Help! Terrible surname, my poor child lol

[Ashlee]

Ok so DP's surname is.......wait for it...........Brain.

The only names he and I both like are Annabelle and Isabelle and Jade for a middle name, but is this comination not as common asanything? Willow is another DP has suggested, but it's on my sister's list if she has a girl and would possibly kill me if I used it (she is a BB member so be tactful with your responses lol)

DP says he likes "earthy" names. I don't have a clue what he means by that and when I asked him of a boys name example he could give me nothing. If it's a boy, it will be called Shrek or Rango, cos we got NOTHING at all.

Names like Ava or Ella are out, because teamed with Brain it just sounds mean! He hates Sophia, Scarlett (but with Brain, again that's mean lol) and Cadence which are names I've suggested.

Help!

[Cranky Kitten]

Oooh, ouch! Would he possibly consider having your surnames hyphenated or something?

I do quite like Isabelle Jade, or even Jade Isabelle

For "earthy" names I guess you'd be looking at more strong traditional names I think - I could be way off though.

Suggestions - Connor, Hamish, Andrew, Matthew, Timothy

Good luck!

[raffy]

Wow, I thought I had it bad with DFs surname being Pratt!!

Earthy names, earthy names

I'll be back ....

[Ashlee]

CK - No! No hyphens in this kid's name....his daughter has a hyphenated first name and her mother's and father's last names, it's an absolutely disgraceful name!!! Plus mine is Eakins...Eakins-Brain *shudder* lol

Thanks for those boys names, appreciate it, now I have a baseline and I am fond of a few of them.

Raffy - Prattis 100 times better than Brain lol

[Raupe]

Why not just use your family name as their last name? They're your kids, too!

[DANNIIM]

Does you DP feel the same way about his surname? If so maybe he might consider useing your surname instead!

[MummyDuck]

Omg...... Sorry but my adopted surname was woodhead so I cant see brain as a problem.

What's even better is my birth name is hunt and my married name is Duckworth - hunt-duck haha!

Kids will be cruel regardless of name...... When my name was changed my first name was picked on.

With the exception on Ava Brain (more for how it's written than said) I think any name will be perfect for a perfect little bundle!!!! And just teach them how to turn the remarks around on the teaser...... We are lucky that we have uncle C who is very quick witted and I'm sure will pass on his tricks to DD


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[MummyDuck]

About picking a surname, if you are worried I'd use your surname.

I ended up using my mums maiden name as my surname so I have 4!!!

I can completely understand your dilemma i had the same with dd but decided to stick with Duckworth..... We are gonna try and push TEDDY as a nickname coz her initials are TED


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[SunnyRain]

If he suggested Willow and said he likes earthy names, I suspect he means of the earth names, like Leif, Brooke, Skye, River, Raine... But I think most of those would be a bit problematic with the surname Brain.

You could go for more elemental names like Micah, Wolfram, Amber...

Does this train of thought lead anywhere?

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[phebee]

Oh boy that's a toughie... I was recently thinking of starting up a similar thread as our surname is Hoar. Yes, I changed my name to that. And my first initial is A so I'm technically A Hoar. LOL! Personally I think I'd prefer Brain, but still, that's a tricky one too! Just don't name a boy Brian. That's my advice

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[Cranky Kitten]

Or Richard.

Just saying

[Jellybean29]

Oh boy that's a toughie... I was recently thinking of starting up a similar thread as our surname is Hoar. Yes, I changed my name to that. And my first initial is A so I'm technically A Hoar. LOL! Personally I think I'd prefer Brain, but still, that's a tricky one too! Just don't name a boy Brian. That's my advice

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So you can actually stand there, straight faced to a stranger and say "I wasn't A.Hoar before I married my husband, but as soon as I said 'I do' I became A.Hoar"

[Ashlee]

So you can actually stand there, straight faced to a stranger and say "I wasn't A.Hoar before I married my husband, but as soon as I said 'I do' I became A.Hoar"

LMFAO....oh this thread just got a million times better!

Thank Tara and Nai, more to add to my list.

DP suggested Liam for a boy. I think I like it!

[Beautiful Disaster]

DP suggested Liam for a boy. I think I like it!

Oh havent heard that in years. I like it <3

[Ashlee]

Oh havent heard that in years. I like it <3

Working hard like me I see lol

Yes, the more I say it, the more it grows on me. Pity I don't think it's a boy though lol

[Melbournemumma]

We had the following names for our ds's

Noah
Hamish
Tobias
Levi
Xavier
Blair
Eli
Boys middle names are Henry and Leonard

I liked Malachi but dh vetoed it.

Hope you find something you love soon

[Nai]

Hmmm it's a toughie! I think with that surname, names that are not too different seem to sound best.

Boys
- Gregory
- Matthew
- James
- Michael

Girls
- Jessica
- Elizabeth
- Holly
- Eloise
- Imogen

[phebee]

Lol yes BBB! And what's ironic is we both waited for marriage IYKWIM


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