BABY NAMES, what are your faves?

[GeorgiaGreek]

I love the name Claire for girls and James for boys, but my family has stuck to the same little pool of names/derivations for a while, and those two aint in there.


I think it was azag who said they couldn't stand the name McKenzie - I'm the same way. I detest this name and I have no idea why; I don't know a single McKenzie that well, never watched a TV show with a McKenzie character I disliked...the name just makes me cringe. I think it might be because so many people butcher it with ridiculous spellings. MaKenzee, MuhK3nzeE.... (maybe not the latter one).

Seeing the name McKayla, like McKayla Maroney, also bugged me. Michaela is the feminine form of Michael, and a pretty traditional name, but that spelling makes it look like a pseudo-Irish version of Kayla. Or something on the dollar menu at McDonald's.

[BraveMaroon]

Originally Posted by GeorgiaGreek

Seeing the name McKayla, like McKayla Maroney, also bugged me. Michaela is the feminine form of Michael, and a pretty traditional name, but that spelling makes it look like a pseudo-Irish version of Kayla. Or something on the dollar menu at McDonald's.

Co-sign. I remember thinking that McKayla sounded like a slutty burger the first time I saw it.

I have a co-worker whose wife just had a baby girl - they were torn between Kennedy and Reagan.

Which...seem like two very opposite choices.

They went with Kennedy.

[TPARose]

I have a bit of a vent: Why do parent's keep in hijacking boy names for their baby girls?! Good girl names abound, while good boy names are few. I wanted to gouge out my own eyes when Jessica Simpson announced her baby's name.

If you look at the top 10 baby names for boys, they don't change as drastically as girls name. There just isn't as much acceptable variation. With every baby girl named Maxwell, or Riley, or Ryan, it becomes less socially acceptable for boys to be called those names. I realize that it's a double standard, but could you imagine a boy being named Melissa or Jennifer? To be honest, I think boys names for girls is cute, but it just narrows down the options for parents of boys.

I had a boy last year, and I consider myself lucky.. My husband was John III, so my son became the John IV, although we call him Jack. I didn't have to come up with a name. But my sister had a boy at the same time and it took her a while. She settled on Logan, and guess what? Of the three Logans born at her birth center, one was a girl. Sigh.

End rant.

Favorite Girls Names: Veronica, Isla
Favorite Boys Names: Graham, Miles

[thetygerlily]

Originally Posted by TPARose

If you look at the top 10 baby names for boys, they don't change as drastically as girls name. There just isn't as much acceptable variation. With every baby girl named Maxwell, or Riley, or Ryan, it becomes less socially acceptable for boys to be called those names. I realize that it's a double standard, but could you imagine a boy being named Melissa or Jennifer? To be honest, I think boys names for girls is cute, but it just narrows down the options for parents of boys.

I totally agree. There are so few boys names in comparison to girls- even taking out the million spelling variations for girls.

I'm pregnant and hopefully find out the sex this week. I've avoided thinking about names too much because I don't want to agonize over limited boy name options if I don't have to. Especially since I have extra (self-imposed) criteria such as being pronounceable in two cultures for my Brazilian in-laws.

[honeychile]

I highly doubt that my DH & I will have children - it seems that everytime we decide to try, we hear that high-pitched scream that only a child under 3 can make - but he has informed me that any children will have names that start with the letter J. This is not going to happen.

My family does the First Name/Surname-That's-About-To-Die-Out/Last Name for much too long to mess with that now! John is the only J name I can handle - and it's been in every generation, as far back as we can trace until the current one.

So, we will probably have bichons with very formal names!

[ColdInCanada11]

Originally Posted by honeychile

I highly doubt that my DH & I will have children - it seems that everytime we decide to try, we hear that high-pitched scream that only a child under 3 can make - but he has informed me that any children will have names that start with the letter J. This is not going to happen.

My family does the First Name/Surname-That's-About-To-Die-Out/Last Name for much too long to mess with that now! John is the only J name I can handle - and it's been in every generation, as far back as we can trace until the current one.

So, we will probably have bichons with very formal names!

All three kids in my family have J names, it's not so bad

[GeorgiaGreek]

Originally Posted by honeychile

I highly doubt that my DH & I will have children - it seems that everytime we decide to try, we hear that high-pitched scream that only a child under 3 can make - but he has informed me that any children will have names that start with the letter J. This is not going to happen.

My family does the First Name/Surname-That's-About-To-Die-Out/Last Name for much too long to mess with that now! John is the only J name I can handle - and it's been in every generation, as far back as we can trace until the current one.

So, we will probably have bichons with very formal names!

I have 2 friends who have heavily-J-named families (one includes a dog named Joey). I don't think it's that bad/annoying to have a bunch of names with the same first letter unless 1) the last name also started with that letter or 2) the names sound too similar.

Fake Examples:
Johnny, Jason and Jessica Smith - cute
Laura, Laurel and Leah Larson - please don't

[Dixie_Amazon]

Originally Posted by GeorgiaGreek

I have 2 friends who have heavily-J-named families (one includes a dog named Joey). I don't think it's that bad/annoying to have a bunch of names with the same first letter unless 1) the last name also started with that letter or 2) the names sound too similar.

Fake Examples:
Johnny, Jason and Jessica Smith - cute
Laura, Laurel and Leah Larson - please don't

^This^

My ex was part of a J family. Joel, Jim, Jeri, Jeff and John and it didn't seem to bother anyone.