BABY NAMES, what are your faves?

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

I have a student this semester named Priscilla - I like it. Also Camille - thought about that for Cinderella.

I knew I liked you! The daughter I didn't carry to full term was named Priscilla, and I've also liked Camille/Camilla. One of the PNMs for whom I wrote a rec but went ChiO was called Cammy - it seems so friendly, but classic.

[VandalSquirrel]

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

I have a student this semester named Priscilla - I like it. Also Camille - thought about that for Cinderella.

Originally Posted by honeychile

I knew I liked you! The daughter I didn't carry to full term was named Priscilla, and I've also liked Camille/Camilla. One of the PNMs for whom I wrote a rec but went ChiO was called Cammy - it seems so friendly, but classic.

The first thing that comes to mind is Queen of the Desert. There's also the possibility of the nickname Prissy, or mean children calling her Pissy.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by honeychile

I knew I liked you! The daughter I didn't carry to full term was named Priscilla, and I've also liked Camille/Camilla. One of the PNMs for whom I wrote a rec but went ChiO was called Cammy - it seems so friendly, but classic.

We have a Camilla friend who goes by Cam.

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by ASTalumna06

Priscilla sounds kind of.. stuck up to me.

LOL! My sister's best friend in HS was Priscilla. Her initials were P.B. does anyone remember those P.B Max candy bars in the early 90's? They had a commercials "PB Max Don't mean..."with lots of things that P.B. didn't stand for like "portly ballerina" and would show a fat girl in a tutu. It was really a peanut butter square covered in chocolate. ANYWAY, we started calling Priscilla, "P.B. Means Prissy B*tch." I don't think she liked it, but we all thought it was HILARIOUS. Ahhhhhhh, memories. She was a prissy b*tch.

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by VandalSquirrel

The first thing that comes to mind is Queen of the Desert. There's also the possibility of the nickname Prissy, or mean children calling her Pissy.

We had already planned on calling her Cissy as a preemptive strike.

And people who like Max or Maxwell - expect Maxi Pad nicknames.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by honeychile

And people who like Max or Maxwell - expect Maxi Pad nicknames.

Along with our version of the Dr./Justice test, that was the other test we had for kid's names -- the 7th grade test.

[ellebud]

The funny thing about the name Max..when I was a child it was a grandpa name. When my son was born Max and Maxwell was a trendy happening name. (Maxwell Schwartz for example..). Nowadays, in these parts half the dogs are named Buddy or Max.

Husband's brother's wife WAS nicknamed (by her mother) Prissy. And no, her name wasn't Priscilla or anything like that. Her mother just liked it....Prissy that is...as opposed to (swear) her father's nickname for her...Muffy...from Muffin. Again...no relationship to the real name.

[momof4girls]

Originally Posted by carnation

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. 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

Daughter #2 is Francesca. My mom and sister-in-law started calling her Chessa almost after she was born. As she's gotten older it's been shorten to Ches. Her friends at school sometimes call her Fran or Frannie (which I can't stand) and I asked her why she doesn't correct them and suggest Chessa or Ches. She said no, only family members can call me that.

[carnation]

I posted that 10 years ago and we have had so many adoptions fall through at the last minute that we can't even count them. Foster family gets the kids back even though they signed off on them, birthmother gets the kids back even though the first judge said no, kids are put into permanent foster care, you name it. The age range what we would accept has risen greatly now and it finally looks like something may happen for us this year.

Sometimes older children do want their name changed to start a whole new life. I know what one of my suggestions would be.

[thewasher418]

Originally Posted by agzg

Our list of "do not names" is getting longer the longer we wait to form babby since we have so many redundancies in both of our families.

Haha, nice.

In the past month, I've delivered countless Brayden/Jayden/Aiden/Cadens and all spelling variations thereof. I just smile and nod when the proud parents reveal that they've chosen one of those.

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by thewasher418

Haha, nice.

In the past month, I've delivered countless Brayden/Jayden/Aiden/Cadens and all spelling variations thereof. I just smile and nod when the proud parents reveal that they've chosen one of those.

We always had interesting names where I trained, but my husband and his friend Cliff tried to get every mother to name their babies after them, whether they were boys or girls. Cliff's answer for a girl was ShaCliffa. SMH, luckily none of the women took the bait. Stephen swears someone named their daughter Stephanie after him. He does have a big ego.

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by carnation

I posted that 10 years ago and we have had so many adoptions fall through at the last minute that we can't even count them. Foster family gets the kids back even though they signed off on them, birthmother gets the kids back even though the first judge said no, kids are put into permanent foster care, you name it. The age range what we would accept has risen greatly now and it finally looks like something may happen for us this year.

Sometimes older children do want their name changed to start a whole new life. I know what one of my suggestions would be.

Friends of mine adopted a daughter from foster care after fostering her for 3 years. She's 12 and one of her requests for things she wanted to do after her adoption was final was to change her name. Her birth parents were horribly abusive and they still live in the area. Not only does she want a new name so she can have a fresh start of sorts, but she doesn't want them to try and locate her (which would be easy as her birth name is very unique and it's not hard to figure out her adoptive parents last name and look her up.)

[Pirouette]

I have a female student named Hartley this year. I can't decide if I love it or hate it.

Also bumping cause my husband and I have decided to try for baby #2 soon!

[PGD-GRAD]

As a college instructor, I have seen my share of names. Each year, I scan my freshman class lists for interesting/classic/unusual names.

A name that CONSTANTLY comes up is Tiffany, even after 7 years. What has changed, though, is the spelling.

I am (for good or bad) a purist when it comes to names, so tweaks/clever spellings/phonetic spellings horrify me. But--to each his own!

Here are some of the spellings of Tiffany I have seen--and continue to see:

Tiffany (the classic) Tifany
Tiffanee

[IrishLake]

My good friend is pregnant with her 4th. They don't know babys gender yet, but it's name is Brady no matter what. I don't think I care for that.