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What is your baby's name. Im trying to think of names I could possibly use (yes I might steal it) and the books arn't really helping. It may be useful for others too.. Did you go for a conventional or unconventional name, were they named after anyone or anything??
I used to be a youth worker so associating those names to those kids is also a difficulty I am having. Ie I won't name them "Chris" because he was a little SOB... that kinda thing :)
DS -
First name: Aricyn (Scandinavian - means the Eternal King's son)
Middle name: Michael (was supposed to be DH's name - but they changed their mind when his brother said he wouldn't talk to him if they named him that - DH also idolises Michael Jordan)
DD -
First name: Mehkelti (made up basically - loosely based on Mykelti Williamson, an actor, but he pronounces his name Michael-T - hers is "meh-kel-tee")
Middle names: Addisyn (cos we love the name and ties in nicely with aricyn) & Jayne (my middle name)
Steal if you dare! ;)
As per my siggy for names...
None of my kids have meanings behind their names...except Chelsea....cos id always dream i was having a girl and i always called her Chelsea Rose....so when she arrived and was a girl....the name stuck!
aussiewillow - I had the same problem finding a name as I am a child care worker. We finally settled on Olive Mae about 2mths before she was born. We basically just loved the name then after she was born found out that DH's great great grandmother was named Olive and she had a daughter named Olive May so that was a huge coincidence. Mae is my second name. Naming is such a huge decision, we were still looking at boy's names while I was in labour and finally settled on Ambrose or Solomon. I like different names to what everyone else has and for boy's it has to be strong and manly, for girl's pretty and feminine.
Toby John- I just love the name Toby and John is my dads name.
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DS name is L0klann William.
L0klann just because it was one of the few boys names we could agree on that fitted him when he was born & William is DFs middle name & a family name on his side..
DD is Emma Louise - I tried to find a name no one else in the family had, i have 40 odd cousins so it was no easy task. I loved the name and at the time the Spice girls were really big and baby spice was Emma. Louise is my middle name so i passsed it on down.
DS1 is Hamish Richard-David - quite a mouthful, I wanted something to tie in with HUbbys scottish heritage and loved Hamish. Richard is hubbys Dad and David is my Dads name. We thought we better get the family names in as he was the only boy and we hadnt planned on any others.
DS2 is Lachlan Stewart - Again i wanted a scottish name and i didnt think i could have a Hamish and then a John or more normal sort of name so we went for Lachlan, Stewart is Hubbys name.
Aaron John ....had this name picked out form day dot and it stuck!
Corey Jerome ....Loved the name Corey and Jerome is DH middle name!
First... Joshua Mark, just because...lol.
Second... Oskar Levi... Oskar for German and Polish heritage - that's why we spelt it with a k and it's not an overly common name. Levi - my grandfather's name was Levison (pronounced with a short e as in levy) so we cut it down to Levi although I think the name Levison actuallly really rocks.
Aidyn Jackson.
- Aidyn because we both instantly liked it, and the spelling. Its irish for 'little fiery one'.
-Jackson after his dad.
Eva Harmony.
-Eva means 'life'. It was number 5 on our list the whole pregnancy, but seeing as we could never agree on any of the first 4 names, it came to grow on us.
- Harmony - after my sister.
So her name means 'Life harmony', which I think is pretty cool :)
Moving this thread to the Baby Names forum.
Jazmyne Louise - Jasmine is my fave scent & the name is so pretty. But I wanted to make it her own name, so I spelt it differently just for her.
Brianna Rose - DH picked Brianna. I thought it was pretty plain at the time, but I think adding Rose to it makes it more girly & pretty.
Jesse Andrew - Jesse is the name we had picked out for both the girls if they were a boy. When we finally got our boy it was the only name we agreed on. Andrew is XH's step fathers middle name.
Ds is Cody James. i had no say in that name as hubby named him, i wasnt around lol.. but love teh name
DD is Taylah Rose.. i liked taylah as it was different in teh spelling.
and rose was my great great grand mothers name.
DD was almost Isabella Rose. but we decided taylah suited her more
DS1 is Lindsay Owen - no reason cause we didn't want to burden a first born son with a family name.
DD1 is Erin Kathleen - Erin we just liked and Kathleen is my mums name
DD2 is Paige Annette - Again Paige was just a name we both agreed on and Annette is DH's mum's name
DS2 is Alister Douglas - Alister was a name I wanted from the moment I fell pg and originally wanted Alister Luke, but DH hated Luke and wasn't keen on Alister either so I put the ball in his court and said unless he thought of something better, then Alister it was. He came round and decided he wanted Lachlan for a middle name (his middle name too) but when he was born he decided he wanted Douglas as a middle name, which is his first name. So Alister Douglas it was.
Aiden Walter- XP picked Aiden (I wanted Zekiah) and Walter's his great great grandfathers name. It was to include my side of the family as he has XP's last name
My ds is Aston Maxwell - i just loved the name not sure if it means anything
Jesse Tyler - DH suggested Jesse and i then loved it.. Tyler was the only other name we both liked.
Keira Ava - Keira i got from Olivia Newton John's character in Xanadu.. though on there its spelt Kira. I loved it from the first time i heard it. Ava.. umm.. well.. is Richie Sambora's daughters name lol.. plus i love the name and so does DH.
haha i love bon jovi. i tried talking dh into naming the baby jovi if it was a boy, or bonnie for a girl. He flat out refuses. lol. he wouldnt even call our dog one of those names! i was most disappointed lol. I used to work as a kids photographer and once photographed a lil boy named jovi. his dad was a big fan. i thought it was the coolest thing ever! lol:
Ava.. umm.. well.. is Richie Sambora's daughters name lol.. plus i love the name and so does DH.
my dd is Maya Maree
Maya was a compramise between Matayah & Mia
and Maree is a tradition for our family and first born girls .
Haha those are very cool names! I would keep at him on that one lol. Someone on here has a daughter called Jovie i think one of the mods? Not sure if its related to the band.:
DH didnt know Ava was his daughters name.. he actually wanted Ava for a first name when i originally suggested it but i preferred Keira.
My girlfriend who is a big Jon fan has a son named Richie. She swears its not after Richie Sambora.. but cmonnn we all know it is :)
DD TAHLIA- just loved the name for a long time, she gets tahli for short..
DS JAY- My brothers name is Joel so its the first letter of his name.
DD ELLA- again just love the name, she gets Elle and BelBel :)
As per my signature
My DH is Polish so we like names that can be spelt and pronounced in both languages.
Sara Ellyse - The only modern Polish name I liked at the time. It means princess...boy she is a princess!! Ellyse came from me playing around with the name Alicija.
Loren Maja - I knew i wanted this name at conception although I considered Maja towards the end of my pregnancy. When she was born I just knew she was a Loren.
Next bub - So far I have Eva Terese or Miah Rose for a girl and Tomasz Robert for a boy.
DS1 - Nixon Milton . Dh came up with the name Nixon and Milton is my dads and my late pops name.
Nixon = Nic's son and i am Nic. upon further investigation Nixon is derived from Nicholas and Nicole & Nicolas have the same name meaning there for Nixon & Nicole mean the same! (victory of the people)
By giving him the middle name Milton my side of the fam got a peak in and we both share the same initals NMP
DS2 - Tyron James . I came up with this name, after Nixon having my initials we wanted this bub to have dh's initals. I found the name Tyrone but liked Tyron (pronounced TY-RON) better. James is dh middle name aswell as my dads middle name.
so Ty & dh both have TJP initials, then mummy & Nixon are NMP
DD is Anika Bridget
DS is Jeremy Oran
My husband has a swedish heritage, so I looked at swedish names while pregnant wih DD. I saw 'Annika', but played around with pronounciation, and preferred 'Anika'. We considered family names for a middle name but I was worried that someone may have felt left out, so we came up with a middle name that we liked and that flowed well with DD first name.
We called DS Jeremy, because we love the name Jem. I wanted him to have the option of "Jeremy' in case he ever thought that 'Jem' was too childish or feminine. He gets called Jem most of the time, and at 2 years old, it really suits him! We loved the name Oran and considered it for his first name. We didn't use a family name because we hadn't the first time around. Did consider 'james' for a middle name (my FIL name, my Dad's middle name and my DH middle name) but I didn't like the sound of Jeremy James. Since then, James has been used by my BIL for his son, so we won't ever be using it.
I am considering Scottish and Irish names (my heritage) for our third bub. And since we haven't named the other two after anyone, it is unlikely that we will do it this time.
Ally
Our baby's name is Elizabeth Honor, which was the Bear's grandmother's name. Everyone called her (ie. his grandmother) 'Honor' and we agreed from the start that we would use that for a middle name but we couldn't agree on the first name to go with it. We weren't going to use Elizabeth as a first name until we thought of shortening it to Beth (obviously she can choose a different nick when she's older if she likes) and we both liked it so after that we agreed to use the whole name.
Ashley John for my 2 yr old son and john is my Dh's family thing the first born ( if a boy) gets John
Andrew Robert for my 2nd son. Robert after my dad
Well my kids names are as follows
Cody William- william is my dh middle name and i really like it as a middle name and cody was the only name we could both agree on and i reeally like it.
Lachlan Andreas- Lachlan was dh choice as i chose cody and Andreas is dh fathers middle name.
Abbie Angela-Grace- i have always love the name Abbie and it was our girl name for both of our boys angela is my middle name and grace we both love and needs to break the A's up a bit:-)
Nikki
Tyler Colin.
'Colin' after dh's uncle who passed away when dh was 12 (after my dh, play fighting with him, told him to 'drop dead'... understandably, dh has alway felt guilty about it).
For the Tyler, dh took my name and his, and played around to see what other name he could come up with, using the letters from our names. I wasn't ever really a big fan of the name- and less so when i realised it actually ryhmes with our last name. The agreement was that dh chose the boy's name, I chose the girls. Once we found out bubs was a boy, I argued (and cried) and begged dh to change his mind. But no go.
So I have effectively shortened it to Ty. I like it, it suits him and... well, it still kinda rhymes, but not so badly as Tyler!
Jaidan-Tyler
Chase Blaze
Ashton Blake
My nephew is Drake Kumaran and my to be neice is Harmony
My step neices and nephews are Arriana, Biem, Doro, Isabelle, Tyra, Nina...
DH and I are both big fans of very conservative, traditional names, with 'correct' (ie the 'normal') spelling. We figure that while our kids may grow up to be rock stars or tattooists, they may also be a magistrate or a CEO and, no matter what, people are going to judge them based on their names, for instance if they apply for a job, they're more likely to get an interview if an employer (who is usually an older, and therefore more traditional) person sees 'Nicole Smith' on a resume rather than 'Shaneikwa-la'Jaede Smith'.
We chose Emily Paige for DD1, no particular reason other than that we liked the sound of it, it goes well with our surname, and it suits a toddler, a primary-school student, a university student, and an elderly woman. It's traditional, pretty, feminine, and rolls off the tongue.
We've chosen Hayley Nicole for DD2 (who is yet to be born), for the same reasons - conventional, feminine, suits a girl of all ages from a baby to a married woman to an elderly person.
We just think it'll be easier for them in the long run to not have to constantly correct the spelling of their names (although you would not believe the amount of illiterates out there who have to ask me whether my name is spelled with 'one 'n' or two?'), repeat the name several times for strangers who have never heard it before, it doesn't require an explanation of whether it's a cultural or familially-significant name, and when they are doing things like applying for jobs or speaking with clients, or sending out letters etc to clients, people won't be judging them based on their names, only on their performance etc.
My 2.5year old daughter's name is CENDRINE - an old French name meaning 'Cinders' (also from Cinderella, though i didn't choose for it's meaning).
I came across the name 10yrs before i had our daughter. It was the name of a Melb based photographer's wife (she was a model at the time).
I told the midwife that delivered her that i thought the name Cendrine sounded like "Send Me A Dream" .. she said she will always carry that beautiful thought with her :D
Cendrine's middle names are ELISE (after my younger sister) ... and ARIANE which DP chose which was almost her 1st name (DP's name starts with "A")!!
Rory Jack - Irish background on DH side plus just loved both names.
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Ava.. umm.. well.. is Richie Sambora's daughters name lol.. plus i love the name and so does DH.
haha i love bon jovi. i tried talking dh into naming the baby jovi if it was a boy, or bonnie for a girl. He flat out refuses. lol. he wouldnt even call our dog one of those names! i was most disappointed lol. I used to work as a kids photographer and once photographed a lil boy named jovi. his dad was a big fan. i thought it was the coolest thing ever! lol
HAHA i LOVE Bon Jovi too. Im due in 8 weeks and AVA is top of our list too. We love Ava Grace but im tempted to have Ava Elizabeth because of Richie ;)
My DS is Blake William...........
We both love the name Blake.......... & William was my FIL middle name, he passed away with Leukimia before my DS was born and it was his first grandson too :crying:
Alexzander David Paul - The spelling of his first name is the original medieval spelling & it's just a name we both liked. David is from my dad & Paul is from DH's dad, a tradition in my family.
Juliette Catherine - Again just because we liked the first name. Catherine is DH's Great Grabdmother's name, we had no idea for a middle name & when FIL suggested it we decided it was perfect.
Aaron picked both names too ;)
This has been an interesting read..
DS - Aiden James.. not sure why Aiden, just DH liked it. I never did, was worried it would get shortened to Aids.. but, went with it. Our mine criteria at this stage was that it had to be a 2 or more syllabel name that couldnt be shortened easily, as we have a one syllabel surname. Middle name James was easier.. DH's middle name, FIL middle name, and my dads middle name. Done the family thing in one hit.
Then, one day, i was at medicare.. and noticed the nice neat formation on my medicare card. DH & I both have 6 letters in our name, middle name starts with J, so, that started the whole criteria thing happening for me. Kids names had to be 5 letters, 2 syllabels, and middle names had to start with J.
When we fell pregnant with #2, for a girl, it was to be Tayah Jane - which was also picked if DS1 was a girl. Tayah, cause we liked it, and Jane is my middle name.
But, its a boy.. so Lewis John. Lewis.. my DH wanted Louie, but, i said, no.. and John is my pa's name, and my brothers name.