I like Piper as well, and I don't think either name would be hard for people to pronounce or spell. DH has started this thing where he will be watching a show or a movie and hear a character's name and ask, "what about that for our kid's name?" The other day he was watching the Matrix and asked about Morpheus, Trinity, and some other name of one of the characters. I said no to all of them and would roll my eyes at him because I knew he was joking, but then he asked about Neo and I said I would think about it. And now it has grown on me quite a bit. Would anyone think I was weird for naming my kid that?
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I know a teenager named Ahitonna- pronounced Ahtiana. She told me there are silent letters in her name. I wanted to tell her that her name, in fact, is straight-up spelled wrong.
The stupid benefits department where Bill works refused to accept our marriage license as proof that we got married. He argued with the girl for twenty minutes yesterday until she finally put her supervisor on. He finally relented. I can't believe that they were willing to take a driver's license over a marriage license.
I have no clue why my parents named my sister Allysia (pronounced Alicia) - they're actually fairly traditional people, and no one ever knows how to spell it once they know it's not Alicia, and no one ever knows how to pronounce it when they see it. Poor girl.
Not sure about Neo, but we're leaning towards Tycho as a boy's name (nickname will be Ty). My middle name begins with Ty and is my mother's maiden name. I'm very attached to it and we have a lot of interesting family history, so we wanted to include that somehow.
These are funny. I have one -- I know someone who had a student named La-a. Just go ahead and guess how to pronounce that. Ready??LaDasha. *bangs head on wall*
I want to know why people have no etiquette now a days. Is it that hard?! When I specifically say that we cannot accomodate extra guests and you ADD a flavor of the month to your reply card and thinking I wouldn't notice or was just kidding, don't get upset with me when I nicely tell you that we can't have extra guests when you knew better. my MoH did this. I was expecting a plus one even though I only gave her two seats(one for her and one for her daughter who is the FG) and she rsvped FOUR!!! Her roommate and her mother. I emailed her and she said her roommate was going to be her date. I said i'm sorry but we don't have enough room at the bridal party table plus we invited 20 over what would be considered "comfortable seating". I told her if we got any no's I would let her know and her mom could come(I see her more than her roommate...besides...i don't really like her roommate lol) and I guess she talked to Gypsy or something(I vented to her) and she said she wouldn't bring anybody. But seriously...my MoH?! I am just going to assume she really just has no idea how expensive it is and how tight the guest list really is. Even though I told her that I didn't get to invite a lot of my friends bc of all the family. Besides...I'd rather invite another friend than someone I don't really care for since I didn't get to invite a lot of my friends I want to.Me and David liked the name Dreyken or some sort of spelling so we could nickname him Drake. I also really like Declan or however you spell it. Unfortunately...the first boy HAS to have the initials DWR with the middle name already picked out bc the past like 3 or 4 generations has those initials...which I am not too happy about...I can deal with the middle name...but the initials too?!!? There's only so many good D names...for cereal yo!
Apple, same here. I emailed her last night to let her know and I firmly said that I appreciated her understanding that we could not accommodate extra guests so she couldn't argue about it and this morning she replied saying that it was not a problem. Whew. Thank goodness. She is in the wedding party also and I told her the exact same thing that if we had enough no's then she could bring someone. What bothers me is that we are in our 30's....she is 32 and should know better. She is just absolutely clueless to etiquette, she bought her sister to my shower who is 10 years younger than her and I don't even know her. Sigh....
We haven't really thought of names, but there won't be any juniors in our family. I always laughed at Christmas when my brother would open a gift marked "Dennis" but it was really for my dad, who's name technically is William but goes by Dennis with family and friends
Lauren's story brought up something I've always wondered. Why do parents give their children a certain first name, but go by their middle name instead? Why don't they just make their middle name their first name? If that makes sense... Like my dad's legal name is William Cecil Lastname. But his parents and everyone in the world call him Cecil. I've never heard anyone call him William and he never addresses himself as that. I also had a friend named Elizabeth Nicole and her parents called her Nicole.
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All of the women on my mom's side have names that start with L. The tradition's fate is in my hands... I'm leaning toward stopping it with me since I really like Maddalyn (the second d is optional so far). Mike wants to keep his family tradition where all the men have Michael as a first or middle name and the initials are MMM. I'm okay with that but I only get to help pick ONE name? Stink. So far we really like Maddox.
Stephie, That's my Bill too. He was John William Lastname. I love the name John. His family calls him Billy. I would get confused when we first started emailing because I only knew him as Bill but I started getting emails from John. It was confusing.
Steph - the funny this with my dad is that Dennis isn't even legally his middle name. As the story goes, his mom and dad fought over what to call him, she wanted William and his dad wanted Dennis... well his mom won out, but they never got around to putting Dennis on the birth certificate.
We decided a long time ago that our first child will be named Jason for two reasons: 1. We've both never met a Jason we didn't like--I sometimes feel like people's names match there personality. 2. Jason=Jay's son hehehe
I'm so annoyed when one person ruins it for everyone. Someone in the company was caught taking pictures of docs with their cell phone, so now the company wide policy is that you can't have your cell phone out or on while at your desk. That's crap, I just leave it on vibrate in my desk.
Both my fiance and his brother go by their middle names. My fiance does because he was named after his great-great grandfather, but his parents preferred Franklin over John. His brother does because when he was younger people called him Joey instead of Joseph, and his parents didn't like it so he started going by Graeme.
I have never discussed names with Jeff, ever. Is that weird? It has never occurred to me to do so. However, we do have a lot of friends that have had babies that were SUPER secretive about the names of their unborn children. One of my friends who just had their 2nd child wouldn't even tell me what they were considering AFTER they'd already named him. Btw, his name is William Edward, but they call him Liam. I don't get that either. Why not just name him Liam? Although, it does kind of weird me out when people start calling the unborn baby its name. I think its bad luck. Like "Oh, little Billy is kicking in there..."
Lauren's story brought up something I've always wondered. Why do parents give their children a certain first name, but go by their middle name instead? Why don't they just make their middle name their first name? If that makes sense...ugh.. I know.. me, my older brother, and DH all have always been called by our middle names. DH is a junior though and I'm glad he's gone by his middle name. I don't think I could call him Pledge.
I am so with you on kids' names. In one of the preschools I teach in, there are four Aidens in one class. Each spelled different I think?@! (Aidan, Aiden, Adin, Aden) I have also come across kids named Poo (seriously from Vietnam or Korea I think and they shortened it to Poo - what is going to happen to that kid when they grow up?), Kale (like the vegetable), Arston (one letter away from being a felony), Gorey (Indian but did they not check the definition of the word in America before naming?), Oui (yes pronounced like Wee as in "tinkle" or french for "yes)I only have these kids in years when teasing and taunting hasn't started yet. I really feel for them when they move on to elementary or middle school. That's really like setting them up.When I have kids I am going to have names everyone knows already and can easily spell.
I saw the Ahi Tuna comment but didn't fully appreciate it till I tried to read that name out loud. I laughed :)Once we're married, FI and I will both have the initials AA. We have firmly decided against naming any of our children anything that begins with an A. I know it's popular, but I detest when families name their kids with the same initial, especially when they have a ton of kids (I'm looking at YOU, Dugger family). Also, FI and I have discussed lots of kids names and I'm more than willing to share them with anyone but my sister. It sounds mean, but she really is the type to take one of my names (and she's already in family-production mode) and I'm the type to go ahead and let her, regardless of how I really feel. On the other hand, we won't be ready for kids for several more years, so maybe our tastes will change.
Stealing baby names always reminds me of the 'Friends' episode where Monica lets Rachel take Emma. Such a sweet moment.We're safe from those worries because our son will be John Franklin lastname III, but we'll call him Trey (it's like tres in Spanish, but pronounced uhm, English-like? haha). Our daughter would be my only concern, but their family names so they'd still be important to us nonetheless.
My mom's sister's family is Jerry, Jan, Jerrod, Justin, and Jillian.I had an ex whose family is Jerry, Janice, Jennifer, Jacob, and Jillian.I am against this naming strategy.
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