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.
Oooh I wish we had of thought of that, would've worked with our DS too, his name is Ashley (Ash for short) and our surname starts with H... Too bad his middle names is Charles (after my Dad and Grandfather)...
Anyway a couple of ideas that popped into my head:
Girls
- Emily could be Emm
- Gemma could be Gem
Boys
Cameron or Campbell could be Cam
Simon could be Sim
Hamish could be Ham
Hmmm I'm liking this, it's a bit of a brain teaser But I think that's all I've got for now, might pop back later.
OK...so I'm totally stumped on name choices for you....BUT have you thought about the sound of the initials???
My surname starts with C and we had decided for this bub to name her Darcie....so I suggested my middle name Renee....which would make the initals DRC, which said as ititials, kind of sound like you're saying Darcie IYKWIM!!?
Maybe you can try from that angle too?
for what it's worth my maiden name started with M and my initials were ALMOST JAM!!!
Minimax, my maiden name also started with an M - I was nearly a RAM... So yeah, I can fully understand that there are certain things you DON'T want to have pop up in initials, but I still like the idea...
But when it comes to Hamish - Hamish is a lovely little dog that belongs to a friend of ours. I don't think I could call a child of ours Hamish... especially when the only human Hamish I have encountered as a teacher was kind of in the ruining the name forever category.
I'm starting to think another *AM name would be a bit much... so starting to think more of other vowels in there for the middle name...
Then again, even if we ended up with something like Sam and Kim... I'm starting to think it all sounds a bit blurgh.
Juliette, really starting to like some of your ideas! I think we could probably come up with some initials that are really meaningful but not necessarily an abbreviation of a name.
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Good Luck
But I think that's all I've got for now, might pop back later.
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