Names - Inspiration for those of us that are struggling - what have you/are you calling yours?

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Yes, I trawl it regularly!@nappy

maybe i can help. i love trying to find baby names. do you want something with a specific meaning, are there any sounds you particularly like, any family origins you would like to include?

For boys - I like biblical names, Irish names (I'm Irish), something unusual but not weird

For girls - I'm a sucker for feminine sounding names ending in 'a', but can't find any DH likes. Again, nothing too well used.

My son's name is biblical but not funky.

erm just off the top of my head shaun, jack, jonathon, samuel, joshua, brendan, martin, christopher, paul, ciaran, andrew, matthew, thomas, john, luke, daniel, michael.

I quite like Samuel, although it is much more common than my son's name...Ditto to Ciaran, but DH not keen

hmmm thought of a few more bibley ones.

alexander, james, noah, david, nicholas, christian, nathan, mark, simon, peter, jonah, philip, moses, bartholomew, matthias, isaac, nathaniel, zebedee, levi, jacob, joseph, barnabas, jason, rufus, lucius, stephen, timothy, cornelius, abraham, benjamin, reuben, asher, abel, adam, amos, samson, elijah, ezekiel, isaiah, jeremiah, saul, solomon, zachariah

for a girl cedar, juniper, henna.

for girl i love Silvana.
it's Italian but i think it's considered very old-fashioned there.

Apparently a good way to test if it will stand childhood to adulthood is to put the name in three questions:

Can XXXX come out to play?
XXX will you marry me?
XXX we're giving you a payrise

our girls names are:
Scarlet
Kate
Bethany

boys:
Ethan
Jake
Nate

for both:

river
ash
ocean
angel
brogan
innes
hayden
avery
bryn
linden
brook/brooke
storm

for boys:

moss
wolf
fox
rocky
arne
mungo
chip (short for charles and christopher)
monroe
munro
glen
lachie
lake
theron
lorcan
perry
woodrow/woody
merlin
orion
bjorn
lockie
elmer
torin
jupiter
saturn
pluto
uranus
mercury
neptune
mars
rocco
brigham
silas
silvanus
blaze/blaise
forest/forrest
corbin
cosmo
turin
tyron
tierney

for girls:

meadow
clover
star
luna
inez
venus
lecia
fen
norina
burgundy
fancy
soraya
taryn
tarina

hunter for boy/girl too.

sunday or monday for a girl.

teal(e), tehila, tola, twyla/twila, tullia for a girl.

tully, tolly, tullio for a boy.

new new faveourite for a boy is solomon shortened to solly and then sol when a bit older.

i like enzo which can be short for lorenzo.

GWTMH your first 2 girls do that realy well espc Scarlet, I'd always thought of it as little girl but it goes well wiht all questions.
Havn't tried it with all your names yet!

nappyadicts on a roll

B*gger. Have just skim read entire thread. Still no idea. I think my problem is two fold -

(1) I am quite conservative in my name preferences
(2) I am a right grumpy cow and dislike too many people so can always think of someone with a particular name

I love Molly as my great aunty molly is great fun and still goes dancing, even though she is nearly 90!

Bizarrely DH's brother's dog died recently. It was really, really ugly and very bad tempered. It's name...Molly. DH is unmovable. Like the earlier poster who put post-it notes with the name on everywhere. Am going to try that. Maybe if I attach chocolate to the post-it, he will get positive reinforcement with the name? [hmmm]

my daughters name is-"SHIKAEYLA
im due to have baby in 6days via c-section and am having a girl we calling her-:JAYLAH"

newpews:
chevy
jordon
tyson
brodie
tremaine
kayden
tyresse
ellie
ezekiel

nieces:
shania
brooklyn
porsha
calai
trinity
riley
madison
baylee
honor

thats a small list

goodluck

hope ya like some of these names

We are liking

Girls

Freya
Sophia
April
Lilliana-Mae
Lexie
Evie-Rose
Raegan

Boys

Lyndon/Li nden
Lleyton
Finlay
Hayden
Caleb
Elliot
Jasper
Rhys

Girl/boy - september
Girl - gypsy

I am due in september and already have a ds called Thomas Luke.

This one is also a boy and my ds has chosen his names.....Toby George

wow you were brave letting your ds choose the name. how old is he_

He was 5 in June

Bit miffed I didnt get a say at all though.....I just have to carry and give birth to him!!!

Was a bit worried as in May - before we found out it was a boy - he solemnly told me that if it was a boy he wanted to call it "nicey" and if it was a girl "yucky"

(I wanted to call my brother Virgil and was very annoyed when my parents named him Paul....)

I love unisex names...

No 1 fav at the moment is
Taylor Ray for a boy
Taylor Rai for a girl

others
Girl -Dakota Joy
Girl - Scarlet Eve
Boy - Jackson Lee
Boy - Mackenzie Sheil

Not due til Feb so plenty time......