Favorite baby names
 

Okay I am kind of bored and thought another fun thread should be started.

So what this one is, list your favorite names you would give to your baby.

Now I know some people are very secretive/protective about the names they like, so I understand some sisters not wanting to post.

I know for me I'd be flattered if another sister liked one of the names I did and named their child it.

A great site to look at names is www.babynames.com. It lists names A-Z, then celebrity names, names from movies/tv shows, and the top 25 or 50 of the year.

So now on with the thread.....



Here are some of my faves (which I know I'm forgetting some).

boys

Caleb
Jonah
Nathaniel

girls

Madison
Arwen (I know its from LOTR, but I LOVE unique names. I don't want a name everyone has)
Annikah (MY ALLTIME FAVORITE!!!!)
Phoebe (to much Charmed. LOL)
Sydney (to much Alias)
Buffy (way to much Buffy :D )
Daphne

Unisex

Reese
Taylor

mr. honeychile & I do not agree on any names, so there are no big secrets:

Boys' names
Aiden
JohnWilliam
Peter


Girls' Names
Anneliese
Laura Lee
Maeve

At least, that's today's choice! ;)

Honey, I love the name Aiden.

If you don't mind me asking, what names does Mr. Honeychile want that you don't like?

Boys:
James Austin
Charles
Corbitt (family surname)
Sterling

Girls:
Grace
Emma Grace

These are all family names with the exception of Grace. It was my nickname when I was little because I was SOOOO clumsy. My mom would say, "There goes Grace" as I fell down, ran into the table, etc...... I am very senimental about strong family names.
I am going to love seeing everyone else's fave names!

All right, so the names I hope to someday use:

Girls:
Marissa
Rebecca


Boys:
Kevin - absolute must (no ifs, ands, or buts about it...the hubby has no say! :p)
Ethan
Caleb

*It's really hard for me to pick names - I don't want to use names that my cousins/aunts/uncles have used (since it's hard enough with me and my cousin's wife that have the same name), but there are SO many names I love and want to use (maybe I'll use them for middle names)

James Joseph (for his father, so I can understand)
Jeffrey (don't even get me started!!)
Jenna (the porn star's name!)
Jillian (tolerable)

Do we see a trend?

I didn't mention middle names, because they WILL be family names!

I also love Ethan, polarpi, but it's too hard to say with mr. honeychile's last name - I'd stutter continually!


ETA: Laura Lee is a combination of his mother & my mother's names, plus I've always liked it.

I didn't even consider last names, since my kids will (likely) have a hyphenated last name - when I get married (someday), I plan on dropping the second half of my hyphenated name and pick up the husband's last name. Now, if he's hyphenated, too, who KNOWS what I'll do! :p

Gotta keep the family last name going! :D

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The names we have picked out for baby number two are

Madaket Janie Elizabeth

or

Alexander Rodney

I really wanted Nan Elizabeth Marie, but daddy said no so we compromised.

The kids have a hyphenated last name of both of ours because as I pointed out the Mr. Jhujenn they do have two parents.

It's looking like we are going to be having a Madaket in August, but we will see when the baby arrives.

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Congratulations on your "expectations"!!!! Hope all goes easily, and that Baby Jhujenn is healthy! :)

One of my friends had a hyphenated last name (we'll say Smith-Jones) and married someone else with a hyphenated name (we'll say Brown-Anderson). She decided to take his whole name but their first child will be Smith Jones Brown-Anderson (it sounds a lot better with the really names....very Irish :) )

As for me:

Girls:
Cadence Elizabeth
Ana Marie

Boys:
Forest Christopher
Andrew Ryan

So far hubby and I have agreed on two of those and are still negotiating the other two :)

See, I don't mind dropping my "second" last name (which is really my first - long story), so if he DID wind up having a hyphenated, it'd only be three - I just feel bad for those kids when having to sign anything with short signature lines - such as those lovely checks when paying bills! :p

And I LOVE your choices - so wonderful :)

There are sooo many names I like, however when I have kids here are the names I plan to use

Girls:
Mackenzie Adrianna
Ella Genevieve

Boys:
Zachary Nathaniel
Matthew Rockwell

I really like the name Sydney (My mother was going to name me that, but at the time nobody liked it). However, now she named the dog Sydney so it is out for me.

My hubby didn't have much say in the names, except for the 2nd boy's name. :-)

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My brand new grandson (born April 20 at 3:37 AM) is named

Quillan Blaze McMurry

Quillan is gaelic for Cub :) and my son-in-law is an Irish boy!


But then again, my family has always been into ethnic names..

Erik William
Lars Rune
Nils Anders

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One of my 25 year old daughter's best friends is named Arwen.

When I met her about 10 years ago, I said "Oh did your parents like LOTR?" (remember this is WAY before the movie) and she said "why yes, you are the first person to get the connection". She was so tickled at last for someone to know about her name.

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That is so sweet!!!


CougADPi: I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the names Cadence and Forest!!!!!

Jhujenn: CONGRATULATIONS on baby #2!!!!! Crossing my fingers for a healthy baby.

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Thanks! Those are the two we have agreed on! :)

And I would like to echo the congratulations to Jhuhenn! Here's to a happy and healthy pregnancy!

Thanks guys. I really wasn't looking for the congrats I just like sharing baby stuff. I'm pretty sure we will be fine. It's basically the home stretch now since I'm due August 17th. The doctor keeps telling me labor is going to go much quicker this time. I'm really not looking for another 22 hour ordeal.

May I add Adrienna? :)

my mom's side of the family has this thing with "ette"s... so I def. plan on carrying on the tradition if I ever have any girls.

For girls I like:

Violet
Charlotte (a little too sex & the city? but very cute)
Juliet

For boys I like

Aiden ( a little too sex & the city? but still very cute ;))
Will (gotta love Orlando Bloom in Pirates of the Caribbean ;))
Greg (not sure why.. but I've always liked Greg)

Violette?
Juliette?
Alphetta?

j/k :D

HaHaHa

Our two children will be named:
Leah Anne
or
Leah Elizabeth
or
Leah Grace
or
Leah Catherine
or
Leah Emily
and
Noah Samuel
Obviously we haven't decided on a middle name for a girl yet!
Our last name starts with a W... so I don't know if I should be using a vowel for a middle name that might make a word: LAW, or LEW.
What do you girls think?

Sometimes it's nice to be able to use the initials as a "nickname" in a sense (now, in the L_W example, it wouldn't really be a nickname, would it? ;)) but as long as it doesn't spell anything obscene (which I know you would never do, adpi*nurse!) it should be okay, right?

(Can you tell I have a nickname using my initials as a word? :D)

I've always heard that it's good luck to have one's initials spell a word. It's one of the twists I've been considering with a last name starting with "E".

My second daughter's initials were MAB (Maridith Ann Backstrom) and she fit that personality (Mab = queen of the faeries)

Now she is a MAM and that drives her nuts ;). Her brother said since she got married she is all "grownupy". What a change :)

Well, the one I liked the most for a boy is

FENWAY

since our family is made up of Red Sox Fans (not to insult anyone's intelligence, but just in case you don't know, Fenway is the name of the stadium where the Red Sox play).

For girls, I like a lot of the same names as ASUADPi'
Daphne
Phoebe
and also Violet, of course!

You know, I could really go for Sophronia, if I could talk mr. honeychile into it. He likes "normal" names, and I like "unusual" names. I also like the southern tradition of using last names as middle names.

Responding to previous posts:
My daughter has a good friend named Cadence! (Cadence Reniece)

My cocker spaniel's name is Noah.

One of my sorority sister's name was Forest-she was beautiful-won Miss Derby Day in 1970.

I wanted to name my first daugher Sydney back in 88-way before Alias and OJ Simpson's daughter in the news.

Greg is a great all time boy name.

My husband got out of any girl name he didn't like by telling me he used to date someone by that name. Took me a while to figure it out....:rolleyes:

Names I love:

Mary Bay

Lucy Banks
(both actual names of girls in this area. I think the middle name is the mother's maiden name, or at least a family name)

Bella

I didn't put the girls names that I love the most-my daughter's names-

Mary Claire, and yes, she is called by both names-this is the South!

Lesley Elisabeth-from China, her birth name is Lele Gau.

You guys have wonderful threads! We're trying to adopt a sib group and may I pleeeaassse intrude while I share my dream names?

I like Chessa, Rose, Polly, and Piper. All with C middle names like the rest of our girls....we didn't do that on purpose but it kind of developed. My younger daughters, though, have always hoped that if we adopted sisters we'd name them after Disney Princesses like Jasmine and Ariel. I told them maybe those but no Mulans or Tinkerbells.

Let's see... Disney Princesses:
Snow White
Cinderella (Ella?)
Sleeping Beauty (Aurora)
Belle
Jasmine
Ariel
Mulan
Pocahontas

Ella, Aurora, Jasmine and Ariel are your best bets Carnation.
I can't believe you're adding to the "Carnation Nation" again!

I know someone named Tinkerbell. I'm not joking.

LOL - we had a Pocahontas who used to do our ironing!

I'd go with Arielle (the other spelling is unisex), or Aurora. I like your Chessa, and Rose (since you're a horiculturist). Chessa Rose sounds nice, but Rose Chessa doesn't exactly trip off the tongue.

Just out of curiosity, have you ever seen a British show called Keeping Up Appearances? The sisters are named Hyacinth, Rose, Violet, and Daisy. Hyacinth's last name is Bucket, but she pronounces it "bouquet".

Well, five of our kids will be off in college or almost married by the middle of May so we're feeling a big gap, believe it or not!

I was thinking... the good fairies called Sleeping Beauty "Rose" when she was living in the forest with them, so maybe that would work! But I remember that when our first son was born about the time that The Little Mermaid came out, his older sisters were really upset that they couldn't name him Ariel. Ditto 2 years later when they couldn't name the new baby boy Belle.

Cream, I believe you. AGDAlum and I know someone named BoPeep.

Honeychile, I've thought about Rose Chessa. I'm gonna have to do some convincing to get my husband to think about Chessa at all because he keeps saying, 'I don't want to name our child something that my stupid hippie cousin came up with!" but...I really like it!

A lot of people thought I'd want to name all my girls after flowers but only 2 have plant names and it was because we just liked the names!

The C middle names I can think of and like: Ceslie, Chaille, Caithla, Cynthia, Caroline, and Crescent (yeah, I know it's unusual but it's from a book I like).

My middle name was almost Challice or Carlin (family last names), but I ended up with another "C" name, after a favorite aunt. I think keeping up a pattern in naming, especially when you have a lot of children, is cool, even though "they" say that you shouldn't.

Where are you adopting from this time, Carnation?

We hope to be adopting domestically!

Okay I must admit that I love the Disney names of Ariel, Belle and Aurora. :D

Carnation, I hope everything goes smoothly for you and Mr. Carnation on your quest on adopting another child. Although this is a mini hijack question, don't you have another daughter going through recruitment this fall? And if I may ask, what houses are your other daughters members of? (end of my mini-hijack of the thread I started. LOL)






I have to admit that I love the name Rowan (which is what I believe Brooke Shields named her daughter)



Honey, I'm totally with you, I like the unusual names and I'll probably end of marrying someone who wants "normal". Normal is boring. :D

Mini hijack! I have 2 AOIIs and 2 Chi Os. So with Pi Phi, she's a legacy to 3 but only 1 is on the campus she'll rush at.

Thanks for the good wishes on adoption--I really, really pray we'll get a sib group. Although not the 6 boys and 1 girl group I was told about today--I want majority girls!

I hear you guys about the husbands who want "normal" names--my husband and I have wrangled for weeks at a time over the more unusual girl names I like! I really wanted to name one "Sunday" and he would retch every time I brought it up.

End mini hijack!

oh, PS--Honeychile, I haven't seen the show--all I've seen on TV for the last 8 years is the news.:eek:

I was working on my genealogy the other night, and was reading through a cemetery online (yes, they exist). Sometimes, you see a little "story" played out in a way.

First was Baby Gardiner, infant of James & Cindarella Stoner Gardiner, died April 21, 1820 (I'm guessing at the year).

Then was Cindarella Stoner Gardiner, died May 10, 1820. (eta: she was 21 years old.)

Then was James Gardiner, died November something, 1870.

Then was Beauty Stoner Gardiner, died January, 1875.

So, obviously, the Stoners named at least two of their daughters Cindarella and Beauty!

And you thought naming your child something unusual was "new"! ;)

Hey...my cat when I was growing was named SUNDAY...we also had a Saturday and a Monday....

A furry three day weekend!!!

I love my mother's dog, Buffy, so much, I've been considering getting a bichon of my own. I've been saying that I'd name it Muffy, Fluffy or Duffy - or Rocky.

Rocky would be short for "Rocket Scientist". We say that my mother had a choice between cute and smart, and Buffy is the cutest dog on four paws!

BTW, when I was an advisor, most of the chapter was named either Heather or Amy - fairly easy to get everyone's attention quickly! But the twins were Aimee & Angie, which cracked me up - can you tell they were born in the late 1970's?!