Babies names

[alex2]

I don?t think I?d choose the same name that a close friend had chosen, even if it was a personal favourite ? it just doesn?t seem very original. It?s not that I think it?s a particularly big deal just that I?d want my baby to have a special name at least amongst close friends. Also that friend?s baby would take on the name, I would imagine. Isn?t it amazing how children grow into even the most bizarre names? First time you here them, you think no! A few meetings later and you couldn?t imagine them called anything else. I guess I?d be quite flattered if a friend named their child the same as mine ? but I wouldn?t think them particularly imaginative.

My boys are Dylan John and Rory Daniel!

Seth is a lovely name. I wanted it for ds but dh refused on grounds that it's a character in Emmerdale apparently. Now we have Harry and everyone assumes that it's an HP thing...

HWR - I love Seth and Saul. However, dh is a theologian and objected to Saul on biblical grounds. As you may know St. Paul was Saul before he got converted. As the primary persecutor of Christians we didn't feel comfortable with his pre conversion name, and Paul just didn't have the same ring to it

We have an Arthur which was the only name dh and I could agree on, but he suits it. The whole family hated it at first, but its grown on them.

Friends called: Gabriel, Joshua, Max, Liam

I have a Ciaran Thomas which causes great confusion on both spelling and pronounciation. We've got five pregnant ladies at work (not bad for an office of 25 people) and its great fun suggesting names. It seems a lot easier than finding one for your own.

I'm currently pregnant with my 2nd child (sex unknown). We are constantly trying to think of names so these suggestions have been helpful, however is it only me but I'm finding it so much more difficult to think of names this time round...when I DO think of one I keep worrying if it will 'go with' our 1st born's name okay...am I just being very strange or did anyone else worry about this? Hubby thinks I'm being silly!

Dixie, I never worried that my second child's name should go with the first only that they didn't clash. I've got a Callum and Louise and although I don't think they go together particulary I don't think they clash.

Manna, as a good Catholic girl(!) I understand your husband's point. Friend in question is a proselytysing (sp?) atheist which makes the name thing a little strange. DH is also a good atheist and was adamant about "no Papist names", but then chose a VERY Catholic name for dd all by himself... (Pia, BTW)

As for names going together ...

Mine are called Ashly (girl), Daniel and Sasha (girl). When you say all 3 names together, it doesn't sound too bad but if you talk about just the girls, my tongue does seem to "fall over" the names.

We have a Katherine Morna - used up both girls names we liked in one go too! Luckily our No.2 is a boy - Aidan Paul Russell. We chose Katherine's names because we liked them, and for the meanings - Katherine means pure and Morna is a Gaelic name meaning 'beloved'. We chose Aidan's names for totally different reasons - Aidan as we like the history of the name - it was a St. Aidan who founded the Holy Island monastery on Lindisfarne which is one of our favourite places. Paul is dh's grandad's name, the only Grandad we still have alive, and Russell is my Dad - I wanted to tell my Daddy how much I loved him and this seemed the best way. Then we discovered (well I assume dh knew - he's the one from Northern Ireland) that Aidan is a 'Catholic' name over there, and his family are protestant. His old Granny, a bit of a knee jerk unionist, couldn't pronounce the name for about 3 days but now she is fine with it - just took a bit of getting used to. Do her good!!

I like all the old fashioned names and used many of our favourites for our 4 little ones.
Other favourites not used include
arthur/arty, alfie and nancy

The two boys names I really like are:-

Oscar
Sebastian

but my H would not even consider them, so have ended up using the names for various hamsters we have had in the past!

sas2 - are you in Milton Keynes? As I know of someone in MK with a Callum and Louise!!

Yes, I'm sitting behind you!!!

Do you two work together or something??

Paula, Yes.
Now we are going to have to change our chat names and be more discrete!!!!

I went to school with a Rupert Chicken! My nans best friend was called Maisie Button - isn't that the sweetest name? - apparently a sweet old lady too.
Truth now, I once worked with a midwife who had delivered a baby his parents chose to name Russell......their surname was Sprout.......I kid you not.
Delivered lots of heavenly names - Star, Sun, Sunny, Rainbow etc - bit alternative down this way.
I plumped for plain but pretty Ella Mae!

We've got a local midwife called Jane Jelley and I've met a Sharon Sunshine. R

Rhiannon, you're kidding, I used to look after a little girl who's mum was called Jane Jelley, but as far as I know she still lives in St Albans, daughters called Natasha and Grace - too much of a coincidence for there to be two!!

My two are Theo and Ella. But the really weird thing is if you put together the first name initials of myself, my husband and the kids, then you get my name.(Anagram competition begins here). It wasn't even a consciously egotistical move - honest - and really spooked me the first time I noticed it.

We have friends who named their children (in birth order) - Andrew, Ashley, Anthony and Matthew. I feel for Matthew, who seems quite "added on"! They had actually only planned to have the three children, so he was kind of a "surprise"...

Our dd is Tessa Maree, which we really liked together even though our surname is a McM... and ds is Daniel James Hunter, James being a traditional middle name on my dh's side for the oldest son of the oldest son. I added Hunter as it's my mum's maiden name, and my uncle had only girls, so our ds is carrying on the name in some way. Anyone else have family tradition names?

Sorry Grizzler, I meant to comment - that's amazing! But I have been racking my brain trying to think of what your name could be...c'mon give us a clue - what's dh's name???

leese, lol @ Russell Sprout - poor kid! My dh works with a Richard Brain, and the other day I saw a Richard Face in the paper...I guess they wouldn't want to be known as Dick

I new a girl whose surname was Moss. She had an uncle Peter and a cousin Christine. Being Kiwis, their names were shortened to Pete Moss and (worse) Chris Moss. While I was pg I teased dh with outrageous Maori girls names that he would never be able to pronounce in a million years. For a while I was insisting on calling her Hinemoa Waimarama Te Aroha. Though in the end her middle name is Ngaire and he still has problems pronouncing that.

I worked for an attorney (a long time ago) named Fred Judy. And he married a woman named...Judy! So she would call and say "hi, this is Judy Judy" and I would have to try to keep a straight face! Just kept picturing Humphrey Bogart...