I feel a bit silly asking this as we're still probably about a year away from trying for another child, but I'm getting myself stuck in the mind-set that we can't have another child because I don't think we can do the same thing that we did with naming the first child and it's not fair to any others... I freely admit that is an irrational thought!
To explain... Our surname begins with an M. Before we'd even discussed names together both DH and I had the same idea completely separate to each other. If we had a boy, to name him Samuel and give him a middle name starting with an A so that we could call him Sam and his initials would also be SAM. And so we did - Samuel Angus. The fact that both names have significant meanings to us also helped.
Do you think it would be possible to come up with another name where the child's nickname could be their initials as well?
And I apologise in advance for the number of names I will reject through family or friends already using it or because I just plain don't like it!
We can't use Ian as a middle name as it's a BIL's name and I'm determined not to use any family names at all. I suspect that rules out any of the XIM names for boys as I can't think of any other decent boys names that DH would agree to starting with an I.
Close friends have also taken Tim and Tom, and if we go for Jim from James - well, that's another BIL's middle name.
Kim from Kimberley wouldn't be too bad, I'm just not a big fan - comes down to one of the pitfalls of being a teacher.
We have thought about this too, but only with girls' names, as our surname is an A name.
You could probably do it, but I wouldn't go wasting your life with worry if you can't! PAM? DOM?
The nickname doesn't necessarily have to be an abbreviation of the first name, either. It could just be an alternative for a nickname. Thinking like that, you could do a lot, like JEM, NIM, ROM etc.
DOM from Dominic was a favourite when naming Sam - but a close friend called their son Dominic and we see them often enough for it to be weird, I think. The same friends called their second son Liam - which is a shame as I could go with that one! Name thieves!
Pam... pass... unless you can come up with something other than pamela that starts the same way!
Audax, you can come up with some really nice names there... I can see why you'd only do it for a girl, though.
Obviously coming up with some sort of name where this will work isn't going to be the deciding factor in whether or not we have a second child (more likely to be whether embryos defrost or not!), but it's been a weird stress bugging me lately and I do need to make it go away.
BW will elaborate after school, but Gem/Jem in any form is out due to family naming (SIL has a Sim and Jem, she already cops flack for Sam being too close to Sim - throwing Jem in the mix will be way too messy! lol)
Thanks, BG. Yup, the family already has a Simeon, so Simon, Simone and Simeon are all out. We also have a Jemima so that's out and when we went so close to Simeon before I don't think it would be appreciated if we went so close to Jemima as well - it's a shame as I love Gemma and would LOVE a Gem... And it's not like they are distant relatives, either.
Jeremy - the name of an ex-boyfriend (Simon, too) and that just feels kind of icky.
Do you think the *EM would work for girls... I can't think of any names, unfortunately! *EM doesn't feel right for boys.
i know a few kids with M as first initial that just get "M" as nn - no diff to "Emm" really if you're pronouncing it. don't know it looks right when writing it though
LOL!!!! We called our son Samuel Ashley (last name starts with M) for the same reason, and we are TOTALLY struggling with naming this one! DH want's GEM... having said that however, our first baby was Hannah Roisin - but the reason we liked Hannah was because it is a palindrome (spelled the same backwards and forwards)....so DH has to find something quirky and cool to call this new baby (a girl according to 20 week scan). I guess my point is that you can find meaning and quirkiness in more than one way... You could try palindromes, or other associated non-word three-letter-acronym's (Our first is HRM - Her Royal Majesty, or Human Resource Manager - which has turned out to be somewhat predictive of her nature, she LOVES to boss around her little brother). If you end up having a girl, keep in mind that they may choose to change their last name if they marry, and all that hard work thinking up cool initials will be all for nothing!
You could find something with the 'other' vowel - Y! (i.e. KYM)
You could make the initials mean something numerical i.e. On a keypad, M=6, or it’s the 19th letter of the alphabet – you could make it all add up to something significant like your anniversary etc.
That way you can still tell your 2nd child that you thought long and hard about making their name not only interesting, but in a different way to their sibling
Failing that - you may need to look to the four letter options...this can be an amusing exercise if nothing else.
Do you think we could do it again?
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i love it haha
PAM? DOM?
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