BABY NAMES, what are your faves?
 

Okay, I have 5 pregnant women in my life right now all demanding I help them find the perfect baby name. (The pleasures of having tons of sisters.) You see, usually I'm pretty good at this, I am a voracious reader so I've gotten many of my ideas from my favorite books...but I think I'm running out of ideas, I need help. So, what are your favorites? Boy or girl, out-there, or eternally classic, I need them all...the 5 sets of parents have very different personalities so I need all kinds of suggestions.

violets

Here are a few...

Girl:

Chloe
Cadence
Kyle
Lucy

Boy:

Colin
James
Reagan
Ty

NOTE -- But none of these are the best because those are secret! (Did anyone ever see the Sex and the City about Charlotte's secret baby name, Shayla?)

That episode was hilarious!

I like:
Andrew
Christopher
Matthew

Drew
Katherine
Shelley
Ashley
Ashland

I can't think of anymore right now.

Isn't Kyle a boy's name? Reagan is the name of Linda Blair's character in The Exorcist. James will be happy that you like his name. :)

I also read lots of books (romance mostly).
The names I like are:

Samantha
Adrianna
Corinne
Magdalen or Magdalena (after my great aunt)
Melanie
Rosalie

Mathew
Tyler
Camren
Zane
Christian
Bradly

Kyle is also a girl name; I know four of them that are girls.

I know a baby boy named Kyle and three girls named Kayla. That's similar.
I personally won't put down my hypothetical baby names because of SATC Shayla also. ;)

First, yes, the SHAYLA episode was HYSTERICAL. I totally understand that we're not sharing our secret "Shaylas", that would be ridiculous. However, you know there are names that you love but you'd never be brave enough to name your own kid, well, some of these parents are BRAVE. I'm just trying to steer them away from a complete disaster!

So far the suggestions are fabu!
thanks!!!

Boys:
Beau &
Gage (my boys)
Carter
Parker
Zach
Dan (not Danny -- Dan)

Girls:
Carter
Eve
Lucy
Wallis
Ariel
Elysia
Clementine!

I also recommend looking to the soaps. Those characters have great names.

Boys:
Noah
Jackson
Anthony
Luke
James (that my daddy's name)


Girls:
Reagan
Michaela
Mercedes
Elena
Isabel
Chloe (i love this name)
Avery

I know more good names but i can't really think right now, my mind is crammed with accounting notes he he. But i hope this helps

I'm so impressed!
 

Oh, these are soo good! I knew this was the right board to ask! Greeks always come through!

My opinion!
 

Ok, let's see (hey this is a guy's opinion)

Kayla (my sister just had a baby on Sept 3 - her name is Kayla)
Alexandra (her middle name)
Emma

Matthew (eventhough it's really common)
Nathan
Gregory

After working with kids all summer thought I'd add some of the cute names I came across, plus coming up with potential baby names is a favorite diversion from studying for my friend's and I!

Girls:
Bailie
Kennedy
Caroline
McKenzie
Morgyn

Boys:
Roark
Colton
Parker
Preston
Brandt

I also love the name Reagan!!

i definitely am not feeling you all on some of these baby names:confused:

my faves are emily and molly

Girls:

Kaitlyn - but overused
Davin - female of David (Gaelic)
Amily - pronounced ahmily
Emily
Amelia
Kylie

Boys:

Craig
Blain
Christian
Philip - NOT Phil
Fisher

edited bc I forgot Keagan!

Our daughter's little girl is named Jolee -- which I think is a pretty neat name.

Naming 13 kids has been a real trip. My husband wanted to be really involved in naming them but the problem was that he had no clue about what children are named now--he kept suggesting fifties names like Debbie.:rolleyes: Also, since the first 2 girls had middle names starting with C, he insisted that we (meaning I) should come up with a C middle name for each girl.

He was very agreeable about the boys' names but it took forever to name the girls! I swear that we will have at least one more girl, though, and I know what I want to name her even though he doesn't care for the name because his hippie cousin suggested it. She will be:

CHESSA

Hmmm... Names I love but might not actually use...

How about:

Devon
Tegan
Laine

Personally I think you can go cute on girls names but should stay traditional for boys so I don't have any suggestions there.

I agree that it's easier to name a girl something more unusual. Some names I like:

boys:
-Brennan Marshall (after my two favorite Supreme Court justices)
-Benjamin (traditional but very, very good)
-Teague (means "poet" in Latin if I recall correctly)
-Tobias (or Toby for short)
-Holden

girls:
-Anicca (if I'm remembering correctly, it's a Pali word that means "impermanence" and it's always been my dream name for a girl, although I'm not so sure I'll ever have a kid)
-Noelle (my middle name which I think is darn cool)
-Sage (would also work for a boy, I think)
-Thoreau
-Camille

for twins, a little cheesy, but:
Franny & Zooey :D

Baby names was something that was discussed at length in one class I had my senior year of HS...

names I like

Girls:

Penelope
Melinda
Alli
Tara
Katie (not Kate)

Boys:
Van
Anson
Gus (had a camper this summer who was really cool named this)
Graig (like Greg)
Brandon
Thomas


On the whole I like shorter nicknames for girls, but not for boys (my little bro is Daniel not Dan, and I prefer David over Dave, Thomas over Tom, so on and so forth) with the exception of my own...who knows maybe when I start Grad school I'll go back to Geoffrey, but for now Geoff or even Geo.

hehe, what a cute thread!!!
Girls:
Madison, Mackenzie, Mercedes, Ryan, Carter, Taylor
Boys:
Bryce, Taylor, Sebastian,

Be sure to check out The Institute for Naming Children Humanely

It is good satire, but the guy makes some valid points.....Lord knows I have had to spell, spell and re-spell my name for people my entire life (not to mention correct their pronunciation...) :rolleyes:
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A child's name is the most important label he or she will ever receive. It will stay with the child throughout their whole lives. Parents who choose names poorly create misleading labels for their children. These labels can cause their children to be mocked, stereotyped, or ostracized. Mocked, stereotyped, and ostracized children grow to become demented adults.

What Constitutes a Bad Name?

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The "Scrabble Draw" Category
The "How About Another Last Name?" Category
The "Unfortunate Connotation" Category
The "Bogus Blue-Blood" Category
The "Found It On This Here Map" Category
The "Abstract Quality" Category
The "Common Noun" Category
The "Multicultural Mish-Mash" Category
The "Let Me Spell That For You" Category
The "Named Him After My Favorite..." Category


Special Categories of Bad Names

The "Aw, Any Middle Name Will Do" Category
The "Funny The First Time" Category
The "Twins? How Cute" Category

Not my top choices, but personal favroites...

Girls:
Alyce (Alice)
Ryan
Lily
Janelle
Lydian
Serene

Boys:
Miles
Xavier
Patrick
Jaime
Anson
Christopher

Aww... come on... what's wrong with that??? ;) I've got some of the best names from road signs:

Marianna Prosperity
Zekiah Swamp

Ok, seriously... I love the name Elizabeth Ann, but I will never name a child that, because that is my husband's mother's name, and I REFUSE to use "family names" for our (future) children.

My favorites for girls are
Kindle
Rebecca


My favorites for boys are
Landon
Hunter
Dayton
Matthew

All right, I've already sent a compilation of these suggestions to my respective sets of expectant parents and they are getting extremely postive responses. Jolee and Chessa actually have both gotten a big postive response.
Which is good because this set of parents were considering Jemima as their front-runner for a girls name. Now, I don't want to offend anyone if their given name is Jemima, but really, can you think of anything but pancake syrup hearing that name?
violets

got to weigh in on this one...

I HAVE one of those romance-novel names: Carlisle Elizabeth. My first name is pronounced CAR-lye-el. It's an old family name, although the last Carlisle in the family, my father's aunt Carlisle Florence, hated it so much she went by her middle name.

It's been interesting growing up with an unusual name. I'm okay with it now that I am an adult, but when I was a kid I couldn't stand it...I'm wavering as to whether I'd recommend that anyone else give their kid that name. To this day, people can't spell it, and often they ask me what my first name is. Guess I fall into that "How About Another Last Name" category :) And forget personalized anything. I guess the name you grow up with colors your perspective on baby names. I think my kids are going to be named Michael and Emily, or Harry and Hermione (Her-my-oh-nee), ha ha.

Edited to add: From someone who has a non-gender-specific name, give your kid one that is. I get a lot of mail addressed to Mr. Carlisle ____, and I got a letter from the Selective Service in high school asking me why I hadn't registered. Sorry, sir, I couldn't pass the physical.

When/If I have children, I want to give them names that are original enough that their aren't ten classmates with the same name, but not so unique that they get their a$$es kicked. :p

Girls' Names:
Amalie
Caroline
Elisabeth
Katherine (Kate)
Madeline



Boys' Names:
Robert Christopher (If I have a son, he will be named that after my father and my now-boyfriend-hopefully-soon-to-be-fiance's father)
Laurence (after my grandfather)

for girls I like:
Skylar
Caitlin
Brynn
Kylie

for boys I like:
Bailey
Reilly
Brady

Girls:
Vanessa
Veronica
Lyndsey
Kirsten
Hallie
April
Britney
Brooke

Boys:
Brendan
Dillon
Travis
Jason
Brian

KappaStargirl, do you go by "Carly/Carli"?

I am all about uncommon names, but I usually like ones that can be shortened to something else.

Jemima??? I have to agree with you that it would be a big NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! That poor kid would be called Aunt Jemima her whole life, which would be very unfortunate for her.

Top Ten Names in 2001
 

MALE FEMALE
1 Jacob Emily
2 Michael Madison
3 Matthew Hannah
4 Joshua Ashley
5 Christopher Alexis
6 Nicholas Samantha
7 Andrew Sarah
8 Joseph Abigail
9 Daniel Elizabeth
10 William Jessica

Yes, I go by Carlie (mom and dad weren't content to use a conventional spelling of the nickname :) ). Or at home, I'm Carlie-Courtney-Amanda, my sisters...argh, how come THEY got the normal names?

My Favs:

Girl:
Star
Celeste
Rachel
Rebecca
Genesis (I thought the real world girl had a pretty name)

Boy:
Ryan
Alex
Andrew

Side note: I remember going to some website that gave you a list of names and then gave you the potential "funny names" your child could have. There was at least SOMETHING for every name. "Jennifer" had some pretty interesting ones that I have never even heard of.

Someone mentioned that Reagan is the name of the girl in the Excorsist, but it's also the name of one of the evil daughters in King Lear. Cute name, bad connotation.

I think it's important to give your child a name that most people have heard of. It's ok to be different, but there is a line that shouldn't be crossed.

I have a somewhat unusual name, which is cool because it sets me apart, but it's also annoying to have to correct people all of the time. I can't tell you the number of times I've heard, "Oh, it's Donielle, not Danielle? I thought that it was a typo."

My boyfriend is Indian, and I still can't pronounce his name correctly, even after 4 1/2 years. He has vowed that even though he would like his children to have Indian names, he told me that "they have to be ones that white people like you can pronounce." :p

Re: BABY NAMES, what are your faves?
 

I have the same problem

What is wrong with:

Boy:

Thomas or Wyatt?:D

Why have weird names like streeter, or some of the new hippie names that some of the stars are coming up with!

I try to use the KISS Principle!

Keep It Simple Stupid!

my god son's, liam patrick