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I love Justin for a girl but I feel like it only works to name a girl a really boyish name if she ends up being girly! bc if she's a huge tom boy it could cause problems

Good to know and glad we enjoy names :):p:)

I will just say my sons name is very old fashioned. It hasn't been in the US Census top 100 boys name since about 1910. I don't know anyone else with the name who is under the age of 70, except for a stand-up comedian who I've heard on the radio (Bob and Tom show).

I don't have children (yet). We've pretty much got potential girl names figured out, but we better not ever have a boy. My husband, my dad, and my brother all have the same first and middle initials, and I'd like to stick with that, but my husband is determined that his dad's middle name should be our hypothetical future son's name. His dad's middle name is AWFUL. Really, really, serial-killer-esque AWFUL. So we just need to not have boys ...

Sticking with my original list. :)
Adding Gabrielle ** GOD is my Strength

I LOVE Gabrielle for a girl, and I love Xavier for a boy. (Either would be on my list should that "oops!" ever happen). I know a little girl named Xaviara, too, though I like the male version better.

I'm not a huge fan of the trendy names that it seems EVERYONE is naming their kids right now. I know more girls named Maddie, Addy, Bella, Ella, Ava, Olivia, Sophia, Emma, Emily than I can remember!

I really like Xavier too but it's really too common here from me to want to use it.

My siblings and I have pretty traditional names, so I'm partial to that. I also like using family names.

If I had a girl:
Margaret Grace
Caroline Moore
Anne Elizabeth
Madeline Marie

Boy:
Campbell Allen
William Owens
John Carlton
Garrett Aubrey


I wouldn't do that, but I dislike juniors + in general. An ex and I had talked marriage and he was a IV...I remember saying I was not down with a V. I'm willing to bet I would have had to fight that battle tooth and nail because it's too hard to stop once it's been started. So...I don't want to start it. I'm sure whenever he does have kids he'll feel obligated to continue the tradition.

BUT my first name is a family middle name for girls (it's my mother and grandmother's middle name, another great-gran's middle name and one's first name) and I do seriously consider carrying that tradition on.

I knew a girl named Justin in high school...she was really athletic and I'd say not very girly, but she was also really really pretty and wore feminine clothing, so it balanced out. Kind of the perfect name for her: tomboyish but cute. It can work for tomboys too!

Not necessarily. My brother is a IV, and while he doesn't mind it at all, he had no intention of having a V. He has two sons, and each has one of his names (one as a first name, one as a middle name just like in my brother's name), but both go by names other than the ones they share with my brother.

Meanwhile, co-sign on family names. We didn't consider any that weren't family names.

What a fun thread....

Girl names: I do know that I want my grandma's name, Beatrice, in my daughters (when I hopefully have one, as I have no kids yet) name somehow.

Gracelyn
Kimber
Liesel (homage to my German ancestry)
Tallulah
Taryn
Blakeney
Esme (homage to Twilight)
Tanith
Emmalyn
Randall (heard it on an SVU episode for a female, thought it was cool. Plus my dad's name is Randy)
Sabine

Boys:

Noah
Tristan
Wyatt
Jacob
Hamilton
Hank
Jonah Reese (I've loved this name since I was 15)
Caleb

This kid's family is pretty intense...I'm willing to bet he'll have to. But yeah, I'm sure it depends on the family. I like family names because there's that sense of tradition and heritage, but I'll probably do it the same way my parents did which is to give us kids one name from each side of the family. (My first name is from my mother's side and middle from my father's, and the same is true of my siblings.)

Which means all of those first and middle name combinations I picked won't work, but oh well.

I'm also going to use my kids' first names as the names they're called...as in they won't be called by their middle name.

I agree. Our son actually goes by a surname found on both sides of the family -- my grandmother's maiden name and my wife's great-grandmother's maiden name. (Yes, he's one of those Southern boys whose given name is a family surname. And the name he goes by is his middle name.)

I've got a lot of last names on my list of boys' names...I can't help it. Some of them just make really good names. :) I just wish I could use my own. I can't, as it's ridiculous.

I'm so jealous of people who can use surnames as given names - it just doesn't work with Italian surnames. Even so, I can't get rid of the deep seated Italian (or Catholic?) belief that you must sohelpyouGod name your child after a saint. My mom is serious about that.

As for keeping names in the family, many Italians will name their first son after his paternal grandfather, their first daughter after her paternal grandmother, their second son after his maternal grandfather, and their second daughter after her maternal grandmother. My mom is one of four - two boys, two girls - who follow this tradition. It's also the reason my father has a brother and four fist cousins who all have the same first and last name.

One of my many nerdy hobbies is name meanings and origins, so I love this thread!

For a girl, I've been thinking Cassandra Morrighan Lastname. The Cassandra, because I like Cassie as a nickname for a girl. Morrighan, because it's an old Irish name and reminds me of my great-grandmother.

For a boy, Robert Preston Lastname. It just sounds very grownup and executive.

Interesting, we broke that rule entirely. Our first names are all unique to the family and our middle names are all 'for' people. Mine for my maternal grandfather, my sister's for our paternal grandmother, my brother for our paternal grandfather and my other brother for my dad.

Actually that probably says a lot about my mom's relationship with my Nonna more than anything ;)

My parents also broke that tradition - it's very old school. If they had my first name would be Joseph, which I'm not particularly fond of, especially compared to my first name - which I prefer in it's full form and not it's nickname, thank you very much. My first name is after my godfather and my middle name is my father's. My sister's first name is completely random, but her middle name is for our paternal grandmother.

My husband and I are set on Lucas for our future son (after my father who passed away when I was younger). Not sure on the middle name yet but we should have a few more years before we have to think of one.

The girl names are up for debate. I really like Kassidy or Kassandra. Other favorites are: Kaylynn, Kandace, and Kristen.

After teaching for many years my list of names I'd never name my children is far longer than names I like.

Top Names of 2010 from Yahoo
http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/paren...-2010-2418678/

Top 10 Girls’ Names of 2010
Sophia
Isabella
Olivia
Emma
Chloe
Ava
Lily
Madison
Addison
Abigail

Top 10 Boys’ Names of 2010
Aiden
Jacob
Jackson
Ethan
Jayden
Noah
Logan
Caden
Lucas
Liam

The article has links for the top 100 of each gender also.

I'm all over the place.
 

Marselina would be my first choice for a name. My grandmother's name was named Marcellina, thats who I'd name my child after. But if we ever tried to giver her a nickname, I like the spelling of Selina rather than Cellina.

If i went with a theme...

Kaydence Alyssa
Kennedy Alison
Kamryn Alicia (not "eleesha" but A-lee-see-uh)

I might throw Emersyn Grace in there to mix stuff up.

For boys,
Damon, Kerrigan, Kirian, Keaton, or Kasey
if I side with my "brown-ness" for boys I would consider.
F-a-u-s-to, (GC Won't let me spell out the name, it just turns into ****) Salvador, Vicente,