LOL at your comments...I just remembered that my great-grandfather was really upset because my great grandmother wouldn't let him name their daughter Alpha Omega (the beginning and the end--he only wanted one child).

And ForeverRoses, my family refuses to forget that when I was little, I insisted that my first daughter would be named Snowflake Rose.

Girls
Carolyn or Carole
Margaret ("Maggie")
Claire
Kate (but NOT Katy i.e. KayDee..so that might be a problem)
Emma

Boys
Declan (gotta pay homage to Elvis Costello...plus I really like the name)
Gabriel
Matthew
Zachary

I completely agree with you on this one! Unfortunately, Declan clashes with with our last name, so our son didn't get it. My name is on your list of girls' names. :)

When we had to select a name, I went to the Social Security Administration's website and made a spreadsheet of the most popular names based on applications for social security numbers. Anything in the top 20 was out of consideration for us since we have a common last name. Some of the most original-sounding names have become wildly poplular. Of the seven boys in my son's daycare class, there are two Trevors.

I like very girly names:

Emily
Grace
Chloe
Elizabeth
Eva
Victoria
Madeline
Olivia
Allison

I was so pissed when Rachel from Friends named her baby Emma - I knew that was the end of that name.

I have a harder time with boys' names.

A friend is expecting her first and asked for suggestions. We offered:

for a girl - Euthanasia
Mierda
Basura
Influenza
Melenoma

for twins - Conception and Contraception

for a boy - Hemlock
Flounder
Lucifer
Fecal
Groin

She said she liked "Gangrene" better as it had a melodius sound and could be used for either a girl or boy.

I'm sure that Mierda and Basura would have been great hits with the Hispanic community, along with Pendeja maybe.

And, my friend's grandson wanted to name his baby sister Daisy Pickles.

I have a friend who named her daughter Eva, they pronounce it Ev-uh, instead of Eva like Eva Longoria, which I hadn't heard of before.

I agree with the Rachel from Friends comment. It's insanely popular.
I lean toward more traditional names. Ideally if I had a girl, I'd like to give her my middle name, Jayne since it's also my mom's middle name.

Girls names I like:
Ella
Natalie
Lily
Caroline
Grace (potentially for a middle name)

Boys names I like:
Benjamin
Caleb
Theodore

I've been told the correct gaelic pronounciation is ash-lin :)

Would that be "Floozi" for short?

That was some sick, but funny stuff.

One of my friends goes into an insurance agency with a husband and wife that work together. The wife is known as Floozie. I have no clue what her real name is but my friend has a real tough time calling someone that.

Names you would have used
 

Were my last child a girl, she would have been named Catherine Acadiana - and called Cady. (Both my family and my husband's have a strong LA background.) He was a boy - William Henry - called "Liam".

I like using family names, or names with a connection. My eldest, Victoria Caroline, was named Victoria because 1.) I was in graduate school studying Victorian lit. when she was born and 2.) my Norwegian grandfather was named Tor. The Caroline is in homage to her father's family in North and South Carolina. My next girl's middle name, Alexandra, was because my mother is Sandra, and she was present at the birth. My first son is Jackson because that is my maternal grandmother's maiden name (wish it hadn't caught on with non-Jackson families!) and his middle name is Peter because his great-grandfather by that name was a sculptor in New Orleans, and our baby was baptized at St. Peter's Church. William Henry was named for his paternal great-grandfather. His father wanted to name him William Belcher (the family name) but I convinced him to use the ancestor's Christian names. Belcher? As a middle name????

Naming your child after a state is not unheard of, most of those names are Indian (Native American) however. The Native American's were in North America first before the English arrived.

Why would a person name their child after a state? For the same reason a person would want to name their child after a country they love so much or after a famous person they admire like Joseph 'Fighting Joe' Hooker or a movie character like Luke Skywalker.

Ever thought about it what way?

And you had to go on the defensive because?

You could name your kid poophead for all I care, I would still ask you why you chose that name. All you would do is tell me why.

loving the girl's names

emelia, ava, and taryn