Name themes

[Deedles]

I love names that are a bit different or have a strong meaning and Usually of Irish/celtic/gaelic origin.

I named DS4 after a character in a book. His name is Calin, which means powerful warrior!

[Frantelle]

Also no feral names, no odd spelling.

I actually told my DH that he was in charge of the name (what can I say he has excellent taste) but I had power of Veto, having said that I did almost end up with a Billy-Ray (I think it was a joke or at least I hope it was).

I just wanted a strong boys name and a girly girls name.

My DH picked my DS' middle name as it is my brothers name and also his late brothers name

[KitFaerie]

Nothing made up.
Nothing from twilight.
Nothing that rhymes.

First name is whatever we want, second name has hippy/literary influence (funky, but discreet!) and 3rd name is a family name.

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[nickers]

All 3 boys have 5 letters (kinda co-indecidence) actually so does dh, im the odd one out with 6 letters
Middle names are family names
DS1 has my initials NMP DS2 has dh initials TJP but ds3 is the odd one out RTP . (well first name R but middle letter is T which is dh's first name letter)

[2plus1is3]

No theme for either dh or I or our child (we only have one)

[Chocaholic]

Family names are our theme.

DS1 was named after the first person in the family to come to Australia (in the First Fleet as a convict). His middle name is the same as my DH's middle name (which is the same as DH's grandfathers middle name).

DS2 was not intentionally named after family, it was just a name I liked but there are family members with it as a middle name. His middle name is the same as my FIL and BIL.

If we have another one, we will be naming him (or her) after my side of the family (but my sister has pretty much covered our side as her ex-DH didn't care about middle names).

[Nai]

Ours are French first names, middle names for someone special and second middle name is my surname.

We also had rules of no alternative spellings, not too common but had to be "known" names and able to be shortened to something we were ok with.

[Rouge]

We love French names here too. With Ds though DH got to pick, so second name had French spelling an funnily it goes so well the whole name sounds French.

It all started with me liking the way DH's name was spelt.

Turns out though DS's name is very biblical too. Not planned though.

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

We have a "proper names with proper spellings" theme. We all have three given names, and the middle names are for family. Stormy's middle names have been picked out for years. Before I even left school for one of them, if Stormy is a girl. The bumpling names are the creative ones and can be still used post-birth if we want, just not on the birth certificate.

I do have a "not the normal nickname" rule. Just because I don't want Liebling having to point out his name isn't spelt "Lee" all the time, that is a living nightmare that I know all too well.

[petalpetal]

We had a "no nouns" policy.
No rose, brooke, paris, sky, brooklyn, hudson, harley, jett, daisy, apple, willow, etc etc.
Anything that was a noun was crossed off the list.
I'm glad now. Our DD has a beautiful name, not made up, not a character's name, not a NOUN!!!!

Also, nothing off the popular lists, and no family names.
We agreed to that, only b/c my MIL was INSISTING (I'm trying to be polite) that we must choose one of two names that she said.
Funnily enough, my DH really like a very, very old english name, and didn't realise it is my Mum's real name. Her name is hyphenated, and she chooses to only use the first half of it, so he didn't know the second half. Even after I said it was my mum's name, and reminded him of the no family name rule, he still wanted it.
I've promised that if we ever have a second...which is never now....it will have that name as the middle one.
Everyone wins.
Except my MIL.