Trying to give you baby fever...

PaigeMcC · March 2010

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Trying to give you baby fever... : You're lucky he is joking! MY FI and his family are hardcore scandinavian. He keeps insisting on names like Thor and Lars. (Which are actually growing on me....? *surge of fear*)
Posted by katanne9[/QUOTE]

I know he's joking about most of them but it still scares me...his dad's name is Franciskis Leonardus *someother weird Dutch Name* Maria Hoveling

This will not be happening to my children! lol

PaigeMcC · March 2010

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Trying to give you baby fever... : Also, for whoever it was that said their FI wanted to name their kids after a TV show: my godchildren are named after the TV show Charmed - Piper and Wyatt. :-)
Posted by Acrosthec[/QUOTE]

Not going to lie - I used to LOVE that show.

**Mutley** · March 2010

Names I love that have been vetoed by DH. There are a bunch more that I threw out there but cannot remember. I

Emma
Scarlett
Vivienne

Liam

Basic Lists (one that aren't out or in yet)

Girls Names
Charlotte
Samantha
Brie
Courtney
Eva
Ana

Boys Names
John
Alexander
Gavin
Tyler
Cody
Garrett
Patrick
Blake

I am liking this thread. It is giving me more ideas.

Button5807 · March 2010

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Trying to give you baby fever... : Ooooo...I hadn't thought of that! FI loves Roman and Greek mythology. Hmm..... :-)
Posted by Acrosthec[/QUOTE]

Don't make me beat you up for stealing the names of the children i will probably never have!

Acrosthec · March 2010

Mutley I have a book at my house that I bought when my best friend got pregnant (with what would become our first godchild). It has all kinds of names that I loved underlined in it. I will try to get on here tonight when I get home and give you a list. It'll be long, just as a warning. ;-)

Acrosthec · March 2010

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Trying to give you baby fever... : Don't make me beat you up for stealing the names of the children i will probably never have!
Posted by Button5807[/QUOTE]

LOL

**Mutley** · March 2010

Acro, any 'old' names will be immediately vetoed by DH. He refers to them as bridge lady names. Apparently, I

bridge lady names.

I am hoping that I will wear him down as we have more kids and get to use one of my old lady names. Mwwwhahahaha.

Ana_2985 · March 2010

Mutley - I vote for Ana

Actually I like most of your names though.

We've talked about it a little bit, even though we're still undecided on whether or not we'd like to have kids.

Mostly, we'd like to give our kids family names or names that represent their heritage. I also prefer old-fashioned names over trendy names, but old-fashioned is hot right now so we'll see.

katanne9 · March 2010

Mutley - tell him old lady names are coming back in!

http://nameberry.com/list/247/Geezer-Names-for-Girls

emmyroo · March 2010

In response to whomever was talking about the funny names while subbing... when I was student teaching, my cooperating teacher told about a new student at his wife's school. She was new from Africa and had a name that was pretty unusual, and wasn't pronounced like it looked like it should. They had to get all her teachers together before the first day of school to tell how it was pronounced... something like "Shi-theid" but it was spelled like "Shithead"... the person at immigration must have been having an off day or something.

KD+BC · March 2010

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[QUOTE]In response to whomever was talking about the funny names while subbing... when I was student teaching, my cooperating teacher told about a new student at his wife's school. She was new from Africa and had a name that was pretty unusual, and wasn't pronounced like it looked like it should. They had to get all her teachers together before the first day of school to tell how it was pronounced... something like "Shi-theid" but it was spelled like "Shithead"... the person at immigration must have been having an off day or something.
Posted by emmyroo[/QUOTE]

That's a pretty common urban legend. I've heard it a few times, always different circumstances.

Ana_2985 · March 2010

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Trying to give you baby fever... : That's a pretty common urban legend. I've heard it a few times, always different circumstances.
Posted by KD+BC[/QUOTE]

Agreed. Everyone knows a friend of a friend of a cousin who taught a Shithead or a L-ia (Ladasha). No one has ever produced any proof that it's true.

emmyroo · March 2010

I guess so. I had never heard of that before, but I suppose that wouldn't surprise me if my cooperating teacher took that and made it about his wife!

KD+BC · March 2010

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Trying to give you baby fever... : Agreed. Everyone knows a friend of a friend of a cousin who taught a Shithead or a L-ia (Ladasha). No one has ever produced any proof that it's true.
Posted by Ana_2985[/QUOTE]

The La-a one actually exists!!! I think it probably came about because of the urban legend but I literally had a girl in one of my classes with the name La-a. I was shocked since I had always thought it was fake! Like I said though, I think the legend came first...

Ana_2985 · March 2010

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Trying to give you baby fever... : The La-a one actually exists!!! I think it probably came about because of the urban legend but I literally had a girl in one of my classes with the name La-a. I was shocked since I had always thought it was fake! Like I said though, I think the legend came first...
Posted by KD+BC[/QUOTE]

Haha finally a first-hand account!

StephB1185 · March 2010

My BF insists his first born son will be named after him - and I'm okay with that. We've also talked about our second son being named after both our grandparents.

Now, obviously I know we can't plan if we'll have a girl or boy - but he only ever talks about having boys. He says he doesn't want to have to deal with daughter's BFs (which is funny and cute).
I like the name Anastasia for a girl - and I've thought about giving her my moms first and middle name as a middle name (combing them) - Tarilynn.

KD+BC · March 2010

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Trying to give you baby fever... : Haha finally a first-hand account!
Posted by Ana_2985[/QUOTE]

I rarely bring it up because I know people just won't believe me!

mepanter · March 2010

Yes, we've talked about it.
We're both adament that any name wouldn't be something that is just made up to sound nice...we want meaningful names taken from people/places/things important to us. For example, we've both been very influenced by our fathers. My dad's middle name is "Lee"; his dad's middle name is "Leonardo". So, if we ever have a boy, "Leo" would be an optional name that would honor both of our dads. We'd probably use that as a middle name because neither of us are crazy about it as a first name.
I've always wanted to name a girl Charlotte because that's where I was born and it has familial significance. After mentioning this to boyfriend, he is set on this name because it starts w/ "Ch" and so does his last name, so he wants to nickname (yah, he's already mentioned nicknames) any future daughter "Cheche" (prounounced cheh-chay). I guess it's sort of like a Spanish version of CeCe!
We plan for it to be a good long while before we have kids, but it's nice to know we like the same names.

hetshup · March 2010

FI and I will name our girl Shady Nasty (Sha' Dynasty) or Female ( say it like tamale). Ok not actually, we do have a friend who worked labor and delivery in NC, and those were two real names. Urine was another one. has anyone else read Freakonomics, it has a whole chapter on income/ education levels and child's name. It's pretty interesting.

We do like the name Abram for a boy, and I like Molly for a girl. But we have a good 4-5 years before that's even on the horizon.

zaneopal · March 2010

Mutley, tell DH those old bridge ladies were little babies once.

As for crazy names, my mom was an L+D nurse and then a midwife for many years, and they kept a list of some of the crazier names in the midwifery office:
Gezzikah (Jessica?)
Princess (apparently this and 'Queen' were big in the late 80s)
Divinity
Sharnell
Avalon
Kryztofur & Gynnofur (twins...I think Christopher and Jennifer?)
Lynzy

I wonder how I learned to read properly, spending half my days off from school in that office.

rickylee244 · March 2010

We've talked about it mainly because of his father - For his family (and as I'm told Jewish tradition) its customary to name your children after a recently deceased relative. Hence his father's name is Paul which he hates and goes by his middle name. However it has now turned into the first letter of the name (as is the case with FI and his brother)
To follow tradition we have a number of letters to go by: J, I, & H, but just one name that we both really love.

Girl:
Jacqueline
Not going to happen for some years so we will just wait and see

ekathleen684 · March 2010

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[QUOTE]Acro, any 'old' names will be immediately vetoed by DH. He refers to them as bridge lady names. Apparently, I bridge lady names. I am hoping that I will wear him down as we have more kids and get to use one of my old lady names. Mwwwhahahaha.
Posted by **Mutley**[/QUOTE]

So Agnes and Gertrude are out? .
Doesn't DH know that these old lady names were also baby names at some point?

ekathleen684 · March 2010

I didn't read down to zaneopals comment, Sorry!

BF and I have thrown things around but haven't talked about it seriously. The first boy will have Randall as his middle name since is it BF's, BF's dad, and BF's grandpa's middle name. I have always loved the name Kyle but BF doesn't want a Jr.

I always tell him and my mom that were going to name our kid Colby Jack after my love of cheese. I was denied.

I love the name Madeline! I agree with Mutley about the whole Madelyn/Madeline thing. To me, it's like the mom didn't know how to spell the name she liked so she just sounded it out. BF's cousin actually did this with her baby.

Acrosthec · March 2010

FI has prosecuted a La-a (Ladasha). His office has also prosecuted brothers by the names of Orangejello and Lemonjello (Or-ahnj-el-o, Leh-mahnj-el-o). Yes, that is Orange Jello and Lemon Jello. Parents are f-ed up these days some of them.

Button5807 · March 2010

http://www.snopes.com/racial/language/names.asp

bethsmiles · March 2010

My bf and I know that we want to have kids so we have discussed lots of names. Right now Chloe and Claire are the top 2. He really wants girls and I want boys so hopefully we will get at least one of each (we know we want 3). For boys I really like Jake but he likes Kaden. But we defiantly have alot of time to figure that out

Oh yeah my mom had a patient named vagina once. She originally thought it was a misspelling on the chart or that it was pronounced differently but nope its exactly what it says it is. that was hands down the worst name I had ever heard

bsidebella · March 2010

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[QUOTE]We've talked about it mainly because of his father - For his family (and as I'm told Jewish tradition) its customary to name your children after a recently deceased relative.
Posted by rickylee244[/QUOTE]

I am Jewish and so is my boyfriend, so we both go by this tradition. It doesn't have to be a recently decesed relative - only a relative who is no longer living. To name a baby after a relative who is still alive is very bad luck.

I promised my mother a long time ago I would name my first son in honor of her father. Her father's name was Irving, so my boyfriend and I are going to name our first son Isaac, middle name David after my father. We like the name Isaac because it means "laughter".

We also like the name Gabriel, but we can't use it. We don't have any deceased family members who have a G name.

As for a girl, we've decided on Shoshanna. We both love the movie <em>Inglorious Basterds</em>, and that was the female lead's name (actress Melanie Laurent). It means "lily". Also, 3 out of my 4 paternal great-grandparents had a name starting with S. As a result we have a lot of S-named people on that side of the family!

202987 · March 2010

BF and I actually came up with names after dating a few months-it was just a conversation that took a weird turn.
Boy-Aaron James
Girl-Adelle (or Adele if I win ^_^) Marie
Kids aren't happening for a LONG while, we were just discussing names, then picked them out. It looks lazy because its just an A name + our middle name, but so it goes.

**Mutley** · March 2010

P.S. To those of you who have come up with names with your bf's... Good luck with that. The whole name game changes once you are actually pregnant.

SigKapLily · March 2010

Oohh I love Lillian Grace and Luke Austin!

We always joke about names for our future children...

I've also noticed that there are some really random names for children these days... I currently subbed in a class which had fraternal twin boys and their names were Jack and Daniel... which separate are not bad... but for twins, really? I've also seen a Midori...

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