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So, when your ttc, obviously you have the baby talk and yada yada, then discuss names blah blah. We decided on 2 boys names rather quickly, but took us almost a year to find a girls name we both liked.
The name we chose is hear being called EVERYWHERE, and on TV, it is now all of a sudden a popular name and it has put me off the name, even though i still think its a pretty name.
Have you ever found a nice NOT common name that you liked only then to hear it everywhere?
i always thought DDs name was not too common in Aus...but now there are 3 in her class!
I think its like anything - when you look to buy a certain type of car/pram you suddenly see them everywhere!
Yep! Or you meet someone and it their kids name, so u can't have it etc...
Well, we thought DD's wasn't used much anymore and then we read it was the 5th most common name for newborn girls in vic last year :rolleyes: Kinda p!sses me off!
Aw please tell me the names!!! I love knowing babies/soon to be babies names!
Cassius2- love your daughters name! Hardly hear it!
i had a name i loved - told my mum but no one else - mum's besty became a grandmother - and they used the EXACT name - first and middle! neither particularly common either! needless to say, i gave up on that name! lol
Yep, I thought DD's name would be a less common name, but it seems to be popping up everywhere, tho I only know one othe IRL, here in BB land, there are little Lily's popping up all over! I can't blame people, it's a gorgeous name ;)
Woops, I forgot to add the name :lol: The name we had picked was Sophia Eleni ( Σοφία Ελένη). I think it is a beautiful name for a little girl.
I like unusual names, with me being maltese and DP being Greek we dont want a too common name! We liked Eleni (helen in english, my ma's name and my middle name) but then DP's cousin named her daughter that. We liked Katarina, then DP's cousin named her daughter Ekatarina ... Now we're back to square one with girls names :lol:
For a boy we have 2 names
1. Sotirios iannis (Ιάννη) (after DP's great grandfather iannis (john in english) after his dad)
2. Vincenzo Joseph (Vin CHEN so) (Vincenzo my great grandfather, Joseph my grandfather)
Just gets so annoying iykwim?
DD1's name is Keira. She was born a few years before Keira Knightly became a star.
Her name was rather rare prior to that. When she was about 5 everywhere we went there would be two or three year old Keira's everywhere.
And yes it ****es me off! Stupid bloody Keira Knightly!
So you wont definitely do the gradfather-father name thing for a boy?
I like Eleni :)
Nah, We like the great grandfather & Grandfather names for the boys. DP doesnt really like his name, and I dont blame him :lol: - his name is Theothoros (Theo for short) we just dont think it suits the other names,
WDYT?
I know exactly what you mean. I had my boy & girl names picked out when I was in high school (a long time ago lol) and both have dramatically increased in popularity (now both in top 10 for NSW). DH didn't approve of my names unfortunately so I had to pick another one.
There is a US website that tells you how popular names are over the last 100+ years. It will be a bit different to Oz of course but I think they are very similar. I'll post a link. It's a government page so I think that's ok. - Here
NSW also has a similar thing but not quite as extensive. Here
I used these sites quite a lot when picking names for DS. Didn't really work though. In DS's daycare class, his is the only name that was doubled up :wall:
I think Sophia Eleni is a lovely name. Very beautiful and feminine.
HTH
Sophia Eleni is a beautiful name. i would stick to it!
i love Sophia- it's beautiful.
ds1 was going to be a Ruby if he was a girl- now i know so many little Rubys.
I think Sophia is a gorgeous name!
Could you use one boys name from your family and one from your husbands?
Id stick with your girls name. I hear lots of Sophies, but far fewer Sophia's.
Yep the name we picked for our baby girl i found out recently that a guy who DP used to work with his missus is pregnant also she has the same EDD as me but her daughters name is the same name as what we picked.. and then my mums bestfriends niece called her daughter the same name.
The only original part of her name will be the spelling. But shmeh i don't care i love the name and if they whinge then so be it :p
when we had DD1 ( Grace ) her name wasn't around hardly at all, but now its quite common, in the hospital when we had her there were 6 others who named their baby girls the same, and my mum had another 7 women who had become grandmothers at work over a period of 3 months have their grand daughters named Grace too LOL
OH you should still use it..its gorgeous!!!!!!
We picked a fairly uncommon name - Mateauz (normally spelt Mathias)...we thought we were safe.
Ive meet one girl...said the same and almost spelt the same :o and 2 boys but with the normal spelling and I live in a country town!!!!!
BUT
we've never meet another Wilhelm (yet:crossfingers:)
Thanks Rowellen! Those sites were awesome! We love the name Sophia Eleni too, but when you hear it so much on the TV (Fox, and thanks to rowellan, in america Sophia is in the top 5 LOL) no wonder we've been hearing it so much ...
I guess its just one of those pet peeves tho lol
I take it no one likes our boy names? :lol:
I love the name Sophia. It's actually on my 'list';)
Sigh...DH and I have always picked names we liked for DS, DD and now for Number 3 without looking at lists or anything, and each time have found out after we had our hearts set on them that they were all in the Top 10 or 20 baby names for that year.
But we couldn't change our minds despite that, we'd picked the names ourselves and we loved them regardless.
So my kids are bound to double up first names with someone somewhere. But that doesn't particularly bother me because I grew up with a very unusual surname and somewhat uncommon first name and I got so sick of correcting the spelling and pronunciation that I craved a nice, ordinary name. I actually think that giving popular, conventionally spelled names is doing them a favour in my book. They might not though!
I totally agree. But it's amazing how many people get the "easy" names wrong anyway lol!:
