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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.