Confessions of a flippant baby namer

[merryberry]

Had to give my older boy's middle name this morning. Eyebrow was raised, explanation was given: 'It means happiness in Hebrew'.

Truth is, me and DH just loved the geektastic Gil Grissom character in CSI. 'Happiness' is a handy beard for sin of naming pfb after TV character.

Hoping to hear something worse to overshadow ours.

Chegirl and Bosom (if I can call you that? Sounds a bit familiar!) - thanks girls!

I guess I too suffer from old mum, weird name syndrome.

Ooh and Merryberry, I think Gil is a fabulous name. Lush.
Good job I don't have a boy as I would probably have named him Wolf, or Yves, or something equally strange

DD1 & DS have conventional names, but DD2's middle name is a LOTR one.

This is very unusual now but used to be common practice in Scottish families - my middle name is my grandmother's maiden name. I really would rather not have a middle name than have to explain to people why I have a surname as one. And my older sister has a pretty girl's name as her middle name - unfair!

"DS1 has my maiden name as a first name"

if we had done that my ds' name would have been Cole Bunker!

"Cole Bunker"

Little Ff's middle name is the feminine version of the hero of a well-known children's book. (And well-known is something of an understatement.)

Bloke was vehemently against this, but I played the trump card of having just squeezed a child out of my fanjo and insisted.

We now deny any association with said series of books (and films. You must know what I am talking about now.), even though all of our friends suspect, because Boydog is named after another character, and I am horribly addicted to them.

I know the truth though...

Potta, Ff?

thank you meandmymonkey. then try ds2, whose middle name is Linden because I a) like th tree and b) wanted it as his first name (short version, Den, Denny) so my two boys together sound like east end ganster circa 1962. Ah well, at least the girl who never way avoided being an Ada, after Byron's daughter, cos she invented machine code...

Chegirl congrats

If DS was a girl, he'd be being called Nefer. I suggested it almost as a joke to DP as it means "The Beautiful One" (Nefertiti meaning "The Beautiful One Has Come" for those of you that are interested!) and he fell in love with it. So now we're just going to give him rather a lot of names instead

Chegirl - fantastic news, congratulations!

My DS has my maiden name as his second middle name. I fully paid for that, as I had to fill in all his forms for emigration and passport and Aussie citizenship and having 3 quite long "first" names is a trial. He will not be happy when he has to do it himself, poor boy

MB I really like the name Linden. Also the name of a US prez.

DD was named after DP's our favorite indy 80's band.

I love it and somehow it just works

Congratulations Chegirl. What wonderful news.

No kids yet but I'm planning on naming a future ds after Angus Young,the guitarist in my favourite band AC/DC.

I'm also a Star Wars geek so I'm sure my ds won't complain too much when he finds out that the alternative would be Anakin.

mb - i've never told my DH that one of the main reasons I really liked Leo for DS was because of my favourite character from the West Wing... And I have been known to mention Gil to him as an option should we ever have a DS2!

Crash - I hope she's called T'Pau

And if/when I have a daughter she'll most likely be named for a Star Wars character. And no,not Leia.

Padme?

Some lovely names in sci-fi / fantasy.
I'm especially partial to Anakin, and Arwen and Galadriel.
I'm training to be a Holistic Masseuse, and wanted to all myself Lothlorien Therapies, but my friends say it's too cheesy :p

Not Padme either.

It's from the extended universe.

DD may still be named after my favorite bicycle - but it's Julianna, so not that obvious one would hope

i was given my middle name on the spot at my Christening as the Priest didnt think my first name was a Christian name or a "proper" name.

All the family started suggesting names at random & I ended up with my Nan's suggestion!

My parents decided on a boy & girl name for future sprog. When I was born, Pop trotted off to register my name. He came back with big smile & told my mother he decided in the end to name me after her!
I'm a 'junior' and it's caused no end of confusion ever since.

I don't have a middle name but my DS has 2, his first name and middle name initials are T.H.E and his surname is an animal (my DP's surname) - everyone else realised this except us , even the registrar pointed it out.

rosietoes - all my aunties are known by different names for that same reason! DG decided he didnt like the names my DN registered them with so gave them different ones.

I just remembered that I said to my OH on the way to the registry office 'ohh shall we add *** to his names?'(DS3) and OH said 'if you want'

Thats fairly flippant isnt it?