1. Does your name really give you a sense of identity and who you are as a person?
I feel like it does, my name is Kayla but was suppose to be Dani, not Danielle, just Dani.. Thank you dad for standing your ground. I love being Kayla, but my FML's name is kayla too though HA
2. Would you take a traditional name and spell it funky just so your child can be unique? For instance, Jennifer = Xennypher.
No, i think its stupid, sorry
3. What is the dumbest name you've ever heard? Sissy
4. If you have children or are planning on having children, what names have you considered? If we have a boy his name will be Connor Gregory, a mix of the father's names
1. Does your name really give you a sense of identity and who you are as a person?
First name is Michelle, and I definitely feel like it means something. "one who is like the lord"
2. Would you take a traditional name and spell it funky just so your child can be unique? For instance, Jennifer = Xennypher.
actually this is the story of my FI's life. His name is ELEX, and since we met off the internet, i saw his name before i heard it... and i fell in love with it. I love that its different but not obnoxiously different, and although he hates it and everyone calls him alex, I think it is very unique and cool. He was named after his father though, who he has never been close with. (bad idea)
3. What is the dumbest name you've ever heard? probably watermelonia....
just kidding... lol. you gotta see the youtube video to know what im talking about...
4. If you have children or are planning on having children, what names have you considered? I used to want Jaden Isaiah, and now the whole "aden" name is played out. Jaden, Aiden, Braeden, Kaeden, Shaeden,
now I am thinking of passing on our sons name from "ELEX" but my FI doesnt like the idea as much.
and my grandmother's name is DOLLY no joke. and she is such a doll truly. She is the emy of glamour, very classy, and all around beautiful. However, I was thinking of naming our daughter DALIA and just nicknaming her DOLLY, so she wont hate me (as much)
...and Meaghan's experience with WORLD'S BEST MOM EVAR this morning, I'm a little curious.
1. Does your name really give you a sense of identity and who you are as a person?
2. Would you take a traditional name and spell it funky just so your child can be unique? For instance, Jennifer = Xennypher.
3. What is the dumbest name you've ever heard?
4. If you have children or are planning on having children, what names have you considered?
1. I think that it does in someway. my mom and my aunt were pregnant at the sametime and they both liked the name stephanie and britany and so they agreed that which ever baby was born first got the name stephanie (they were both due arround the same time) i was born first and i am glad britany is so not me
2. hells to the no.
3. my cousin named her daughter story.
4. for boy names i have 3 picked out, Mark Anthony(not after the singer), Justin Primo (FH's middle name is primo and he wants to pass it on and he wants our son to have the same initals as him) and Leo allan named after my grandpa and my dad . for girl names i have two, Meldoy rose after his mom and diana lynn which has a very speical meaning to me.
1. Does your name really give you a sense of identity and who you are as a person? I like the way my name is spelled, K's are better than C's, haha. Identify me though? Probably not.
2. Would you take a traditional name and spell it funky just so your child can be unique? For instance, Jennifer = Xennypher. NEVER. Do that crap with your goldfish, cause it won't have to spend it's WHOLE life explaining why it's parents are retards.
3. What is the dumbest name you've ever heard? "La-a" goes to my Dad's school, I told him not to call her "La Dash Ah" but to call her "La Hyphen Ah" hahaha! that'll show her and her parents. Also, in New Zeland a couple wanted to name their child "123" but the government wouldn't allow it, so they named him "Superman" true story. I also had a teacher who had twins named "Orangejello" and "Lemonjello" pronounced "Or-an-je-lo" and "Le-man-je-lo" that's great parenting right there. How are these kids SERIOUSLY supposed to get a job?
4. If you have children or are planning on having children, what names have you considered? We have for a long time. Annabelle Lee (has been my baby doll names since I was a kid, and I've never stopped loving the name) Lee is also my middle name, and my grandmother's middle name. Annabelle Lee is also a beautiful Edgar Allen Poe poem. And for a boy Tyler Kenneth, Tyler is Fi's bestfriend's name and they were in Iraq together, he will name his first son after my FI, too. Also like Elizabeth Rose, and Hunter Penn.
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1. Does your name really give you a sense of identity and who you are as a person?
My parents wanted both my sister and I to have names that didn't already come with an identity and I guess they succeeded (Sarah & Carol). Although I did get a lot of 'Christmas Carol' growing up, and I have never met another Carol under the age of 50.
2. Would you take a traditional name and spell it funky just so your child can be unique? For instance, Jennifer = Xennypher. No way, maybe a slightly more modern spelling of something (can't think of an example) but I don't want my kid to always have to spell his/her name for people. People always want to add an 'e' to my name, maybe it's cute but...how can you mispell Carol?
3. What is the dumbest name you've ever heard? I work with kids so I've seen a lot of crazy ones! Although, I can only think of one at the moment: Tosh.
4. If you have children or are planning on having children, what names have you considered? FI wants our first son to carry on his and his father's name, James, it's normal so I don't really have a problem with it. We both really like Mckenzie for a girl (or Mackenzie, I can't decide) and I want my future daughter to have my mom's middle name: June. I used to work with a little girl named Amelina...she was the sweetest thing and I really grew to like her name too.
1. Does your name really give you a sense of identity and who you are as a person?
I dont know, I guess. Melissa was the most common name given out the year I was born and there was 4 other Melissas in my class. My mom gave us all greek names, mine means honey-bee, but I wish it was a bit more original.
My sister gave her daughter a very traditional greek name(her hubby is greek too). Eleftheria. But at least she gave her a cute nickname. Effie.
2. Would you take a traditional name and spell it funky just so your child can be unique? For instance, Jennifer = Xennypher.
Absolutely not
3. What is the dumbest name you've ever heard?
All those celebrity names like Pilot Inspektor and Kal-El.
4. If you have children or are planning on having children, what names have you considered?
I like Scarlett for a girl and Tristan or Dominic for a boy.
1. Does your name really give you a sense of identity and who you are as a person?
I think a name does a lot for a personality. My name is Carissa, so I was never able to fade away into a classroom on the first day of school when the teacher was calling role. It forced me to talk to people, so I wasn't shy for long!
2. Would you take a traditional name and spell it funky just so your child can be unique? For instance, Jennifer = Xennypher.
I like spelling names a bit different than the original version... but I do have an open mind since my name is different. Not that different, though.
3. What is the dumbest name you've ever heard?
I work in an infant room, so I've had some ah-mazing ones. The best ones are probably... Diezel or Alessa, pronounced Alyssa... they legally had it changed to Alyssa when she was 3 months because they realized their error.
4. If you have children or are planning on having children, what names have you considered? Rayleigh Love, after Geology class, of course. Rubie after my greatgrandma. We'll call her Rue, or RueBoo and a few boys... Maybe Rhonin, Canan and Drake
In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_snarky-brides_lets-talk-baby-names?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding BoardsForum:17Discussion:c3f87739-a848-4c12-8705-80b32195cee6Post:d887d414-b97a-4f4a-a694-cebfce17b579">Re: Let's talk baby names.</a>: [QUOTE] I also had a teacher who had twins named "Orangejello" and "Lemonjello" pronounced "Or-an-je-lo" and "Le-man-je-lo" that's great parenting right there. How are these kids SERIOUSLY supposed to get a job?\ Posted by krystalxyz[/QUOTE]
OMG... sorry to double post, but my FI's sister used to work as a insurance info taker and she had twin boys on her list with the exact same names! Years later it still isn't old to laugh about.... I hope they are the same twins and there isn't really two dumb people out there who would do this!
1. Does your name really give you a sense of identity and who you are as a person? I like my first name because it doesn't have an easy nickname (I don't really like nicknames) and is easy to spell/pronounce but isn't super popular. I hated my maiden name but my married name is awesome and very memorable.
2. Would you take a traditional name and spell it funky just so your child can be unique? For instance, Jennifer = Xennypher. No. I was a teacher and it was awkward for everyone when a kid had a weirdly spelled name. I had 6 kids (in the same class) with some sort of variation of "Dayshawn" all spelt a different way. Not exaggerating.
3. What is the dumbest name you've ever heard? Brothers: one was "WithGod" and another was "HisLove". Also a few Princesse and Divas
4. If you have children or are planning on having children, what names have you considered? I like classic but unpopular names like Violet, Viola or Olive.
1. Does your name really give you a sense of identity and who you are as a person? Yes. My name is Krista June, and my first name is after my mom, Kristina, and June is a family middle name, there are now 5 generations of women with June as a middle name and I hope my daughter continues the tradition. I do wish that my mom had spelled my name Krysta, and I use that spelling quite often. Most people I know accept my name as Krys over Kris. 2. Would you take a traditional name and spell it funky just so your child can be unique? For instance, Jennifer = Xennypher.I kinda did with my daughter, Helayna June. She is named after my great-grandmother, Helen. I don't like how Helena is pronouced, I like he-LAY-na. We call her Layna for short. 3. What is the dumbest name you've ever heard? Nevaeh. I know so many people how have kids named this, and I still think it's dumb to spell Heaven backwards and use it as a name. I also had an ex who had a daughter named Lilian December. I understand the first name, but the middle name? I just didn't get it. 4. If you have children or are planning on having children, what names have you considered? My childrens' names are Helayna June and Jeremy Martin. FI's daughter's name is Zelda Mae. While pregnant with my daughter, we had thought about Lilith Rayne. We were gonna call her Lily.
1. Does your name really give you a sense of identity and who you are as a person?
nope can't say that i've ever been able to connect to my name. it does not relate to me. i've wanted to change it my whole life and my parents have never been able to understand my pain from it and y i'd want to change it.
2. Would you take a traditional name and spell it funky just so your child can be unique? For instance, Jennifer = Xennypher.
yes and know my son's name is orrin (not spelt that way) but the spelling does have meaning to us. Also i've purposely spelt my nickname wrong for years so people pronounce it correctly, not that it's hard to begin with.
3. What is the dumbest name you've ever heard?
tbh i hate michelle. i no i no it's not an odd name. Oh wait what about D ick! (lol omg i had to edit that) my FFIL's name is richard and everyone calls him d ick can't stand that either.
4. If you have children or are planning on having children, what names have you considered?
we've also considered the names William (not bill) I love the name Orrick but the whole vacuum thing would bug me. fi is determined if we have a girl one day her name will be Naomi or he's got another one picked out that sounds completely stripperish to me
1. Does your name really give you a sense of identity and who you are as a person? Yeah i think so, i used to hate it but i think that's because i was one of 4 Sophies in my school and we were all Sophie B, Sophie T, Sophie H etc etc to identify us and i just wanted to be known by my first name!! It's interesting though when you are certain on a name and when the baby arrives they just go out the window. I was going to be a Katie but when i was born my mum said i didn't look like a Katie. 2. Would you take a traditional name and spell it funky just so your child can be unique? For instance, Jennifer = Xennypher. No, i would perhaps go for a less common spelling of something if it was a common name but i certainly would never make up my own spelling!! 3. What is the dumbest name you've ever heard? I think in the UK we haven't quite been caught by the calling our children really strange things bug yet (some exceptions!) but i hate it when parents don't think about the first name and the last name together. Like at work the other day someone gave me their ID and they were called John Thomas. Ouch... 4. If you have children or are planning on having children, what names have you considered? Middle names are easy, Freddie for my grandpa or Lucie which is a family name. First names i like Tacy or Aimee or Mia or for boys i like Loki or Zak and i quite like Kiefer but everyone says "oh like 24?" .... STFU
1. Does your name really give you a sense of identity and who you are as a person?
eh, not really. Amy is just a simple name. my dad wanted to name me Loretta so I am happy with Amy!!
2. Would you take a traditional name and spell it funky just so your child can be unique? For instance, Jennifer = Xennypher.
I wouldn't go too out there, maybe change like one letter or something (madeline=madelyn) but overall, answer is no
3. What is the dumbest name you've ever heard?
Boss. I heard a mom calling her kid Boss...I was like "seriously? you named your kid Boss?". Melahu'ala (think I spelled it right) this kid in VBS in hawaii, we just called him Mel in general, anything with a La, Sha, Ma, Ja or anything like that added to the beginning with the occasional apostrophe
4. If you have children or are planning on having children, what names have you considered?
I like Beatrix. FI hates it. I also like Ezekiel for a boy and call him Zeke.
1. Does your name really give you a sense of identity and who you are as a person? No
2. Would you take a traditional name and spell it funky just so your child can be unique? For instance, Jennifer = Xennypher. No, that is just stupid, IMO.
3. What is the dumbest name you've ever heard? Snow White
4. If you have children or are planning on having children, what names have you considered? I have a daughter, Paige and if FH and I ever have children I like Jeffery and Sophia. But I'm really bummed because Sophia is so popular right now.
1. Does your name really give you a sense of identity and who you are as a person? I dont know if it really gives me a sense of identity, but I like my name. My name is Amanda Lynn, and my mom always called me mandolin, like the instrument, and I always thought that was the coolest.
2. Would you take a traditional name and spell it funky just so your child can be unique? For instance, Jennifer = Xennypher. No.
3. What is the dumbest name you've ever heard? Shithead, Orangello, and Koiye...I'm not crazy about that one because I think of a coy fish pond.
4. If you have children or are planning on having children, what names have you considered?
For a girl, I like Madison, Marleigh, Peyton, at the moment, but now people are naming their dogs Marleigh, and Madison is becoming popular. I also like Cora, probably as a middle name, because it was my Great-grandmother's name, and my mom wanted to use it, but my dad didn't like it.
I like the name Taylor for either a boy or a girl and I haven't really thought of a lot of boy names, but the middle boy name will be Joseph because it covers all men on both sides of our families
Re: Let's talk baby names.
Sissy
If we have a boy his name will be Connor Gregory, a mix of the father's names
probably watermelonia....
just kidding... lol. you gotta see the youtube video to know what im talking about...
I used to want Jaden Isaiah, and now the whole "aden" name is played out. Jaden, Aiden, Braeden, Kaeden, Shaeden,
now I am thinking of passing on our sons name from "ELEX" but my FI doesnt like the idea as much.
and my grandmother's name is DOLLY no joke. and she is such a doll truly. She is the emy of glamour, very classy, and all around beautiful. However, I was thinking of naming our daughter DALIA and just nicknaming her DOLLY, so she wont hate me (as much)
1. I think that it does in someway. my mom and my aunt were pregnant at the sametime and they both liked the name stephanie and britany and so they agreed that which ever baby was born first got the name stephanie (they were both due arround the same time) i was born first and i am glad britany is so not me
2. hells to the no.
3. my cousin named her daughter story.
4. for boy names i have 3 picked out, Mark Anthony(not after the singer), Justin Primo (FH's middle name is primo and he wants to pass it on and he wants our son to have the same initals as him) and Leo allan named after my grandpa and my dad . for girl names i have two, Meldoy rose after his mom and diana lynn which has a very speical meaning to me.
I dont know, I guess. Melissa was the most common name given out the year I was born and there was 4 other Melissas in my class. My mom gave us all greek names, mine means honey-bee, but I wish it was a bit more original.
My sister gave her daughter a very traditional greek name(her hubby is greek too). Eleftheria. But at least she gave her a cute nickname. Effie.
Absolutely not
All those celebrity names like Pilot Inspektor and Kal-El.
I like Scarlett for a girl and Tristan or Dominic for a boy.
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Rayleigh Love, after Geology class, of course. Rubie after my greatgrandma. We'll call her Rue, or RueBoo
[QUOTE] I also had a teacher who had twins named "Orangejello" and "Lemonjello" pronounced "Or-an-je-lo" and "Le-man-je-lo" that's great parenting right there. How are these kids SERIOUSLY supposed to get a job?\
Posted by krystalxyz[/QUOTE]
OMG... sorry to double post, but my FI's sister used to work as a insurance info taker and she had twin boys on her list with the exact same names! Years later it still isn't old to laugh about.... I hope they are the same twins and there isn't really two dumb people out there who would do this!
I like my first name because it doesn't have an easy nickname (I don't really like nicknames) and is easy to spell/pronounce but isn't super popular. I hated my maiden name but my married name is awesome and very memorable.
No. I was a teacher and it was awkward for everyone when a kid had a weirdly spelled name. I had 6 kids (in the same class) with some sort of variation of "Dayshawn" all spelt a different way. Not exaggerating.
Brothers: one was "WithGod" and another was "HisLove". Also a few Princesse and Divas
2. Would you take a traditional name and spell it funky just so your child can be unique? For instance, Jennifer = Xennypher.I kinda did with my daughter, Helayna June. She is named after my great-grandmother, Helen. I don't like how Helena is pronouced, I like he-LAY-na. We call her Layna for short.
3. What is the dumbest name you've ever heard? Nevaeh. I know so many people how have kids named this, and I still think it's dumb to spell Heaven backwards and use it as a name.
I also had an ex who had a daughter named Lilian December. I understand the first name, but the middle name? I just didn't get it.
4. If you have children or are planning on having children, what names have you considered? My childrens' names are Helayna June and Jeremy Martin. FI's daughter's name is Zelda Mae. While pregnant with my daughter, we had thought about Lilith Rayne. We were gonna call her Lily.
nope can't say that i've ever been able to connect to my name. it does not relate to me. i've wanted to change it my whole life and my parents have never been able to understand my pain from it and y i'd want to change it.
yes and know my son's name is orrin (not spelt that way) but the spelling does have meaning to us. Also i've purposely spelt my nickname wrong for years so people pronounce it correctly, not that it's hard to begin with.
tbh i hate michelle. i no i no it's not an odd name. Oh wait what about D ick! (lol omg i had to edit that) my FFIL's name is richard and everyone calls him d ick can't stand that either.
we've also considered the names William (not bill) I love the name Orrick but the whole vacuum thing would bug me. fi is determined if we have a girl one day her name will be Naomi or he's got another one picked out that sounds completely stripperish to me
Yeah i think so, i used to hate it but i think that's because i was one of 4 Sophies in my school and we were all Sophie B, Sophie T, Sophie H etc etc to identify us and i just wanted to be known by my first name!! It's interesting though when you are certain on a name and when the baby arrives they just go out the window. I was going to be a Katie but when i was born my mum said i didn't look like a Katie.
2. Would you take a traditional name and spell it funky just so your child can be unique? For instance, Jennifer = Xennypher.
No, i would perhaps go for a less common spelling of something if it was a common name but i certainly would never make up my own spelling!!
3. What is the dumbest name you've ever heard?
I think in the UK we haven't quite been caught by the calling our children really strange things bug yet (some exceptions!) but i hate it when parents don't think about the first name and the last name together. Like at work the other day someone gave me their ID and they were called John Thomas. Ouch...
4. If you have children or are planning on having children, what names have you considered?
Middle names are easy, Freddie for my grandpa or Lucie which is a family name.
First names i like Tacy or Aimee or Mia
or for boys i like Loki or Zak and i quite like Kiefer but everyone says "oh like 24?" .... STFU
eh, not really. Amy is just a simple name. my dad wanted to name me Loretta so I am happy with Amy!!
I wouldn't go too out there, maybe change like one letter or something (madeline=madelyn) but overall, answer is no
Boss. I heard a mom calling her kid Boss...I was like "seriously? you named your kid Boss?".
Melahu'ala (think I spelled it right) this kid in VBS in hawaii, we just called him Mel
in general, anything with a La, Sha, Ma, Ja or anything like that added to the beginning with the occasional apostrophe
I like Beatrix. FI hates it. I also like Ezekiel for a boy and call him Zeke.
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I dont know if it really gives me a sense of identity, but I like my name. My name is Amanda Lynn, and my mom always called me mandolin, like the instrument, and I always thought that was the coolest.
No.
Shithead, Orangello, and Koiye...I'm not crazy about that one because I think of a coy fish pond.
For a girl, I like Madison, Marleigh, Peyton, at the moment, but now people are naming their dogs Marleigh, and Madison is becoming popular. I also like Cora, probably as a middle name, because it was my Great-grandmother's name, and my mom wanted to use it, but my dad didn't like it.
I like the name Taylor for either a boy or a girl and I haven't really thought of a lot of boy names, but the middle boy name will be Joseph because it covers all men on both sides of our families