Found 'the one' - and it's not Beauden [grin]

[arizonagirl]

Hi everyone,

Well, after a few days of constant name games, me and dh are sorted. Thanks to everyone's help we have decided not to go with Beauden after the BAD reaction on here. Or Indigo or Lyric or Soren. Lots of you still will hate our choices but I think you know when you have decided because you don't care less anymore what others think (in a nice way).

Soooo. our final choices are:

Girl: Sonnet Melody
Boy: Winter Beau Alexander.

See, I still have my Beau in there .

I think these fit in really well with our other dc. The only big problem is that we have an Autumn so it may well sound contrived. But they aren't going to be joined at the hip and will have their own identities.

One last favour!!!

Can anyone suggest a nice third name to go with Sonnet Melody? (Our other three have all got two middle names so I want to do the same).

Was thinking perhaps:

Sonnet Melody Grace
Sonnet Melody Eve
Sonnet Melody Erin

Want a classic name she can fall back on if she hates her other two names.

Anyway, thank you for all your help. I think I can almost leave these boards in peace now

you can get on board with snowden? snowdenboarding?

What about Leif (leaf)?

Tree?

Rain?

Brook?

Not keen on Snowden at all. It's like calling him Everest or Stromboli

Autumn ana Winter would be ok if you would change the other two to Spring and Summer.

That would be so maaaaad it would be good.

In my next life I might deliberately have four children and stagger them appropriately across the seasons so I can do just that.

Leif is very nice. (pronounced Lafe I think?)

Rafe is nice too. Though not remotely seasonal I'll grant you.

Stromboli is quite fab, somwhow, Madaboutquavers!

How about Harvest? Harvey for short.

You can't have Autumn Leif surely, even though Leif is cool.

I too like Bodhi, also Asher, Rowen, Hunter, Timber

Think elements, natural wonders, weather phenomenons, cliff and mountains, ravines and dykes (ok, not dykes) come on girls, we can do this....

I'm really enjoying this. I secretly love bonkers names - just too sensible to pick them for my own children.

I knew two brothers called Sol and Jupiter once. They are cool names.

I love your attitude to the responses on here arizona, and have enjoyed all your threads!

Sorry, but don't like snowden. I just looked up some 'fire' names in keeping with the nature theme;

Elijah
Erasmus
Joash - not sure how to pronounce though!
Ignatius
Flame

Wouldn't go with flame myself but I quite like the others....

I seriously considered Melody for dd1 but dp told me I was bonkers and with hindsight, I'm glad I didn't go for it. Then again, it is MUCH better than Sonnet, which, quite frankly, I think is ridiculous. Sorry but I do.

I like Beau but Winter is just awful - and didn't you say that you already had an Autumn? That's just plain silly imvho.

To be honest, they all sound a bit like those made-up name combinations which women who write crap romantic novels make up for themselves. You know - Tempest Storme or Mystique Couer and all that nonsense.

What did Adrian Mole call himself - Adrienne Storme or something?

Sorry but I really think you need to rethink these.

Storm is quite nice in a bonkers way for a boy - so is Flame. Or Blaze?

I have to say out of all your names,Melody is lovely

ooooh! Jupiter, FellatioNelson ! I like it in a "I would never in a million years name my child that but it might suit arizonagirl's child" kind of way.

Or what about Mars? Did anyone see the Spike Lee "Who Do You Think You Are"? It's a family name for him so not completely unheard of. Also the name of a character in "She's Gotta Have It".

I think Logan, Autumn, Ocean and Mars is kind of cool!

You simply cannot have an AUTUMN and a WINTER

that is too cruel!

Hang on, I've just remembered a whole ace family with bonkers names - I'll find them for you. There might be a crucial bit of inspiration.

I'm so enjoying this thread.

Apologies, OP, but since someone mentioned Farrow and Ball, I haven't been able to stop myself.....

Clunch?
Gervase?
Babouche?
Lichen?

Yep found them I bring you the www.tvguide.com/tvshows/9-design/photos/302736/85722 Novogratz family]] from NY. They have made a whole career out of having thousands of children with implausible names and photographing them at their oh-so-funky Greenwich Village home next to crap designer pieces of furniture that they seem to make/sell. The internet is awash with pretentious photos of these children, and their try-too-hard house. Mr and Mrs Novogratz are clearly their own biggest fans. (don't let that put you off OP.)

Anyway - enjoy.

Rubbish link. Sorry - I'll try again.

Actually love the name Bodhi. Knew a little girl called Bodhi and it totally suited her. She was rather, um, willowy

here

Denali has a higher mountain (McKinley) than Snowdonia.

So Denali or McKinley.
Or Nevis?

Fisher
Malin
Bailey
Faeroe
are all stormy...

Not Nevis. Nevis is a mole. On the face. No.

Fellatio, the one with the hat and the light blue jacket looks as if he's trying to sneak away.

Fitzroy
Rockall
Cromarty
Utsire (North and South)

and not forgetting....Dogger

I would too if my parents made me do that for their own ends. Anyway they won't notice he's gone - they've got 12 others.

I think Snowdon is much better than Winter.

Have you thought of Rohan or Rowan (very pagan connotations)