma Alice. My son is Joshua Robert, Joshua because I love it, Robert after his dad.
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Post by Plain Old Petunia on Dec 3, 2012 18:14:38 GMT -5
We chose names that we liked that were more traditional. If I were younger when I had my children, I probably would have chosen more unique, modern names. Now those names tend to sound silly to me. We avoided names that were already taken by family and friends, which made it a lot harder. My mother chose Michael for DS1. I didn't want to have her name him, per se, but my husband and I both liked it so it stuck. StepMIL strongly hinted to have us name him after DH's father, John. We didn't want to do that, per se, either, but we both liked Jonathan, so that ended up being the middle name. I also figured out the numerology, for the heck of it, and that was a good number--either 9 or 11. I can't even remember now--it wasn't that important, I guess... DS2 is more interesting. We had a very busy stressful summer, so the baby-naming wasn't coming along very easily. We had the middle name already. My father's name was Frank and passed away last year, so we were definiately going with Franklin. My husband and I both liked Benjamin, but, Benjamin Franklin? We're not history nuts, so I didn't want people assuming DS2 was named after a former president. Sebastian Franklin was also out, too many --in sounds in a row. 2 1/2 weeks before my due date, I was getting really nervous. I sat down and really buckled down on choosing a name, so went to a few websites with lists. I would mention a name that I liked, and run it by my husband. We call Michael, Mikey for now while he's so young, so I really wanted a name I could do the same with for the 2nd son. I came across Joshua. I like it, my husband liked it, and it went okay with Franklin. I vaguely remembered that my mom hated it, but she already got her way with DS1. Joshie sounded cute for when he's little. I sort of settled on that in my mind, sit back and hear a pop (eerily similar to the pop I heard when my water broke the first time). I thought, oh shit! I hope that wasn't my water breaking! I got up to walk to the bathroom. No gushing water--huge relief there! Put the clothes from the washer into the dryer and went back into the family room to sit down. About 45 minutes later, I decided to call it a night. The family room is on the opposite side of the house as the master bedroom. I got about halfway there and a get a gush--oh Shit! I had the kid about 4 hours later. Turns out, my mom gave me such grief over the name, I probably would have changed it had I picked it earlier. But the way I see it, Joshie chose his name by choosing to come out as soon as I settled on it. 2 months later, I still haven't figured out the numerology # for him. I wouldn't have gone with "Benjamin Franklin" either, but he was never President.
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Post by Plain Old Petunia on Dec 3, 2012 19:08:28 GMT -5
For naming pets, I generally pick something that will not be confused with a human name (Ive made one exeption which is Ziva). I inherited one named JennaBear. I've had Sugar, Soccer, O'Malley, Butter, Scotch, Snickers, Tigerball, Face (as in the A-team), Dragonfly, Glaze, Spice, Ghost, Wolf to name a few. I do this because I had a good friend who's daughter I babysat named Hailey. My cousin had a dog named Haliey that I would dog-sit. See the problem? My dogs' names are actually all people names. And they all end in a -y sound. And I have 4 dogs. It gets confusing. Brody, Riley, Annie, Molly. Someone I went to high school with just had a baby and named him Brody. All I think is "that's my dog's name!" I told my DH that I want a french bulldog next and I am going to name him Pierre. Or François. I am naming my next male dog Ira.
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Post by Plain Old Petunia on Dec 3, 2012 19:12:11 GMT -5
When my grandfather went to apply for SS, his Birth certificate listed him as Boy XX. No one bothered to get his name on his birth certificate. So he picked his own name, which was his nickname, not the one his mother and father gave him! That sounds like an adoptee's original birth certificate. (Mine reads "Baby Girl").
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Post by Plain Old Petunia on Dec 3, 2012 19:14:13 GMT -5
My next cat will either be names Mr. Thomas Fluffypants or Officer Krupke. We haven't decided yet. I love ridiculous sounding pet names!
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Post by taz157 on Dec 3, 2012 22:16:30 GMT -5
My next cat will either be names Mr. Thomas Fluffypants or Officer Krupke. We haven't decided yet. I love ridiculous sounding pet names! Says the person with a cat named Nutmeg and another named Rascal. At the time, I couldn't think of ridiculous sounding pet names.
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