would depend on how close you are to your cousin as to whether she'd take offence (or put you off using it!) - we havent eliminated any names based on my family - but all names that we can directly like to DH's family have been cut off any list we have!
only another ooh 30 weeks or so Amy! two BB-ites know boys name, and one knows girl. and that's only cos we're really good friends and it was a case of sharing so that names didn't get "stolen" inadvertantly!
we've had two girl and two boy names (with middle names) picked for at least two years
nothing has made us change our minds - we both love them, both have very similar tastes... so it's just a case now of waiting for the Gremlin to arrive so that we can name it.
and then you will have one set in stone Amy and change it to another when you see the baby for the first time...lol
Interesting thoughts here - if Miss M was a boy - we were tossing up the middle name of August - because it was my grandfather's middle name. So because she was born in August, if she had been a boy - it might have turned me off using it IYKWIM??
Arimeh - i think that's the exact thought process i have - even though the REASON you want it isn't related to their birth, it messes with you because you just have that feeling that people will draw the wrong conclusions!
naming kidlets is sooo hard - they're stuck with the name - and any repercussions, for a bloody long time!
I think people would have automatically thought you had chosen it for the month your baby was born - and wouldn't have given the meaning a second thought. I guess that's the problem with some of these names - people are so quick to judge!!!
I wouldn't. But only because I'm just not into Month or Season names much.
We got heaps of jokes about what our first kid's name would be, being due so close to Christmas. Some suggestions were Holly, Noel, Carol, Chris etc. People were just poking fun though.
As it turns out, Natalie means Christ's Birth so we kind of did go with the season LOL! DH and I had always liked Natalie though.
Summer was our chosen girls name had DS been a little girl and I it was just coincidence that the baby was due in December. We chose the name because we loved it, not because of when it was due. We are also thinking of keeping it as a back up for this baby too in case it is a girl and this baby is due on 15th March (which isnt Summer but it could come a couple of weeks early).
My cousin is also called April and she is born in November and I dont think much is ever said to her about it .....
My Mum's name is June. She has often been asked if she was named that because she was born in June and the usual response is 'No, named June, born in July'. As has been said, people are quick to assume.
I love the name Holly (spelt Hollie though) as a middle name, so if we fell pregnant again and it was a girl born in December, she'd probably be Aislinn Hollie.
I had a bit of a giggle at my MIL though. When she found out we were expecting just before Christmas (and it was even funnier considering Maddy was 10 days late and born on Christmas Eve), she suggested jokingly that if it was a girl we should name the child after her nickname - Chrissy. *L*
See if I had a bub due on Australia Day or ANZAC day I would probably want to give them a real "Aussie" name for that reason. Weird.. I wouldn't do it for any other month/holiday.
My two year old is a May baby ... we never thought for a moment of having MAY amongst her middle names ... but then that's cause we already had too many middles to choose to put in there
I like the fact that she is a Saturday baby ... I always think of Saturday as a Party day/night fun person
I'm a January baby ... and one of my middle names starts with the J A N
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